Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-01-22
RAILROAD JoTTINGS.
News Items Picked Up Around the
General Ofticcs.

News Items Picked Up Around the
General Oficcs.
.'fhls Is genuine Old fashioned winter
weather. isn't lD' exclaimed Assistant
General Freight Agent Rose OF the Chi
eago h West Michigan railroad system,
Yesterday, as he besmed geniaily out
over The bleak prospect OF snow covered
buildings which stretches away south
from the window OF ms office. ''If THIS
holds or few weeks longer II will put
wagon load OF dollars into Our peck
cts. The snow enables all the little
baekwoods farmers To haul their few
loads OF logs or their few IL ads of wood.
bark or whatever else they have TO
sell. to market, and the money they re-
celye IN return goes for merchandise
they might otherwise have To do with
out largely. Their logs and bark and
wood must nearly all be shipped over
the railroad, sooner or later, IN some
form or other. and the additional mer-
chandise must be shipped back. The
amounts in individual cases would be
Very small, but when you come TO fig-
ure that there are something like zoo
stations on our lines and that there are
hundreds OF farmers tributary TO each
station, you can see that the aggregate
makes something handsome. 1t gives
US lot OF local freight and local freight
helps out immensely"
The G. X. Il /. has a system of main
tanning and improving its trackage, by
giving annual cash prizes to section
torenen fer the best kept sections and
the greatest Improvement in sections.
The prizes are $40 for first and S25 for
accnnd aud fnr hn
have been awarded as follows: For
condition Of track, main line, south of
Cadillac, NJ. j. Murray OF section 81,
ton SO, Mill Greek, second. For i'm
provement, main line. south OF Csdl-
lac, Julius Allies of section 10. Reed
City, first. and +. Brickey of section 4s,
Paris, second. For condition of track,
krussell Of section II, Petoskey, first,
and Fred Miller of section ~, Elmirs,
second. For improvement, main line.
| north of Cadillac, Nicholas Lanka of
section 80. Missaukee Junction, first,
| and Fred Grams of section 80. Pelston,
second. For yard improvement, main
line, Nicholas Drew, Big Rapids, tifst.
For Improvement, Muskegon branch,
DiOOAS vi stCtlOu Ib1NClDa, ulo ",
and TIM Shine of section 2, Herrington,
second. For best conditioned section
on any branch, Arend Witkop of Sec
ton l, Walton, Traverse City branch.
first. For improvement, any branch,
A. A. Bowman Of section 3, Mayfield,
Traverse City branch, first.
The new union depot of the Grand
Rapids & Indiana and the Flint & Pere
Marquette roads at Reed City. one of
the handsomest depot buildings of its
class in Michigan. Will be completed and
ready for occupancy next Thursday.
The G.. X. & |. is cutting ice at Rome
City for its own supply, and has sent a
man to Cadillac to make arrangements
to begin cutting there. The company
annually puts up at these points abo ut
5000 tons.
The G.. X. & |. is building seven spurs
or side tracks At various points along
the northern division, ranging from q
mile IN lengta down, for the accomno-
dation of extensive freight shippers.
General Manager Head and party
are now en- route from Mexico City to
Florida and the Gulf coast. where they
will visit several cities and places Of in
terest before returning home.
DIR. q. X. Johnson. chief of the sur
gical staff of the G.. X. & I. IL spending
. week or two in Philadelphia and the
east. and DR.. j. B. Grlswoid is taking
his place.
The Offices of Superintendent Stinson
of the q. X. & /. are being fitted with
new carpets and otherwise extensively
renovated and re-arranged.
Chief Engineer Johnson of the G.. T..
Il L. is attending n meeting OF the nat
ional association of railroad engineers
in Philadelphia.
The G.. X. 4 /. has Is 900 900 feet of
logs lying at station points along the
northern division, waiting to be moved.