The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-20
Railway Notes.

The D. r. G. and Missouri Pacific
yesterday had a train of sheep from
Salina.
Miss Madge Depew left on last
nights R. G. w. No. 4 for Plainsfield.
N. j.
A train of twenty cars of cattle yes
terday left Nevada for Chicago routed
D. & R. G. and Burlington.
George Ballentine, manager of the
Denver Union Stock Yards, returned
home yesterday.
The Burlington yesterday had a
train of cattle from Nevada for the
east, routed R. G. w. and D. & r. G.
Mills French, he who so ably conducts
the Kansas City Union Stock Yards,
came in yesterday from jaunt
through Idaho.
Phil P Hitchcock, travelling passen-
ger agent for the Lackawanna route,
with headquarters at Buffalo, n. Y,
was in the city yesterday
W. H. Firth, general agent of the
Rock Island passenger department in
Colorado, with headquarters at Dem
yer. was a visitor in this city yester-
day.
The Milwaukee yesterday had TWEEN
ty-fye cars of sheep from Billings,
Mont. for Chicago. They went out
over the n. p. to connect.
If railway officers are approached by
Roswell Mott, representing himself as
emigration agent for the Rock Island
and wanting transportation, they will
do well to give him 'the frozen face"
General Agent Mcmillan, of the Bur-
lington, has returned after a month
visit in and about Boston. He reports
the weather as unbearably hot back
there.
Including the first week in Septem-
Der, the Wabash earnings this year,
dating from Jan. 1, have amounted to
IS, 279, 03S; in 1894, $7,5S54 for the same
period.
The observation-disclosures rate from
Denver of $40 for the round trip is all
right, but $3.50 from Salt Lake needs
and doubtless will be taken up and
again passed. upon.
The st. Louis Trust company, it is
reported will act as trustee for $150,
600 bond issue made to secure construc-
ton of the Dallas Belt e. Terminal line.
Construction work has begun. w. @.
Conner is president.
W. V. Hawley has been appointed
acting general freight agent and pas
SGuS6E agent VI tiiN L iiibA1Js L VI
Wayne & Western, in place of Frank
James. who resigned TO accept service
with another company.
General Agent Alex Mitchell, of the
Milwaukee road, left for Idaho and
Montana common points last night.
General Agent Walker, of the North
western, came in yesterday from south
ern Utah points, whittier he has been
rustling business.
The Philadelphia & Reading has a
single-driver locomotive, No. 1885, con-
structed on novel principles, now max
ing regular daily trips. This monster
is a few days more than two months
old, and was built in the Baldwin
works at Philadelphia. Already it has
hauled a train twice as heavy as the
record breakers on the British railways
a mile in forty-one seconds, and in a
continuous run has covered sixteen
miles in twelve minutes, or at the con-
slant rate of a mile ir forty-one Sec
onds.
Yesterday was pay day with the
Union Pacific, and the employees
looked brighter than usual in conse-
cuence. The pay car goes south this
morning and with it goes General Su-
perlntendent Bancroft, Superintendent
Young, Master Mechanic Patterson
and General Master Mechanic Dunn
who arrives from Denver on No. / this
morning. Aside from paying off, the
trin will he one of INSPECTION