The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-25
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
A Steamer for the Lake-Railway
Earnings-General.

W. B. DoDDRIDGE, of the Missouri
Pac fic, was 10 S lit Lake yesterday.
On and after to-day the Utah Cen
trail Park City express will leave Salt
Lake at 40.
q. E. HOOPER, general ives tern pas
senger agent Of the Denver & Rio
| Grande, with headquarters at Denver
was in Salt Lake yesterday on periodi-
Cal visit.
IT continues to be asserted that the
Chicago Rock Island q Pacific Com
pany intends TO push work during the
coming winter on an extension from
Liberal, Kan south to Ell Paso. As
this means the construction of some
400 or 800 miles of road, it is an item of
impor ance.
SUPERINTENDENT Ritter, of the Utah
il Nevada, has received letter from
B!ue Mound, Kan, asking permission
to bald q wharf at Garfield Beach
With The idea of running al excursion
steamer on the Lake next summer. The
writer says be will bring out bat
capable OF carrying about 200 people,
and that she will he a swift and hand
some craft.
WHEN the strike on the Chicago, Bur
lington Il Quincy occurred, all the civil
engineers IN the employ of the com
pany surveying the extension of its line
westward were discharged and the work
OF extension suspended. The company
has, however, reinstated its corps of
engineers, and preparations are in pro
gress to extend the Chicago, BurliDg ton
& Quincy lines 800 miles westward to
Wyoming duril g tls next year which
will bring it ca ly to the National
Park.
COMMISSIONER ALBERT FINK is in very
poor he lth. The .distu dances in tt g
trunk line DOL, says the Wall street
NelgS, which have now assumed most
grave propo tons, have made the COM
missioner N re than usually nervous.
He finds that he is no longer capable
of keeping the association intact. We
of giving up his position. A couple of
years ago he would have left his post
ilif he could have retired without bringing
about climax Now he need have
no conjunction, The Pennsylvania
has g Ysn him the opportunity which he
has so long sought, and it is more
than likely that he will take advantage
| of it. We understand that his formal
ISSiS IhtlUu Will
As We said on Friday last: The spirit
of harmony did not prevail to any con
spicuous extent around the Trunk
Line Association rooms yesterday.
mmissiouer Albert Fink was not In
good humor. He was sadly put out
by the capers of the bad boys of his
once happy family. Why he iseven
reported TO have said, Roberts, XII 6
! had ho ~
The report of earnings made by 100
shows a very favorable condition OF
500, 324 ATS last year, an increase oil
$123, 5S3. For the ten months ending
October 81, ninety-seven roads earned
$244 33I, IA, against S237 $50 $50, an IL,
crease of Sc. 8O1 ,694. The road:
this year had the advantage O
an extra working day, the faontl
having contained one less SUNDAY
than October, 1887, and that, OF course
has oten of considerable help in RS SIM
the totals; but, with that exception
conditions and circumstances havr
gen erally been against the present year
In the first place, it must be noted tina
the comparison is with unusually heavy
figures. The gain for October last yea
was much greater than for September
In fact, it was the best result reached
since the previous March, ant
amounted to over So, 500 600 Moreover
there had been a considerable gain il
the same month in the year preceding
1856, aud small gain even in 1885, 81
that the present increase follows sue
cessive gains in the previous three
years, the improvement in some o
these years having bseu very marked
The truth IS, SO far as statements re-
ce,ved are q guide, October has been :
Egooa mouth in all the years of the cur
rent decade, with one exception.