The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-28
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
Three Thousand Sheep Loaded
by the Utah Central.
SOME REPORTED CHANGES.
Tintic Ore Shipments-Build ding Stone
From Red Butte-The ID. s. II.
g. W. Wreck.

A SPECIAL train leaves for Tintic this
morning at o'clock.
TWELVE carloads of ore came in from
Tintic yesterday via the Salt Lake &
Western.
SUPERINTENDENT SHARP and Chief
Clerk Macintosh have returned from
their flying trip to Milford.
The Utah Genital will not receive
freight on Thursday, and the general
offices of the company will be closed.
SIX carloads of building stone are
daily being brought from Red Butte
Canyon by the Salt Lake & Fort Doug
las
ALEX. MITCHELL of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul, left last night &C
companied by his wife, for Thanks
giving jaunt to Milwaukee and Chicago.
THE Utah Central people loaded 8 600
sheep at Payson yesterday. Tho NUT
tons are bound for the Chicago markets,
and they will soon grace the tables of
the epicures of that city.
1.-THE individual who asserts that the
D. & r. G. Western has already been
absorbed by the Denver & Rio Grande
proper, is most unmItigated ass, said
railroad man yesterday.
THOMAS BURBAcK, general manager Of
the Sanpete Valley Railroad, left last
night for the east, to meet his wife who
is on her way home from New York,
where she has been visiting.
ELECTRICITY as a motor continues to
make rapid progress. There are now
in operation IT'S miles of electric street
railways with 80 cars, and over $50
miles, which will employ 247 cars more,
are noted as projected.
In railway circles it is now init
mated that the putting on of the through
train from Omaha to San Francisco can
have but one effect, and that is to COM
pei the roads operated east of the river
to follow the example set them by the
Union Pacific and Central Pacific. All
OF which means that it will not be many
moons ere through vestibule trains will
be running from the Atlantic to the Pa
ciic.
AFTER a long delay, the Raitw1y ga
zette has concluded that there is some
thing besides idle r1mors in the reports
sent out concerning the Salt Lake Val
ley Il Eastern, and says: 1T is asserted
that the mysteriously proposed line be-
tween Salt Lake City, Utah, and Sioux
City, Ia, about which so much interest
has. teen excited, is backed by ampe
capital and will be completed within
twenty months, forming a line much
shorter than the Union Pacific and with
more favorable grades. The Central
Pacific and Illinois Central Companies
are credited with being back of this
very important scheme, about which
some detaiie information will be given
next week."
The Denver & Rio Grande Western
due in this city at o'clock did not ar
rive until midnight, owing to.a collision
near Colorado Springs between 1.-THE
Denver & Rio Grande express and the
Rock Island, both of which roads use
the same track. Both engines are a
total wreck. The baggage and mail
cars bound for Salt Lake were burned
up with their entire contents, the fire
originating from the the stove. Only
two men were kille but the passengers
were all more or less injured or badly
shaken up, excepting those in the
sleeper which was not deraiIed. The
Pullman and one of the passenger
coaches to which was added q couple of
new cars, composed the train after the
wreck was cleared away. The passen-
ger coach which arrived in this city
last night showed unmistakeable EVIL
dence of rough usage, some of the seats
were broken. the car was despatched
with blood and presented used up"
generally.
RAILWAY CHANGES.
Elijah Smith. PRESIDENT of the Oregon
Railway & Navigation Company, w.
II. Holcombe, general manager of the
same company and the new vice. presi-
dent of the Union Pacific road, and
General Passenger Agent Tebbitts, of
the latter road, are expected in this city
next Sunday.
Holcombe is reported to be contem-
plating a number of changes in the
Union Pacific offices. He is a man who
with a bound has come into great
prominence in transoontinental circles.
Not over three years ago he was the
receiver of the Iowa Central Railroad,
small concern. Eventually it was alb
sorbed by the Burlington Company,
friendly with the late T. ]. Potter, then
general manager of the Burlington and
the most prominent railway manager
in the west.
When Potter was induced by the offer
ing of princely salary to manage the
Union Pacific road two years ago, he
made Holcombe general manager of the
Company, which is an ad-
junct of the Union Pacific. In that po-
siiion he distinguished himself in fight
against the Northern Pacific road for
right of way across the Indian reser7a-
tions in northwestern Idaho. The Nav
CATION Company desired to extend its
road into that country, and the North
ern Pacific objected to having it as
competitor. Holcombe came out ahead.
In the meantime Potter did, and
Charles Francis Adams and the Union
Pacific directors named Holcombe
few weeks ago as Po:ter's successor.
He still retains his position as Gen.
eral Manager of the Navigation Com
pany, and has just appointed Edward
Buckingham as his assistant in that
position. The next move ne is credited
with will be the appointment of Ben
ianin Campbell. general freight
agent of the Navigation Company. to
the same position on the Union Pacific
road, to take j. A Mcnroe's place.
The latter recently married very