The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-01

to all who are in any way cognizant of
the true state of affairs in the .Queen
City,
The most lucid and correct construc-
ton to place on
THE CRIPPLE CREEK WAR
may be evidenced in the following. from
personal observation:
They have dry mines there. Lying
idle does them no damage. The mine
owners have been paying from So to 81
per ton for hauling by wagon. Two
railroads will shortly be in there, and
the latter will haul the same ore at
81 per ton. They won't have long to
wait for these facilities. over this they
are naturally proud, and to hold their
ore for while meant money in their
pockets-see? They were independent
and independence of spirit ofttimes
makes men selfish to a degree. But l
am not advancing the claim that the
mine owners were selfish and the min
ers wholly unselfish. 1 believe that both
sides were to blame in the matter, with
| the preponderance of the blame lying
on the mine owners. The militia" was
never needed in the camp. The gov
ernor was imposed upon. No sooner
had the soldiers arrived there than he
| said to The Herald representative
while the militia has been sent there,
want to say that the same was ac-
complished only through colossal
LYING AND MISREPRESENTATI
| Throughout. 1 held off until they wired
me the sheriff had been killed-lies, all
| lies of the grosSeSt character.
| After the governor recalled the mi
| litia, the Cripple Creek people protested
why? Because every day the troops
remained business was good in that
town. The young militiamen all had
money. and they would spend it there.
The crowds of people who came in to
see how things were, had money, and
would spend it, Add to all this
the fact that the wires would every day
be advertising Cripple Creek through
the nation while they remained, and
you have got the whole snap in nut
she'll There wasn't a time when Sher-
| iff Bowers could not have arrested min
ers on warrants properly served, but
not when placed in the hands of thugs
and gamblers to be served. The miners
wisely retrained from placing them
selves in jeopardy with those charac-
| tiers, as their lives might have been the
forfeit.
| Both the Midland Terminal and the
| Florence and Cripple Creek railway, are
! bending every energy to completion. 1t
| is question which will get in first.
! The tunnel is the only thing holding
! back the Midland. but even if the last
/ to get in, it will not be out much. The
/
minal and for tracks. They are building
a first-class standard gauge, maximum
curvature 16 degrees, and can run
/ through sleeper in. The Florence and
| Cripple Creek road is a narrow gauge,
with a maximum curvature of IS de-
grees. The latter is now being operat-
! ed twenty miles. The former as far
as Midland. My headquarters, when
east of here, are the "old reliable
! American House, at Denver. The new
manager is ]. d. Tanning, of Chicago,
a hotel man of twenty-seven years ex-
perience and an able veteran in every
sense of the word when it comes to
making the travelling public at home.
| The war being made on DenVers i'm
pure water don't affect the American,
as there is an artesian we'll on the
premises.
The sunny SOUTH while yet strug
Cling in the throes of last years de-
preston, bears evidence of speedier re-
! turn to increased business than does
the yet frozen north about Lake Mich
igan's shore. Like Colorado and Utah,
| the people of Texas and Louisiana hail
with delight the new era of traffic OPP
ened up to them by the
GULF LINE,
and are but too eager for reciprocity.
The rail and water route from New
York to Denver via New Orleans by
way of the Gulf line, has already be-
come popular with shippers, both in
the way of rates and time. The people
of Georgetown, Boulder, Silverplume,
and all the mountain towns up there,
claim that the "Gulf'' folks are giving
them a service now never before rem
dered by the Union Pacific, and when
they ask for cars the request is prompt
J ly needed.
| [ am yet wholly at sea as regards
just what interest they hold in the NAM
moth Fortieth street shops in Denver,
but am inclined to believe that it is
considerable and will be passed upon
by the courts in the near future. At
present there is a Gulf master me-
chanic there together with the Union
| Pacific master mechanic and he looks
after Gulf interests. One-half of the
switch engines worked are Union Pa
cific and the other half Gulf.
The shops do the Gulf work, and
charge it all up to cost price, with 10
per cent. added for wear and tear of
machinery. Evidently the Union Pa
cific didn't leave any of the Adams
Special cars to. the Gulf road-though
they could well afford to. Pullman car
'Wanderer'' is used by Receiver Trum-
bull for a private car.
A. ". Oliver, SO we'll and favorably
known here in passenger circles. is the
| city ticket agent in Denver for the
Gulf, and holds forth in a large and
well appointed office on Seventeenth
street in the new block opposite the
Denver News. He is the same genial
hustler as when city ticket agent in
Salt Lake.
The general officers of the Gulf are
located in the Cheeseman block, over
the Denver & Rio Grande ticket office,
and the several floors occupied re-
sound all day with a busy hum.
Fred Will, jr, the general freight
agent, is former Union Pacific man,
and is adapted to the wide field of
work by virtue of a range of expert
ence in freight matters that will net
good returns in this age of rates and
/ competition.
i Frank B. Semple, the new general
passenger agent, is known as a briar,
and accounted formidable opponent
by rivals in the scramble for passenger
business. P. e. Fisher, a young man
of pleasing address, polished demeanor
and sound business qualities, is his
chief clerk.
Frank Trumbull, receiver for the I'm
ion Pacific, Denver & Gulf, is a man in
every way qualified for the position
He is financier of the first water,
shrewd and sharp to a fine finish. A
man of firmness and quick action
easy to approach yet quick to termi-
nate interviews that are not specific in
some way, or that may be foreign to
the hour and occasion. 1 am. told he is
the man whose report on Northern Pa
cific finances sent that system into the
hands of receivers.
WILL REACH OUT IN UTAH.
In reply to a question propounded by
The Herald representative. 'sWill Utah
share thp benefits tO he deriUad fror7,