The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-22
Orders Will Doubtless Be Placed
This Week.
TEN MORE LOCOMOTIVES
NEW FREIGHT CARS AND PER
HAPs PASSENGER COACHES.
President Cornish Puts In a Busy
Day Consulting With Other Off
Gals of the Road-A Black1isting
Case Decided-Rates On Whisky
Latest By Wire.

Before the end of the week the
Oregon Short Line will doubtless place
orders for a large amount of rolling
stock which the road is so much in
need of at the present time, owing to
the great increase in traffic.
President Cornish was in consulta-
ton with General Manager Bancroft
and other officials of the road yester-
day, for the most part considering the
purchase of locomotives. The officials
of the road for some time have had
in contemplation such a move, but as
announced some time ago, the order
was delayed until matters under the
new regime became more settled.
While no official information could be
obtained it is known that one of the
principal objects of Judge Cornish's
trip at this time is to consider the
needs of the road in this direction.
The locomotive order was taken up
yesterday with the result that today
an order for ten new locomotives will
be placed. The matter of ordering
freight cars, box and coal cars, re-
.frigeration cars and possibly some
passenger coaches will be taken up
during the course of the week and no
doubt something in the way of adding
to this class of rolling stock will be
that a large order for box cars will
not be placed until next year. The
great rush is in the early fall and
while the road at present has no cars
to spare there is no such scarcity as
q few weeks ago when grain, wool and
stock were moving at a record-break-
ing rate.
Some passenger coaches may be
ordered at once. Just how many no
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from six to a dozen may be purchased
in the near future.
President Cornish has not yet had
much opportunity to acquaint himself
with the details, but ere he leaves for
the east again it is expected several
important announcements in connec-
ton with a general improvement of
the system will be made. When APP
preached on the subject yesterday he
preferred not to say anything definite;
for the very good reason that he had
not posted himself up on the situation
and therefore had reached no fixed de-
cision. In general way he said the
line would be improved and run in the
interest of the country which it
traverses. The line will continue to
he run independently and reports of
any sensational nature affecting Salt
Lake should not be taken seriously.
The fact that he succeeded Carr as
president had no special significance
except that he would devote more at
tention to the road, whereas Mr.
Carr's time. as is we'll known, was
always taken up with other business
matters. Judge Cornish, on the other
hand, is in a position to divide his
time between the Short Line and the
Union Pacific. of which he is vice
president. He will be a frequent
visitor in Salt Lake and will give the
Short Line the greater part of his
time.
President Cornish visited the differ
ent offices in the Short Line building
in the forenoon and paid his respects
to the department forces. He also
called upon General Agent Clay of the
Union Pacific office. Much of the
presidents time yesterday was taken
up IL examining statistics prepared by
Auditor Hills, while the afternoon was
devoted to consideration of the
orders for rolling stock.