The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-22


er Trumbull that reflects credit upon
him. ]. w. used to acquit himself just
as creditably when he was general fore
man of the Salt Lake shops. General
Freight Agent Wild, of the Gulf, is the
busiest man on the entire line, though
he will find time to come over here
shortly. His selection Of Hoyt Sher-
man for general agent here, was
good one in every way and we are
privileged to say that there is abso-
lutely naught but good will existing
towards him and the Gulf people by the
''other fellow who didn't get it. If
there be any who fondly hoped other
wise. their error arose from not quite
correctly guaging men and methods.
pointer. The Gulf people have
a great field here, and they will cut
swath in the business that will be
amazingly broad. They will lead
not be lowed and Hoyt Sherman is the
man to pull the strings.
We called upon Governor Waite and
found him in most pleasant frame of
mind over the supreme court decisions
which turned out the dynamite" gang
from the city hall, and precisely the
outcome of what we stated in The
Herald at the early beginning. 1t had
to be. We asked him:
Governor, what about our Utah
sheep coming over into Colorado?" He
replied:
without a clean bill of health
He looked pleasant, and so did The
Herald representative as he remarked:
Guess that is better than we would
do by you folks, for even with clear
bill of health we wouldn't take your
Utes"
And would you believe it the COVER
M hoy 1oi hi al
two chairs and laughed like a school
boy-he enjoyed the thrust. Then he
said: THAT Utah delegate to Congress
is keen, shrewd man, he has proven
treasure to his constituents beyond
doubt"
Our headquarters while east are in
variably a the ''old reliable" American
House, and all advertising matter ex-
pressed to US there will not fail of its
purpose
President Calthron, of the Midway
Terminal, said: I'VE are going right
along with the road, and when we get
into Cripple Creek there will be moth
ing left undone-we carry the mark
with us to a fine finish"
Passenger travel east bound is just
now unusually heavy, while west
bound it is correspondingly light
Freight business has all it can do to
hold its own, all through the inter
mountain country.
The work of rebuilding the Union de-
pot at Denver will probably commence
in about three weeks, the plans will
not be complete much sooner. There
VIII be some changes from the old in
the style of construction, and alto
gether it is expected that the new will
far surpass the old in elegance and ia
cilities for the handling of all business
Some time ago there was incorpo-
IL Denver a oar fol
at S25O,OOO, for the purpose of manufac-
turing emery wheels. Both the process
ana texture was new, and the parties
lntrusted were in no hurry to inform
the public of the nature of the enter
prise, beyond the statement that the
wheels were made from a certain kind
! OF sand" that could be obtained in
! Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and
Utah. The Denver press gulped it down
without questioning, and it remains for
The Herald representative to apprise
| the people of something that will as
! tonish them. This company is today
| manufacturing emery wheels in Den
yer on wayne street. between Twelfth
and Thirteenth, in a building securely
hidden away in the stone yards, and be-
mind freight sheds. A 5-stamp mill is
set up and is crushing the sand" after
| which 1T is ground in a wet mill, then
! roasted over furnace preparatory to
Delng run through selves, numbered
from l to in fineness. The selves are
worked by a rotating eccentric, and
when the sand" is ready for the mold,
1t is mixed with rubber and cement,
1--WE guess at the composition of same)
and no compress is needed-it is ali
done by hand. They have been tested
| already in the railroad shops for grind
ing down engine and car wheels, and do
the work more effectively than does the
old regulation emery wheel, so long in
use. Queer kind of sand you will
! say, and rightly, too. But it isn't of
that order-not until the stamp mill
gets in its work. Would you believe
! that it is no more nor less than agat-
lied petrified wood? Now you have it.
| We have stamped around through the
petrified forests of Arizona not to know
it in the dark, and a carload of it is
nicely hidden away in the new works,
where Denver newspaper men may now
find it. For years and years people
wondered if that stuff could be utilized
in quantity for anything beyond hinges
on the gates of Sheol, and now their
wonder takes on a new phase Otto
Mears is one sof the company, and it is
safe to assume that the whole thing
| originated with him
| RAY RAYMOND.