The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-25
In RAILWAY CIRCLES.
The Union Pacific Adding Largely
to Its Equipment.
A LINE TO THE NATIONAL PARK
The Wyoming, Salt Lake & California Grade
Railway Earnings-The Pixies Peak
Line-General News.

The gross earnings of the Atchison, To
peka & Santa F'e railroad for July wer,
81 SIS, 500, decrease from the same month
last year of Sl70,739.
The number of electric railways il
America is now sixty nine, operating 34'
miles of road. A large number more ar
either projected or under construction.
Railroad earnings continue to show gain
over similar periods last year. The crops
will doubtless yield larger and larger ton
mage from this time to the end of the year
The members of the Sixteenth ward in
dulge in their annual excursion to GARFIELD
Beach on Wednesday next, when they vii
be pleased to have their friends accompany
them.
Governor Larabee, of Iowa, has issued ar
order directing all railroads of Iowa to re
port names of all their stockholders
amount of stock held by each, salaries paiC
to general officers, and the mileage tickets
issued without compensation.
Mr.. John h Ward and o. D. Marx in
form US that they have taken the contract
for grading about 26 miles of the new
Salt Lake, Wyoming & California railroad
that portion extending from Evanston tC
the southwest corner of the county. The
work will likely begin in about ten days.
Chieftdin.
General Manager Smith, of the Rio
Grande says the West Cliff branch will
not be abandoned. All the same no effort
is being made to rebuild it, and prom
inent officials are authority for the
statement that no effort will be
made in that direction this year or next
either, unless they are compelled. This
branch has never paid running expenses,
and the longer it remains idle the better of
the company will be.
The plans f.. the new Union depot to be
erected at Omaha were shown to the public
recently. The principal projectors are the
Union Pacific and the Burlington compan-
les, but the intention is to allow all the
Iowa lines access on a rental basis. The
building viii be 46S feet in length, DDS feet
wide, and the estimated cost is 81 500, 600.
The roof is of Gothic design, and its main
spire will measure 200 feet from the ground
10 the top Iron, stone and pressed brick
viii constitute the building material.
The unwarranted attack of the Chestnut
upon W. w. Ritter was a subject for gen
eral discussion in railway circles yester-
day. The idea of the respectable element
was summed up as follows: "Mr. Ritter has
been in the employ of the Union Pacific for
ten or twelve years past. During that time
the company has had ample opportunity to
discover whether or not he possessed abil,
ity enough to make good superintendent
of the Utah division The company seemed
to think he had the ability, and all the raw
ings of disappointed applicants and the
idiocy of the Chestnut's blazer will have not
the slightest weight in the matter
Within the past five months the Union
Pacific road has added to its equipments
over four thousand cars, and is contem
plating the purchase of still more. The
regular average of good roads is five cars
per mile. Last year that of the Union
Pacific was two and half, but at present
the average is three and one-half. a prom
inent official said that had the road owned
or controlled more cars last year the bust
ness or transporting corn alone would have
been at least 10 per cent greater. Present
indications are that the corn crop and
cattle shipments this year will be immense,
and better facilities for handling will be
provided.