The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-27

cars in all, attached to which was
special car coll" with Superintendent
Calvin and family, and st. Louis &
South Western car No. "1'' with Cen
eral Superintendent J. A. Edison and
family, who have been doing the north
and northwest, and visiting with Mr..
Calvin at Pocatello, they being old
friends and both on the Union Pacific
together in early days. A Herald re-
porter talked with General Superintend-
ent Edison in his private car between
Ogden and this city, and found him the
same pleasant and affable gentleman IS
when on the Union Pacific twenty years
ago, though he is now in charge Of the
big Cotton Belt" route, extending from
Cairo, Ills, to GAINESVILLE, Tex, with
numerous branches throughout the diff
ferent states. Located in the Lone
Star" state. he is thoroughly convers-
ant with it's industries and politics, and
on this score said:
so far, business on the Cotton Belt''
has not been above the average, but
in a little while the cotton crop will
commence moving, and that means
much to our road. This year the cot
ton crop is not only excellent, but it is
far ahead Of any season for the past
two years. And the cotton acreage is
much greater than formerly-it has in
creased fully Is per cent. while the
farmers down in that country are every
year planting more and more grain.
Aside from an increasing cotton pro-
duction, there is also an increase of the
different grains, and all this speaks
volumes in the way of increased traffic
for the roads and prosperity to the peo-
pie as we'll. The southerners are now
adopting the same farming methods as
those in use up north, and the results
are more satisfactory every year.
Another thing. The Cotton grower
this season will not hold his yield over
as has been done so extensively in
former years; he will market it when
it is ready. Again, 1 may say that
there are not the number of mort
has been in by-gone years. and the
people are getting more and more out
OF debt. An instance of the mag
nitude of cotton production in
the south, is truly very re-
freshing. King Cotton, down there,
is indeed king, as so much cotton
is just as good as so much gold to the
producer and it never is a drug-it al
ways goes. AS to the amount of this
years crop down with us, it will run
beyond 100000 bales, as against $780,
900 bales last season, healthy and
increase, you will observe"
Did the recent strike affect your
road to any extent?'
mo: not when we consider how
some of our neighbors were bothered,
though at some points we were incOn-
venienced for time. It didn't amount
to much, as those of our men who en-
gagged in it were mainly laborers, and
not directly in the transportation SER
vice. with few exceptions"
What is the aspect of the political
field down. there at this timer"
We'll. when I left, more than two
weeks agos politics had then commence
ed to liven up and no doubt is still liv-
ening. Down there the work is all
before the nominations. for after they
are made there is little or no need to
go about stumping the country-it's as
good as settled. think Culbertson
will be nominated for governor, and
if so. will. of course, be elected. He is
a young man, bright and of good eX-
ecutive ability to start out with"
Mr.. Edison and Mr.. Calvin with their
families. will run on over here today
and go out to Garfield to have dip
in the great lake, and the former eX-
poets to get home again by the 5th of
September.
MR.. KNAPP HAS RETURNED.
Superintendent Knapp, of the South
ern Pacific, returned from his California
trip yesterday, and when accosted by
Herald reporter, said:
Just got back-yes, sir. Business?
Fairly rushing over the Southern Pa
cific, and l want to tell you that even
now we anticipate a. further increase in
fruit shipments. We know that it is
coming, and we are preparing for it.
Right now we have thirty-one freight
crews between Ogden and Carlin, and
they are keeping the rails hot. In your
statement that we were getting twelve
Union Pacific engines, you were correct,
only we havnit been able to get more
than eight of them yet"