The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-03
Personal and General.

The idea that the Union Pacific intends to
purchase, or at least obtain control Of the Fort
Worth lines, is still insisted on by eastern ex-
changes.
A Boston paper predicts that the Chicago
Burlington & Northern Will be gathered in by
the Chicago, Burlington Quincy Railroad com
pany before January ], and that ce-President
Harris v i'll be made presld INT of the co npany.
The Denver papers are using up considerable
space Al the present time in an effort TO show
that Denver is Of more Importance to the Union
Pacific than Omaha. Under the present and
prospective state of affairs, Salt Lake is worth
more TO the Union Pacific than both Of them
combined
The Northwestern delivered in Chicago re
Gently train load of fruit, which was given re-
markable run across the continent. The North
ern Pacific and connections on the Pacific coast
took 1t from Sacramento to St Paul in less than
seven days and the Northwestern route took it
through from st. Paul to Chicago in thirteen
hours ana fifteen minutes The entire distance
from Sacramento to Chicago was covered in less
than one hundred and eighty hours.
Chief Clerk Patterson, of the Union Pacific
freight office at Denver, has exchanged positions
with Mr.. James Van den Brock, chief clerk Of
the Union Pacific freight department at San
Francisco. Mr. Van den Brock has been suffer
ing with asthma and Mr.. Patterson is afflicted
with hay fever and the change is expected to
benefit both. Had both been as level headed as
railway men usually are, instead of taking the
steps above named, they would have at once
made tracks for Salt Lake.
The Missouri Pacific general passenger de-
partment is preparing handsome time card for
the special train which will carry the conductors
10 the twenty ninth annual convention Of the Old
Reliable Conductors Insurance association at
IN Francisco on the 22d inst This trI AN VIII
run over the Missouri Pacific, Union and South
ern Pacific. G. G. Whitaker, of the Missouri
Pacific is president Of the association. A con
ducto~'" lamp is neatly designed on the front OF
the card. q
The Jaw passed by the Ohio legislature last
winter, requiring each railroad to pay to the
railroad commissioner an annual fee of 81 per
mile for its tracllage within the state, is to be
tested. The Pennsylvania system refuses to
pay the fee which in its case amounts to 81, 400
The Lake Shore comes second on the list at
1889, and the aggregate sum to be paid to the
state will reach about eight thousand dollars
per year. All the roads except the Pennsylvania
have settled with the state railroad commits
siOner
The indianapolis journal says: '"The demur-
rage question is now likely TO come before the
courts which will test the right of RAILROAD com
panies to charge demurrage where a car is de-
tanned too long for unloading. Some three
months ago the Pennsylvania placed on a spur
track at kingan & Co. S q car loaded with coal.
Tor unloading. After it had stood there a few
days the company notified the consignees that
unless ii was unlOaded demurrage would be
charged The car stood tlere sixty days and
during that time several notices, 1t is stated,
we're sent to Kingan s. Co. TO the effect that de-
murrage charges were accruing on the car, and
asking that il be unlOaded. At the end of sixty
DAYS the company hauled the car away and un.
loaded the coal on their own ground. Kingan
s. Co. now threaten TO bring suit for the amount
the operators char yed them for the coal"