The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-22
SCHEDULE OF TRAINS
E. W. SULLIVAN APPOINTED AS
HEBER STATION AGENT.
Today There Will Be Made the First
Shipment of Sheep By Rail-For-
ty Double-deck Cars VIII Be
Loaded at Heber, if It Is Pos
sible.

Rlo Grande Western railroad wa.
, driven yesterday afternoon There wa.
a large crowd assembled at Heber t.
witness the laying of the last rail, bu
there was no public demonstra ton /
is proposed to have this later, when ths
occasion will be made a memorable one
, IN the history of the county Until late
yesterday afternoon there was a large
crowd around the depot grounds
which watched with interest the work
that was going on. Scores of railroad
hands were busy laying the switches
and getting the train yard in shape.
Opens Next Month.
Yesterday General Superintendent
Welby gave out the official schedule
that will go into effect on Oct l, and
also announced the name of the agent
who has been appointed to take charge
OF the station al Heber. He also issued
an official circular, No. 20, in which it
is announced that the Provo canyon
branch will be open for business Oct.
4 l, and that trains will be operated as
4 per schedule on supplement No. of
time table No. 80. The official schedule
shows that there will be two trains to
and from Heber daily, and the service
i 1t is thought, will prove entirely salts
| factory.
Provo Canyon Schedule.
The trains on the Provo branch have
been designated as Nos. 81 80, SO and
1 "a. According to the schedule, No. 81
leaves Provo at $3.50 a. m. and arrives
at Heber at lilo a. m. No. 81 leaves
Provo at 6:25 p m. and arrives at He
! Der at sos p. m.
From Heber No. 81 leaves at $40 a.
m. and arrives at Provo at 500 a. M,
and No. 90 leaves Heber at 2:20 p. M
| and arrives at Provo at D. m.
Train No. s, which leaves Salt Lake
| CITY at p. M, connects with No. 81 at
Provo at 6:25 p. M, while No 5, which
leaves Thistle Junction at $3.50 p. M,
connects also with No. 81. This gives
connection from Sanpete
No. SO, which is the morning train to
Heber, has the following connections:
No 6, leaving Salt Lake City at s a.
m. connects with it at Provo at $50
a. M, while No Z, from Tintic. also
makes. connection with No. 50 at Provo.
Coming from Heber, No. 81 leaves at
6:4O a. M, and arrive at Provo at 500
a. M, making connection with No. Z,
which arrives in Salt Lake City at 10
a. m. No. 81 also makes connection
with No. for Sanpete and No. for
the east.
No. SO, which leaves Heber at 2:2o
p. M, arrives at Provo at D. m. and
makes connection with No. for Salt
Lake City, arriving here at 5:35 D. m.
1t also makes connection with No. 8 for
Tintfc, No. for the east and No. for
the west.
Five Hours In the City.
This schedule will enable person to
leave Salt Lake City at a. m. and ar
rive at Heber City at II 10 a. M. which |
VIII give three hours and ten minutes
IN Heber Returning, Heber is left at !
2:2O p. nl.,A and the traveller is back in |
Salt Lake City at 5:35 p. m. If it is |
desired to spend the night at Heber a
person can leave Salt Lake CITY at s |
O'Clock in the afternoon and reach He
Der at S:05 o'clock at night, and return |
ing can leave Heber at $40 the next
morning and be back in Salt Lake CITY I
at l0 o'clock the same morning.
The residents of Heber can leave |
there at $40 in the morning and ar |
irving at Salt Lake City at 10 o'clock.
can spend five hours here before re- |
turning, and reach Heber at sos the
same night. If they prefer to leave He
Der at 2:2O o'clock in the afternoon thew
arrive at Salt Lake City at 535 o'clock
ana nave until o'clock the next morn
ing before returning.
From this it will be seen that II ;s
possible to go to Heber and back the
same day. Anyone desiring to GO to
HeDer and return the same day can do
SO by leaving here in the morning. and
can nave three hours and ten minutes
IN Heber. Vice versa, anyone desiring
TO come from Heber to Salt Lake Citv
ana return the same day, can do so by
iieaViilg Heper IN the morning, and can
nave flve hours in Salt Lake. The ar
rangement of the schedule is such that
passengers from Heber to Salt Lake
CITY nave two hours more here than
passengers from Salt Lake to Heller
day. nc 'e'iiie
Good Running Time.
The train leaving Salt Lake at 3
o CLOCK IN the morning reaches Provo |
at 9:3O O'clock, which makes it a run
OF Just an hour and a half The train
ternoon arrives at Provo at CPS O'Clock.
rms run is just five minutes faster
than the morning schedule. The train |
leaving Heber at $40 O'Clock in the
morning arrives at Provo at 500 /
o clock, which makes the rum one hour
and forty minutes, While the afternoon
train, which leaves Heber AFT 2.20
o'clock, arrives at Provo at a O'Clock
charleston. which is the next station
TO Heber is just sixteen minutes run
from Heber, and this difference exists
in the arrival of all of the trains uDon
the branch. From Provo to Heber is
exactly 25.S miles, and when the fact is
taken into consideration that the road
bed is new, the time of the schedule
that has been prepared is very satis-
factory.
Agent Appointed.
Yesterday Superintendent Welby ap-
pointed e. w. Sullivan to be the sta
ton agent in charge at Heber For
some time there has been much specu-
lation as to who would get this plum
and when superintendent Weaby made
the announcement of his appointment
it was received with general satisfac-
ton. Mr.. Sullivan is now the agent at
Cotton and his successor has not been
upon. He has been in the
employ of the Rio Grande Western for
several years and has made a. most
excellent record for efficiency. His
as the agent at Heber is a.
distinct promotion, and is given him in
of his faithful services.
First Shipment.
The first large shipment Of sheep by
rail from Heber will take place today.
when a flock of 10000 sheep owned by
J. o. Duke, will be loaded upon forty
aouble-deck cars. 1t is not thought !
there will be any difficulty experienced
in loading the sheep today, although
1t is possible that the work upon the
road may not be well enough forward
to permit of such a heavy shipment
The railroad is said, however, to be I'M
der contract to make the shipment to-
7av and tba cI pnn will in al r,rohoJ,iI