The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-06

board Air line, with headquarters at
Atlanta, Ca.
j. n. Wisme has been appointed
travelling passenger agent for the Sea-
board Air line, with headquarters at
Houston, Tex.
Dick NesIen, of the Burlington, came
in last evening from Nevada with the
w. P. Noble cattle shipment, that was
held over here for feeding.
Travelling Agent Stinson, of the Mis-
souri, Pacific. comes in today from
Sanpete, having loaded the two trains
of cattle his road pulled off.
Twelve double-decked cars of sheep
will leave Elko, New. on the 18th inst
for the Chicago market. They go r.
G. W., D. G r. G. and Rock Island
The earnings of the Canadian Pa
cific for the week ending November 80
were $3.50, 900, as compared with $536.00O
for the corresponding period of last
year.
General Agent Gray. of the Southern
Pacific, arrived from Montana yester-
day, and wears a self-satisied smile
over the establishment of an agency
at Helena.
General Agent Sherman, of the Gulf
road, leaves this morning over the
Union Pacific for a. three weeks stay
in Washington, D. C. In his absence.
Tom Mcintosh, an old time U. P. man,
will off1ciate in his place.
NEW YORK. Dec. Sat today's
meeting of the directors of the Denver
& Rio Grande railroad no action was
taken on a dividend on the preferred
stock Another meeting will be held in
the early part of next week.
General Superintendent Bancroft.
with car COLA went out last evening
for Butte and will be gone for several
days. His trip is one of inspection and
also to look into transfer matters on
the north end that are of minor de-
tail.
The Lehigh Valley company yester-
day took possession of the Middlesex
Valley railroad, and it will now be op-
Grated as part of the Lehigh. 1t runs
from Naples to Geneva. The bonds
are Internationally guaranteed by the
purchaser.
The gross earnings of the entire
Santa Fe system for the third week
in November were SS41, 52S, a decrease
of $11.284 The system proper decreased
$15.085; st. Louis & San Francisco &c
creased $2.149; Atlantic & Pacific de-
creased $4S.96.
A. B. Farnsworth, general eastern
passenger agent fer the Rock Island.
has resigned, and rumor gives it that
he will go out to the Seaboard air
line. He has been with the Rock
Island since 1879 and is accounted a
very able passenger man.
Albert Johnson. a locomotive en-
gineer on the Seaboard Air line. who
ran the first locomotive on the Raleigh
& Castor, now part of the Air Line
system, has been pensioned and re-
tired from active service. He is now
80 years old and has run a locomotive
fifty wears
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.@The Chicago
e Northwestern Railway company to-
day declared the regular quarterly
dividend of IL per cent. on preferred
stock and restored the dividend on
common stock to the 5 per cent. basis.
2A per cent. for the half year being
declared.
Messrs. c. B. Richards & Co.. having
resigned the general western passenger
agency of the Dominion Line Steam
snip company, continental traffic. Mr..
Gus Braberg, of No. SO East Kinzfe
street, Chicago. the company's present
agent for British, Scandinavian and
Finnish business, has been appointed
general western agent for the CONT
mental traffic also