The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-22
Railroad Notes.

President A. w. McCune of the Utah
| q Pacific will return home today.
NJ. S. Dean, vice president and gen
eral manager of the Utah & Pacific,
was in the city yesterday.
j. F. Dunn, superintendent of mo-
tive power Of the Oregon Short Line,
Will return home this morning.
The Short Line officials will send the
six weed killers" out toward Farm
1ngton tomorrow to do some spraying.
Vice President and General Manager
Bancroft and General Superintendent
Calvin left town yesterday to make an
inspection of the Idaho division.
The Denver-AIliance line of the Bur-
lington is nearly completed and that
company has made the announcement
that the line will be thrown open for
traffic on Aug. s.
Vice President and General Manager
Bancroft of the Oregon Short Line has
issued an order that all the general Of
hCes Of the company remain closed on
the oath inst, Pioneer day.
President Cassatt of the PENINSULA
mia road has issued an official circular
announcing the acquisition by his road
of the Allegheny Valley and the West
ern New York & Pennsylvania roads.
The executive committee of the Wa
bash has subscribed $4,000 for the Pan
American exposition in Buffalo in 1901.
Another subscription of Se5, 900 by the
same road has been made to the ST.
Louis Worlds fair in 1903.
The outing over the Short Line for
northern Utah and Idaho points was
yesterday a decided success, and more
people took advantage of the cheap
rates than anU nrauiOT1c
long time to the same points
Globe-Democrat: The Central Pas
senger association roads have adopted
rule that hereafter no free tickets
will be given with party rates. It has
been customary for some time to give
one free ticket with every party which
bought ten or more tickets.
The Northern Pacific is about to is
sue its report for the past year. II
Will contain some extremely interest
ing data co; cerning the system. One
of the facts which will be brought forth
will be that Of the local business of the
company fully IS per cent is local traf-
fic- The wheat tonnage averages %
per cent and the lumber business 27
per cent.
The General Passenger association
lines have been asked to make half
idbSS lOl ever yDouy WlSnlnS TO go from
points in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and
Michigan to Indianapolis Aug. 8, TO OBJ
serve the formal notification of BRYAN
and Stevenson of their nomination for
president and vice president by the
Democratic party. The western lines
have not set been asked to make re-
duced rates for the occasion.
Denver Post: A persistent rumor is
affoat among the railroad officers in
Denver that there is an open breach
between the Union Pacific and the Chi
cago & Northwestern, which will prob
ably result in the discontinuance of ex-
listing traffic relations between the two
roads, and the formation of a new aili-
anee between the Union Pacific and the
Illinois Central. This throws more
light on the workings of the Hartman
syndicate Hartman is a member of
the board of directors of the Union
Pacific, where his, influence has bean
strong. 1t is evident that the rumor
if true, means that Hartman is ready
to begin active operation in abe west
at once, and that the Illinois Central
will probably run trains through TO
Denver