The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-28
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
The O. P. aud the COast-General
GIimpses.

Tne Us I. aaQ IAe C0aSC-General
Glimpses.
Mesgre information gathered from
good sources leaves no doubt that the
Union Pacific is still scheming to get .
San Francisco line of its own. Last
week, says an exchange, the company
massed about thirty surveyors, who are
under command of II. Mccartney at
Redd;ng, Oregon, and, as soon as the
weather permits, they will strike out
for the hills. 1t is understood that o
route will be surveyed from Nampa
Idaho, through to southwestern Oregon,
thence to Fall River valley and. taking
a direct course from Redding,
Pacific Coast road at Ukiah, and thus
close the broken link of con-
tinuous line to Frisco. Several things
have happened recently that give coler
and foundation to this scheme. Presi-
dent Donahue, of the North Pacific
Coast road, has Just returned home
from the east, and it Is rumored that
the Union Pacific succeeded in CONSOLE
dating his road with the project. Sur
veyors representing the Union Pacific
have been in the vicinity of Igo, where
there is natural pass connecting this
country with the North Pacific Coast
road. Then, again, this route is sim ply
continuation of the Union Pacific line
from Namps.
The tour just made by vice president
Holcomb through that section indi-
oates that he is figuring on something
being done next year. While the
scheme is not altogether q new one,
these surveying parties are the first
outward evidences that the company
means business.
A TERROR TO sCALPERs.
E. l. McFarran, q member of the
American Ticket Brokers' Association
has been jailed at Augusta for day
and a half on a charge of scalping
tickets in violation of the city special
ordinance. When the exposition was
opened, the city, at the request of the
directors, who wished to secure con-
oessions from the railroads, increased
the cost of licenses of ticket scslpers
from $50 per year to $500 per day. The
scalpers went across the river into
Od1O11Ao dno Jill JuOl1 ny
McFarran, who is New Yorker, was
ton telegraphed that they would look
after him. Judge II. D. D. Twiggs was
employed TO defend him, and he
was acquitted. The defense was that
the license was a debt and non-pay-
ment was not punishable by imprisoa-
mept; also that the suru required made
licenses prohibitory, and therefore was
unconstitutional. This view was sus-
tanned, and scalpers are greatly
chagrined On learning that they could
have done business all along.
THAT EXPRESS WAR.
An active war has lately broken out
between the Wells Fargo. United States
and American Express Companies
which has resulted in a reduction of
about 50 per cent. in express charges
between Chicago and sesboard points.
The railroads are seriously affected by
this war, as the express companies carry
considerable perishabIe freight for
which the railroads compete. The rates
are ordinarily twics as high as by the |
but as the express companies !
give much quicker and safer service |
they secure much of the business, |
such rs butter, eggs and |
poultry. The rate on the latter articles |
to New York was $3.50 per 100 pounds
by express and IS cents by the railroads. |
This rate has now been reduced by the
express companies to IS cents, the same |
as charged by the railroads, and in
consequence the latter are losing the |
dairy product and poultry business.
The rate on these articles to Boston has |
been cut down to 81 per 100 pounds |
against charge of IS cents by the rail-
roads.
BOUGHT THE WRONG TICKET.
II saw striking example the other
day of how careful one needs be in !
purchasing tickets, not only from
scalpers, but from regularly authorized |
agents as we'll" said passenger in the |
Cliff House lobby yesterday. "It was
that of a young lady en- route east from
San Francisco. She had bought her
ticket from scalper, and had failed to |
note that it was designed to carry |
male, and described her as having |
and side whiskers. The re-
suit was the ticket was taken up on the |
second division and she was compelled |
to pay her fare"