Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-19


headquarters at San Francisco, arrived
in Los Angeles yesterday. The men are
on business trip and will leave for the
north this afternoon.
w. A. Alberger, traffic manager of the
Tonopah & Tidewater, left for Ludlow
last night on business connected with
the company he represents:
e. Venasco, head of the department of
railroads for the Mexican government,
with headquarters at the City of Mexico,
arrived in Los Angeles Thursday night.
Mr.. Venasco is accompanied by his fam
lily and is at the Westminster hotel.
They will visit relatives in this city.
w. G. Sawyer, an official of the North
ern Pacific, with headquarters at st.
Paul, arrived in Los Angeles yesterday.
The San Pedro, Los Angeles e. Salt
Lake officials held meeting Tuesday
afternoon, December II, at which all of
the old o:icers were reelected to serve
for the ensuing year.
The general offices over the city report
they are not having the eastern ticket
sales furry, usual after the expiration or
the colonist rates. This is the first time
in the past four or five years that the
sale Of tickets to eastern points from
Los Angeles and surrounding cities has
been small at this time of the year, and
seems to indicate that the people who
have so far arrived intend to remain for
the winter, at least. 1t is reported that
from present indications the spring travel
to the east will be exceptionally good.
A through tourist car, loaded to the
ahnr md
is due to arrive in Los Angeles at 2:30
p. M, December 23.
These tourists, who will remain in this
city for the winter, are travelling by way
of the Northern Pacific and Southern
Pacific via Portland, and are mostly
from Manitoba and Winnipeg.
This is the third of the series of through
tourist cars the Northern Pacific will
run to this coast this winter. Two more
are due some time In January.
]. H. Pearman, assistant manager of
the tourist department for the Chicago &
Northwestern, left yesterday afternoon
for Riverside on business connected with
the Honeymoon Special"
Three new divisions on the. Chicago.
Milwaukee & ST. Paul railway were
opened for train service early in Decem-
ber.
Two of these divisions were constructed
recently and the other, a short line in
Minnesota, was purchased. The combined
additions comprise 424 miles, giving the
st. Paul system total mileage of 1888.
The longest of these branches runs 219
miles through the White river valley,
from Chamberlain, S. D., to Rapid City,
S. d. This is known as the Black Hills
division, and close connections are made
at Chamberlain with Through service to
Dubuque and Chicago. Train service was
established over 1t on December l.
On. the same date the company began
operating the Duluth, ST. Cloud, Glencoe
e Mankato railway, recently purchased,
known as the alphabet road" This
line, which runs forty miles from Albert
Lea to st. Clair, Mimi, is known as the
st. Clair branch of the southern Mime
sofa division.
The most important opening, however,
was the first section of the Pacific coast
extension. Train service was established
on December from Mobridge, S. D.. the
point where the st. Paul crosses the
Missouri river, to Bowman, N. D., a
distance of 165 miles. This division has
twenty-five out of the eighty-tive stations
to be located on the extension east of
Butte, Mont.
It is announced that 200 miles of rails
have been laid and much of the grading
already completed as far as the Montana
line The town of Bowman, the terminus
of the line this winter, was formally
opened on November q.
1t is expected the line win be open as
far as Butte, Mont. the latter part of
February. There are at the present time
more than 5000 men employed on con-
struction work between Butte and Seattle
Sunday, December 15, the Baltimore &c
Ohio railroad put into operation its new
classification freight yard at Brunswick.
Md, on the main line of the road, about
eighty miles west of Baltimore. This
announcement is made by Thomas Fitz-
gerald general manager. This will in
augurate a new record in the engineering
world for quick terminal construction
and 1t will also mark the opening OF the
largest individual freight terminal in the