The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31

gers aggregating 1888, 560-nearly g.
600, 0O0--traveled in those cars. If those
people could be placed in line four feet
apart the line would extend 2.192 miles.
The figures are not mere speculations.
but are based on carefully prepared
statistics. Mr.. George Kerr, the depot
master, has complete record of the
, arrival and departure of passenger
/ trains, with the number of cars From
long experience and careful tests, he is
able to make computations showing the
average number of passengers per car.
OF the passengers about 5000 rode
only between Salt Lake and Ogden. In
looking for the causes for the more
than doubling of the passenger traffic,
as compared with last year, the move
ment of troops to Cuba and the Philip
pines must be considered.
During the year, 1889, 600 pieces of
baggage were handled in the baggage
room of the Union depot. The Union
depot employees on an average number
seventy-fve men, and their wages av-
erage $50 per month.
The Southern Pacific owns the con-
trolling interest in the company. and
John S. Noble is its president; w. ].
Shealy its secretary
A new fast mail train was put on
by the Union Pacific and the Southern
Pacific, making three fast passenger
trains daily between Omaha and Chi
cago.
About 800 of the workingmen of Og-
den are employed on or about the rail-
roads. During the year the working
forces of all the roads have been in
creased. and furthermore. employees
have worked overtime to such an ex-
tent that the sum total disbursed to
these wage-earners has been much
greater than the increase in number of
men would imply.
The steady disbursement of the wages
each month by the various paycars
keeps money in circulation and brings
about q healthy condition OF business.
Ogden is distinctly a city of wage
earners and of homes.
Southern Pacific.
The Southern Pacific ranks first
among the roads in number of en-
ployees. This road has been taxed to
its utmost to handle passengers and
freight during the year. There We're
Sc, 1875 freight cars west-bound in 1898,
but in 1899 there were 1901, an increase
of about 5000. The freight cars east
bound in '9S were 31,96O, and in '99,
81 ,256, balance in favor of last year as
regards the mere number of cars. How
ever, by reason of the great crush of
business this year, many through cars
Were returned east over the southern
route, and moreover, the east-bound
cars were loaded 100 per cent heavier
this last year than the preceding year
and the west-bound so per cent heavier,
hence the eastern business was nearly
double that of 1898 and the west-bound
increased by half.
The employees of the road in Ogden
are classed as follows: Freight office
and sheds, IS; superintendent office
and sheds. %; engine men, 100; con-
duetors and brakemen, $50; switchmen,
20; shopmen, 300. Total, $50.
John S. Noble is superintendent of
this division; W. J. Sheaiy. chief clerk
of the Southern Pacific office; Tom
Rowland, chief dispatcher, and E. NJ.
Luckett, master mechanic.
Union Pacific.
The Union Pacific, connecting Ogden
with Omaha, Denver and the east, en-
ploys nearly 400 men in Ogden. and the
Oregon Short Line sixty, distributed
amongst the various departments as
follows: Oregon Short Line. 90; ma
chine shops, so: bridge building, 40:
train service, 175; freight office and
sheds, so; switching, 80. Total. $50.
The Union Pacific and Oregon Short
Line have a joint Office in charge of
George II. Corse. During '99 about $780,
O0G tons of freight were handled in
about $4,000 cars. the increase in num-
Der of cars being "a, 044 over last year
Rio Grande Western.
The Rio Grande Western has its west.
ern terminal in ogden and its business
showed a proportionate increase with
other lines for the year. The tonnage of
through freight brought in amounted
to 316,529 tons and the outgoing freight
81 695 tons. All classes of business show
an increase of at least 80 per cent over
1898. The road has 1875 men in Ogden.
The Wells-Fargo company and the Rio