The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-04
Personal and General.

The Union Pacific will soon receive ten
new broad gauge coaches for the Colorado
lines, ana these will be supplemented by
fifteen harrow gauge coaches rom tie
Leavenwolt tn and Utah Northern branches.
The road has been greatly taxed o. late to
handle the enormous passenger business
out Of Denver and the new equipments
viii relieve the strain.
The Louisville and Nashville company
has sold =, 100000 OF its new consolidated
per cent ponds to syndicate. The total
authorized issue Of these bonds viii be So,
900, 900. OF these 81 600, 600 will be re-
served to retire maturing bonds The
balance, including the 81, goo, 900 just sold,
will be used for terminals, improvements
and beta rments.
The Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad
people are not disturbed over the rumort d
parallel line from Chicago 10 Birmingham,
Ala. The report Of such project doubt
less gccw out of the fact that it is proposed
to extend the Chicago and Ohio river road
(the Old Danville, Olney and Ohio river
roaG) further north, and pos sibly south to
the Ohio river.
One of the Vanderbilt officials in Chi
cpgo says about the Street conviction: st
is disgrace 70 the road and to everybody
connected with the case. Arthur Street
ma &c the cut rate on Counseman 81 Go. S
shipments under orders from his Superiors.
| Why, when the general freight agent or
qers subordinate to cut rate he does not
| issue a general order, or even put his in
structions in writing; he simply calls his
man into his Office and tells him: She here,
we are getting done up. You must get
some Of this freight that is going by other
lines. If necessary, take the course that
will bring it to our road. If you cut a rate
do not want to know about officially, and
you must not get caught board OF
trade investigation committee caught
| Street on the CounSelman deal, and he is
suffering for obeying orders which, had he
ignored, would have resuleed in his dismis-
sal.''
The Rdilpdy Age says: "In the midst of
| the hot season it seems very strange to
read that some of the side tracks of the
! Central Pacific railroad in the Sierras are
still covered with snow, and that as late as
the middle of June rotary snow-plow was
at work clearing off hard, packed drifts
| from to q feet deep. 1t is said that in the
mountain gulcHes along the road snow still
remains as much as so feet deep.n
The Erieis to be sued for damages aggre
eating Sl50.000 on. account of injury Il
property sustained by people in Elmira dur
ing the flood of year ago. The theor,
on which the actions are to be brought Il
that the railroad is responsible for the dam
age done because it unlawfully stopped VI
the culverts under the roadbed and formet
dam, which held the water back on The
people.
The New York Daily Stakeholder, tn
semi-official organ of Mr.. Gould, says
''Much is said as to combination of som
sortbetween Missouri Pacific and Atchison
1t is undoubtedly true that these two grea
systems are working toward closer an
more friendly relations-a kind of reciprC
city of traffic interests; but as to an
change in the status of ownership, or as
any prospects of merging the two proper
ties under one management, nothing Of tn
kind is incontemplation.'