, 1889-01-11
IN THIRTY DAYS.
What Vice President HoIcomb Says
About Shops.
The Contract Goes and Work Will
Commence at Once.
Several Railway Officials in Town
Yesterday.

A number of prominent railway people
were in Cheyenne yesterday. OF course
all admired the Magic City. and of course
all were called upon by leading citizens and
humble and modest reporters.
Vice President Holcomb, general man
ager for the Union Pacific, was the bright
particular star in the galaxy. He is a
large, pleasant man, easy to approach.
affable, courteous and entertaining. Mr..
Holcomb expressed himself as being
averse to talking shop, but on t~he,subjsct
said this much:
THE Cheyenne people know the con-
ditions of the contract. | am satisfied
hat it will be entered into by the COM
pany, and when the Union Pacific makes
a bargain it sticks to it. Yes, you can
safely say that work will in
thirty DAYS" The reporter could ask
Mr.. Holcomb to say nothing better than
this. The gentleman was driven about
the city and to the source of the water
supply by Ex-Governor Warren and ex-
pressed himself as pleased with everything
in sight. Cheyenne is much more of a
city than the general manage had sup
posed, while its natural advantages are
even greater than have been represented
to the railway.
Mr.. Holcomb's wife and hat lady's sis
ter arrived from the coast on a special
car attached to the belated train. They
accompanied Mr.. Holcomb east. The
vice presidents wife has been quite i'll
for several months, but has been greatly
bene fitted by her trip to Southern Cali
fornia.
General Superintendent L. Dickinson,
who has many friends in Cheyenne
came up from Denver in the afternoon
and left for Omaha at s:45. When the
subject of shops was preached Mr.. Dickin-
son said he was pleased to hear of Chey-
enne's good fortune but referred the re
porter to his superior for particulars. The
superintendent accompanied Mr.. Holcomb
to Denver but remained in that city a few
hours after his chiefs departure.
Bishop Sharp, president of the Utah
Central railway and a shining hight among
the Lords hosts in Mormondom, was in a
car adjoining Mrs. Holcomb's. The
bishop is bright, but uncommunicative.
He seemed to know considerable about
Cheyenne, thought it a great town, and
its claims for Union Pacific shops backed
strongly by geographical location and SUI
%roundings. The bishop is not fond of
newspaper men. Several years ago he
was in Washington lobbying for or against
a measure in which the church was inter
ested, when a reporter with no profess
sional requisite but cheek, asked him how
many wives he had. Sharp nearly col
lapsed with rage, but found tongue to say
that their number was sufficient to pre-
vent him paving attention to other meas
wives. Mr.. Sharp is en- route to Boston
to represent his road at the meeting of
the Union Pacific directors.
r. w. Baxter, assistant superintendent
of the Wyoming division, with head
quarters at Evanston, was a passenger on
the delayed train and remained in town
until this morning. Mr.. Baxter, like all
unpreiudiced persons. speaks of the Chcy-
shop project as a settle ! fact and congrat
uletes the city upon its luck, He says
that this is pre-eminently the point for a
large plant.
j. S. Hickey, master mechanic OF the
Idaho division, and 7. A. Davies, master
mechanic at Laramie, reached the city
with the castbound railway people. Mr..
Hickey left for Denver last night, and
will return to-day.