Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-01-30
SPIKE AND RAN.

c. j. Pruitt of the Burlington has
returned from q trip to Nevada.
The low rates from the East TO Salt
Lake next August on the occasion Of
the Grand Lodge convention Il. i. o.
t., vii be in vogue on all roads.
The Illinois Central has trainload
OF bananas from New Orleans into
Chicago 1868 days In the year at 4.20
IN the morning
Several trainmen on the Idaho divls-
ION OF the Short Line have retired from
service owing TO the lnfractlon OF rule
I06, governing the use or frequenting
OF places where lntoxicants are sold.
Two hundred ballast cars recently
orGered by the Union Pacific, are to be
turned over to the Southern Pacific for
use on the construction of the Ogden
Lucin cutoff.
Charles H. Gleim, travelling freight
and passenger agent for the Colorado
Midland with headquarters at Portland,
Ore, came In this morning on his way
from Denver,
The Short Line ice harvest began yes
terday at Market Lake. on account OF
sickness Luke Larry did not secure his
customary contract, and the ice Is now
handled by the bridge and building de-
partment of the company,
It Is said that number of the clerks
employed In the Southern Pacific audit
ing department who have basked In the
sunshine of $50 salaries for years past
win now have to cultivate habits con-
sistent with a 500 month stipend.
Toe Oregon Short Line has received
the largest Shay engine ever built II is
now being coupled up at the shops and
VIII be used on the Tintlc branch In
handling the ore shipments OF the Star
Consolidated.
The San Francisco, which the Denver
Post calls the finest dining car In the
world, rolled into Denver on Tuesday
evening over the Burlington on It's first
run out Of the shops and hencefortn
VIII be in service between Denver and
the East,
The News" has long predicted that
something would drop In the office OF
Acting Traffic Manager II. M. schu.
macher. This morning the ceiling fell
with crash and the traffic manager
has now sought temporary quarters In
the main building. Nothing more serl-
Gus than can be repaired with some
courl-plaster and furniture polish
r. c. Judson, Industrial agent for
the Hartman lines, Is In Ogden dis
| tributins roots among the farmers graf.
| utiously In an effort TO foster the hon
dustry These are not for smoking
| purposes but as means OF building mn
| the tonnage Of the o. X. & N, and the
Oregon Short Line,
The Philadelphia Press esfimates
probable railroad expenditures the cur
rent year at 1899, 800, 600, divided as fol.
lows Pennsylvania. si25, 0OO. 600. Van
derbilt lines, $4,000. 900; Baltimore q
! Ohio. $50, 600, 00O Southern Pacific and
| Union Pacific, s2s,0OO,0 900. Gould limos
| s25 100000 Atohlson. $50 900 900. anth,
raclte roads, $4,000, O00 New England
| roads, 5000 600, southern roads. 81 ZOO
900; -. Paul. sS,5OO,OOO Louisville &
Nashville, 100000, 81 Louis, $1,000 900;
Illinois Central, S2,5Oo.Ooo,
Reports to the Railroad Gazette show
that the total output OF eight locomo-
| uve-building companies, representing
fifteen plants, for the year 1901 was
S3St an Increase OF 23l, or re per cent.
over 1900, and the largest output for
any single year since the building OF
locomotives began These figures do
not include locomotives built at the rail-
road shops. OF the 1884 locomotives
built last year Ss7 were for export. In
1900 the number built for use outside
the United States was sos.