The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-21
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
Brief Cuttings Gathered from
\ Various Sources.
EXTENSIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS.
Cameron on the Union Pacific EItensiOn-RiO
Grande Western Progress Miscellaneous
Mites Of Interest.

The Chicago g. Northwestern Will occupy
handsome quarters on the third floor OF
the Progress building after January l.
Superintendent Bancroft is still out OF
the line looking after and rushing as much
as possible the broadening of the Rio
Grande Westerns gauge to Green River.
Union Pacific and Oregon Short Line
stocks have experienced notable advance
on the market.
A contract has been awarded by the U.
P. road for 40 box cars, twenty three
stock, six furniture and nine fruit cars.
The improvements at the Rio Grande
Western yards are still going on. The
depot has just received the first coat of
green paint and the remodeling of the inter
ior is now in progress. The addition to the
freight depot has been commenced and the
sides have been boarded up. This addition
is 1872 feet long, which, in addition to the
old building, will make depot about two
hundred and fifty feet in length, giving
ample room to handle their rapidly increas-
ing business.
%Chief of Construction Cameron, of the
Union Pacific, returned yesterday from
Utah, where he has been TO start the ex-
tension toward Los Angeles. Utah." he
says, lis on the eve OF a rafting boom
The history of Colorado ten years ago will
be repeated The Utah Central and the
holding the ground while the country has
been growing up around them and needing
more roads. Somebody will go in there
and build them. VIII our extension of the
Colorado Central toward Los Angeles
meet the want: Only partially. 1t is just
part of the development that is needed.
believe that there will be mile of road
built in Utah for every day of the next 500
days after the lst of January He said
that about next midsummer the new extern
sion of the Union Pacific to the Pacific
coast would be completed to point on the
Nevada line. There is no place where the
road will stop, but town will be started
there by the road.-Omaha WOrld-Herdld.
An Omaha exchange says: General
manager Cumming, of the Union Pacific
who retires on January l, will remain at
Salt Lake, making that city his home, and
1t is said Will manage large enterprise.
General Manager Ressiquie has gone to
Wisconsin to visit at his old home before
going to Salt Lake"
Published interviews with President
Moffat of the Denver q Rio Grarde rail
road, represent him as outlining very
progre ssive policy for his road. Three mil
lion dollars will be expended in broadening
tbs gauge Of the line between Canon city
md Grand Junction, including the line to
Eeadvllle, and over one million dollars Will
gov gauge equipment will be continued on
lines to Durango and the San Juan, and
over the Marshall pass. The contract for
the Acequia cutoff will be let in the spring.
It will require year to finish the short
line, but the broadening of the guage to-
ward the west will be pushed at once
Work has begun on the Tennessee pass tun-
mel, whereby the Rio Grande will shorten
the distance between Leadville and Red
Cliff about five miles. The tunnel will be
$500 feet long.
Judge Smith, in the Superior court at
Americas, Ca, has decided that when
narrow-gauge road is TO be changed into
broad-gauge that the company will have to
arrange anew for damages with property
owners all along the line. The decision
grew out of an injunction asked for against
the Savannah, Americas & Montgomery
road changing to broad gauge. Judge Smith
made the injunction permanent. There are
a dozen narrow-gauge roads in that state
which will be affected by that decision.