Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-16
SPIKE AND RAIL.

General Manager Bancroft and Gem
| eral superintendent Calvin OF the Short
| Line are out on the road,
The Denver & Rio Grande today is
shipping seventeen cars OF cattle from
Price and three cars OF sheep from Og-
den east.
s. A. Hutchinson, excursion agent for
the Overland route, Is IN town. He re-
ports the outlook for tourist business
TO Yellowstone Park this season to be
exceedingly bright
+, l.. Parriott has been appointed
chlef dispatcher OF the San Pedro, Los
Angeles a. Salt Lake road. He was
Formerly dispatcher at Prescott for the
Santa Fe. Prescott & Phoenix.
The hearing before the United States
land Office at Carson City OF the case
involving the ownership OF the thirty
1--WE miles OF grade over the Nevada
line In the direct route to Los Angeles
closed yesterday.
The orange crop IN California IL suf-
fering on account of the inability OF the
railroads to provide cars for its trans
portatlon. For this purpose 400 cars
are needed daily, and the railroads can
provide but half that number.
c, o, Whittemore and Engineer Nc
Cartney OF the San Pedro, Los An
geles a. Salt Lake road have gone TO
San Francisco, where they viii meet
Vice President j. Ross Clark and ac-
company him on HIS way 10 Salt Lake
The evening train on the Park City
branch of the Rio Grande Western was
delayed yesterday, owing to an ore car
jumping the track in the vicinity Of
the Altus tunnel The train did not get
into town until after ten O'Clock last
night.
The Mahoney cut. which was the most
difficult job on the Sherman hill cut
on, VIII be completed inside OF the next
week, when everything will be ready
for the tracklayers over the entire Lar
amie- Buford cut-off, including the tun-
mel.
Arrangements to go into effect on
April Is have been made between the
Erie and the Big Four whereby each
road VIII have double track between
Marion and Gallon, Ohio. The agree
ment provides that the Erie may use
the Big Four track for It's passenger
traffic, while the Big Four may use the
Erie tracks for Its freight traffic.
The Southern Pacific passenger de-
partment has put on an efficient corps
OF uniformed Intelligence bureaus
az Oakland mole and San Francisco
stations These porters are similar to
those In operation at the Grand Central
depot In New York They are uni
versal boon to the travelling public and
other perambulating Interrogation
points.
Donald Rose Of the Illinois Central
this morning received through the malls
handsome long-serWce souvenir,
which Is being sent out by his road to
commemorate Its flftieth anniversary.
The trinket Is In the form Of a copper
medallion with the Illinois Central en-
blem on the one side and the words,
Service souvenir; Donald Rose: after
eight years continuous service"
A. b. Cults, general passenger and
ticket agent for the Minneapolis & st.
Louis railway, accompanied by his wife
and j. +. Van Rensselar, assistant gen.
eral agent OF the Illinois Central with
headquarters in Denver, came In from
the East this morning over the Rio
Grande Western. They were taken In
hand by Donald Rose who drove them
around the city and showed them the
points OF interest. Mr.. Van Rensselar
Is nephew OF E. II. Hartman.