The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-12
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
The Salt Lake & Sioux City--The D. & B. G. WIS
Gauge--The Nevada Route.

city and Salt Lake, arrived IN the city this
morning, and will at once establish Office
headquarters and put matters in shape to
begin early work on the line. In the party
are Donald Mclean, general manager Of the
Wyoming improvement company, that is tc
do the construction work; E. E. Gedney,
president of the North River bank Of New
York and vice-president of the improve
ment company, and e. B. Willard, the at
tOrney for the company. In an interview
MIR. Gedney said that he came here to assist
General Manager Mclean in letting the
contracts for the construction of the road
He said that the financial arrangements
were all completed, and that there only re
manned such preliminary work on the
ground as securing right of way through
certain sections before the active work OF
construction would commence That the line
will be pushed on to completion
there is not the remoteSt doubt. The
company has kept its affairs from the pub
lie pending the completion of certain fnan
cial arrangements, but now this has been al
arranged, and the name OF Francis o.
French, president of the Manhattan Trust
company, of New York, stands as a guar
anty of the excellent financial backing that
the company has behind it. New York
capitalists have pledged 81 ;000, 600 to the en-.
pIlbC anu NlSJ llllICuS nav SOU-
scribed s400, 600 additional, to which % per
c mt. has been paid into the Sioux National
bank of this city as trustee. The greater
part Of the right of way has been secured
for which over $500 has already been
expended.
The line for which preliminary survey
was made last season, takes an almost due
westerly course from this city, veering
slightly to the south and striking the North
Platte river near Fort Laramie. 1t follows
the North Platte and Sweetwater valleys
and crosses the continental divide at the
old South Pass. 1t crosses the Green river
not far from the mouth Of. the Big Sandy
The line passes the Wasatch range at the
headwaters of the Ogden river and thence
follows the Ogden river and anon to Ogden.
Going west there will be no grade heavier
than tifty-three feet to the mile, and this at
only some eight or ten points in the whole
distance. From Ogden east there are two
places where the grade is eighty feet to the
mile, but at both points the total distance
will not exceed sixteen miles. The line
will actually be 769 miles shorter tn any
road between Chicago and San Francisco,
but adding this TO the difference in grad
ents, makes it in reality 1926 miles shorter
than any other road.
TIE ROUTE THROUGH NEVADA.
The Reese River RereiUs insists that if the
Salt Lake 81 Los Angeles railway desires
feeders through Nevada, and seeks good
support in that state, it must be run near
Austin, as, south of there, there is no in
ducement for any road. 1--WE are here,n il
says, land have the mineral section, and the
road that builds first will get the benefit"
BUFPRT sLKBPKRs ON THB UNION PACIFIC.
On and after March the Union Pacific
will run buffet sleepers on all regular over
land trains between Omaha and Kansas
City and Ogden, Sacramento, San Fran
cisco and Portland. Lunch will be served
sleeping car passengers in sleepers. These
buffet cars are the latest pattern Pullman
vestibule sleeping cars, equipped with every
modern convenience.
Personal AND GENERAL.
Samples of Utah and Idaho potatoes are
on exhibition side by side in the Union Pa
cific window. The Utah article leads, how
ever
F. F. Eccles, formerly of this city, but
now located in San Franciso arriJ ed in
Salt Lake on Saturday. Ms Tcc'Hs &C
companied him.
On account of the rough condition of the
road from terminus to Park city, the Salt
Lake & Fort Douglas railway viii discon-
tinue the Post train until further notice. y
Five or six tents are now located near
Spencer s and grading has commenced near
Black Rock. This is supposed to be the
first move of the Salt Lake. Nevada & Cal
ifornia railway.
A Union Pacific engineer went down to
Eureka yesterday, on business connected
Win the building of the spur to this famous
mining camp. 1t will not be many moons
now ere construction is ordered begun.
The free pass abuse has obtained such
hold on the Ohio legislature that the house
chaplain felt called upon to pray, recently:
''Oh, Lord, teach these members to rcmem-
Der and to know that there are no free pas
ses to heaven.
The Rock Island and Rio Grande joint
tourist business between Chicago and
Ogden seems to be an established fact. The
cars will be equipped with bedding in full
by both companies and a transfer will be
made at Pueblo. It is not decided whether
the tourist cars will be run daily or not.
The Denver, Rio Grande & Western rail
WY has placed with the North Chicago
rolling mills an order for the first lot Of
heavy steel rails, in furtherance of their
plans to widen the gauge and thereby fur
nish neutral connection from Colorado to
Salt Lake city and Ogden, free and equal
terms to all lines east and west of the Rocky
and of uniform gauge with them.
INdl11 ulCL1 uOuDO IL luC dLlCLluCu luGeI-
state commerce law will have an ap-
preciable effect on freight manipulations.
Some Of the thread-bar schemes they
think may be discarded, but others will be
adopted which will as effectually muzzle
the operation Of the law. All express them
selves as pleased with the amendment,
however, especially as it makes the shipper
equally liable with the transportation com
pIny.
The Wabash Western circular to employees
warning them against visits to pool rooms,
etc, cannot be considered a singular docu-
ment. The Cincinnati, Wabash & Michi-
gan forbids drinking, either on or off duty,
visiting pool or billiard rooms or resorts Of
ill-repute, and positively fOrbids swearing
under any circumstances. A New England
road prescribes regulations for clean linen
and requires employees to battle at least
once week.
An improved headlight for locomotives
has an adjustment which allows the en-
gineer to conveniently direct the light, as
he may desire, to various points of the line.
The lantern is supported on a frame or
platform, which has a movement to right or
left about vertical axis, and also up or
down by the same means, the operating
mechanism leading back to the cab, so as to
be within easy reach of the engineer. He
is enabled, by this arrangement, to examine
dangerous or doubtful parts Of the road,
and in stormy weather to turn the light
upon threatening trees or masses of earth
or rock upon either side, and which are
liable to fall.
THE BUS AND TRANSFER BUSINESS
Of Salt Lake City is now conducted by the
Grant Bros. Company. We meet all trains
and run to all hotels. Best livery, carriage
and horse service. ORDER CARRIAGE PROM
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