The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-13
Short Line and Western VIII
Transfer Here Exclusively.
INSTEAD OF Al OGDEN
E. E. ELLIS GENERAL SHORT
LINE AGENT AT PORTLAND.
Garfield Beach Opening on Tuesday
Rio Grande Western Mining Ex-
cursion to Marysvale-Santa Fe
and Atlantic & Pacific Consolida-
tion-General Railway News and
Notes.

Every pound of freight, passing be-
tween the Oregon Short Line and the
Rio Grande Western. will from this
date, be transferred at Salt Lake City.
instead of at the Ogden and Provo
gateways.
The effect of this imoortant order
which was made yesterday Will be al
most immeasura BILE TO this section. In
the opinion of General Traffic Manager
Eccles, its benefits to Salt Lake can
not yet be estimated beyond the as
sumption that it makes Salt Lake in
every respect the most important rail-
road point between Chicago and San
Francisco. No line of freight is
barred out from passing through Salt
Lake by the order. Ogden and Provo
have ceased TO become points of trans
fer for wool or live stock as well as
dead freight. All of the business
emanating in the northwest from tee
O. R. & N, Great Northern and
Northern Pacific Will be turned over
to the Western and its connections at
the freight depot of the Oregon Short
Line which Will be connected immedi-
ately by trackage facilities with the
other line. All business from the east
Missouri Pacific, Santa Fe and other
connections of the Western will Dur
sue the same course here. This traffic
is destined TO become immense within
this month from the orders that have
been placed in the east, routing bust
ness over the Short Line.
DESIRABILITY OF CONCENTRA-
TON.
the fact that it was desirious of con-
centrati the transferral at one point
and the acceptable point was where
the general offices of both roads We're
situated so that the transferral itself
might be made under the supervision
of the general officers instead of sub
ordinate agents. strong reason when
the increased volume of business was
considered.
The location here of the auditors and
treasurers of both lines made the
project especially favorable since both
OF these officials are directly interested
in the calculation of the traffic and the
settlements on divisions. instead OF
exchanging at long distance the vast
amount of correspondence necessary
10 the carrying on of such an import
ant traffic arrangement these matters
can now be settled at short range and
therefore VIII ~
ton.
The operating departments of both
roads are busily engaged in arranging
the disposition of the rolling stock to
the end that the most rapid and effec-
tive service may be obtained.
SHORT LINE NEW SERVICE
The Short Line has. started a new
service between Huntington and SAT-
Lake whereby all fast freight will be
handled between these two points by
one crew, obviating in this particular
the delay of changing crews and Ctner
incidental layovers. Slow freight VIII
he handled by two crews. one operating
between Huntington and Pocatello and
the other between the last point and
Salt Lake. All of the available rolling
stock in the o. S. L. service will be
called out and inside of 80 days freight
trains over the Short Line VIII De
moving but a few miles apart
The Western has also arranged its
fasl freighl service between Grand
Junction and Salt Lake TO conform
with the new order of things on the
O. S. L.. Superintendent Welby has
been busy on the change for the past
three days and has new scnedule
about ready for publication
One marked facility gained by the
new transfer station is the ease with
which small freight Tots are made up
with large consignments.