The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-29
Railroad Notes.

II. NJ. Clay, general agent of the
Union Pacific, has returned from Glen
wood.
j. Q. Critchlow. travelling auditor of
the Utah 6 Pacific, is expected in town
today.
Joseph A. West, chief engineer of the
Utah & Pacific, will be in town for the
next few days.
Thirty carloads of sheep were shipped
from points on the Utah & Pacific to
Soda Springs last week.
Emerson Hill. vice president of the
Red Rock & Salmon Stage company,
was in town yesterday.
B. d. Beardsley. travelling agent of
the Chicago & Northwestern, returned
from the east yesterday.
w. L. Fox. travelling livestock agent
of the Chicago & Northwestern, is in
Soda Springs on business.
A. w. McCune, president of the Utah
& Pacific, will return from an extended
trip to the north today or tomorrow.
Traffic Manager Babcock of the Rio
Grande Western will return from Cali
fornia week from next Monday.
Hoyt Sherman. general agent of the
Colorado Southern, leaves town today
for ten days business trip to Seattle.
Colonel N. w. Clayton, general man
ager of the Salt Lake & Los Angeles,
has returned from a three days trip
to the north.
The Short Line will run an excursion
train to Ogden tomorrow to accomEio-
date the members and friends of the
Nineteenth ward Sunday school.
Work has been commenced on the
Union Pacific cutoff between Leroy
and Evanston. This Improvement will
shorten the line by about ten miles.
II. Clark of the auditing department
OF the Short Line has returned from a
two weeks vacation, and has been pro-
NOTED to the position formerly held by
II. w. Human, who was transferred to
the engineering corps.
The last excursion of the Union Pa
cific from Rock Springs and intermedi-
ate points to the Salt Palace exceeded
expectations so much that another will
be authorized in a short time The date
has not yet been determined.
Vice President Bancroft. General
Manager Eccles and Chief Engineer
OMelveny of the Oregon Short Line,
who have been north inspecting the
work on the st. Anthony branch, will
reach town early this morning.
Ed Staples and Dick Strachan, two
OF the oldest conductors on the Idaho
division of the Short Line, have severed
their connection with the road and both
Will leave for the east, where they have
secured positions on the Maple Leaf.
The Rio Grande Western has closed
contracts to transport the Twenty
seventh infantry from Camp Meade to
San Francisco. and the Colorado volun-
teerS from San Francisco to Denver
The latter regiment. will pass through
Salt Lake in about ten days.
The Union Pacific has been awarded
the contract to transport the Thirty
fourth infantry from Fort Logan to
San Francisco. They left Denver last
night. T. o. Goodsell, travelling pas
senger agent of the Union Pacific ac-
companies them from Denver to Ogden
Two more of the big $50 class engines
for the Short Line have been received
from the Cooke locomotive works. and
four more are between Chicago and
Granger. The engines. are arriving in
such shape that they are being pressed
into commission one day after their re-
ceipt at POcatello.
Five trainloads OF sheep We're shipped
out of Park City to Chicago over the
Union Pacific last week. Freight Agent
Choate of the Union Pacific reports
business good and on the increase daily.
No protest has been received from live
stock raisers about the increase in rates
to Missouri river points, but one is ex-
pected.
w. S. Hart, representing the Rodcer
Ballast Car company Of Chicago, is on
the Montana division of the Short Line,
introducing the employees to the han
sent out. The cars are being use1 in
betterment of the roadway At present,
but in the winter will be placed in the
coal service.