The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-18
Railway Notes.

Wade Hampton, United nj Stalks rail- rail,
soon.
President George Q. Cannon. of the
Utah company, is expected home on
Friday.
Assistant Superintendent O'Neal, OF
the Wyoming division Of the Union
Pacific. is in town.
Theodore T. Meyers, representing
the ST. Louis capitalists who are inter
ested in building a road through to the
coast, will return from the south this
evening or tomorrow.
dr. R. L Hinckley, heretofore with
the Chicago & Erie, has been ap-
pointed chief rate clerk of the general
passenger department of the Colorado
Midland, at Denver. Colo.
The office of general baggage agent
Of the Union Pacific, Denver &Nlult,
which has been held by Mr.. H n.
Funk, has been abolished and
business will be transacted through
the general passenger department
Mr. Richmond Dean, for many years
assistant to Superintendent Garcelon,
OF the Pullman company at Chicago,
has been appointed secretary to Vice
President and General Manager Purdy,
of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, with
headquarters in st. Louis.
The Pullman company is building six
vestibuled sleeping cars, two dining
cars, four compartment and parlor
cars and four combination baggage
and smoking cars for the Southern Ia
cific's limited trains between New Or
leans, and Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco.
The Elliott Car Works, of Gadsdeh,
Ala, have received an additional order
for 200 gondOla cars for the Southern
T.-1 Il Of
ordered by this road The Elliott
works have also received an order for
$500 car wheels for the Mexican Cen
trail.
A meeting of the people of Bsaver
was held on Sunday night when the
project of building a railroad through
from Juab on to St George and thence
to Los Angeles was unanimously en-
dorsed. Addresses were made by Mr..
Theodore F. Never, of st. Louis,
Presley Denney and others and COM
mittee was appointed to push the pro-
ject.
Tt is learned that George W. vro-
man, president of 1.-The Railroad
Mems Railroad" an enterprise con-
templating the building of line from
San Diego to Salt Lake, will arrive
here the latter part Of the week, when
a mass meeting will be called to
been explained in detail in this paper.
The Pullman Car company has re-
ceived orders from the Southern rail-
way for twenty first-class passenger
coaches and four mail cars, all OF
which will be equipped with the
Pintsch light and the Safety company
system of steam heating by water cir
culation Ten express cars have also
been ordered by the same road from
the Barney & Smith Car company, the
Pintsch light and Safety steam heat
being specified.
The Colorado, Wyoming & Great
Northern company has given a trust
deed to the Solicitors Loan and Trust
company, Of Philadelphia, Pa, to SCI
cure a loan of $4,000, 600 to build tAr
Green River, Wyo., 200 miles, WIN
is the main line. A branch is to- ~
built from the main line where it
crosses the White river, west down the
river to the Ouray Indian agency, IN
Utah; thence up the Duchesne and
Strawberry creek and down Daniel
creek to Provo City, Utah; also
branch line from the junction of Daniel
creek and Provo City west TO Park
City, Utah; also from Rangeiy, Colo,
east up the White river to Meeker,
Colo. The mortgage is a first lien on
the property of the company, including
the Little Book Cliff railway which
is built from Grand Junction north ten
miles and which is to form a part of
the nTdTn line. Bonds to the amount
of $500, 900 are to be issued at once for
the purchase of rails, etc, and the re-
naming bonds as each five miles OF
road are completed. w. T. Carpenter,<
Grand Junction, Colo, is president.