Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-10
Annual Examination Of Station
Il Houses and Roadbed Of
Oregon Short Line.
GOLD MEDALS TO BE GIVEN
Tour of Inspection Requires n Weeks
Time and Covers a,is9 Miles of
strenuous Riding.

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strings Of expectation on the part OF
station agents and section foremen on
the oregon Short Line system VIII be
q, ut tho straining point, for the reason
that at the expiration Of that time the
committee of inspection, VIII be
making its rounds over the road.
The annual inspection Of the agencies
and the roadbed has become a feature
Tof universal Interest on the Short Line,
"a and is II great factor in maintaining
:the excellent condition Of the stations
and the roadbed and railroad in gen
eral. Prizes are given to those agents
and section forefnen who received the
highest markings from the scoring
fcommittee and for general good re-
tsults the scheme adopted by all Hnr-
rin1nn lines, and carried out faithfully
4, In all it's departments cannot be sur
passed by any idea Of modern origin.
PRIZES 10 BE. AWARDED.
Prizes are awarded on the follow
ting points OF competition: One gold
medal for the hest roadmaster's dis
5trict on the entire system which con-
tsists of the Southern Pacific lines cast
sof Sparks, Nevada, the oregon Short
Il Line east f&Granger and west to
Huntington, and from Ogden to Butte,
I, Montana.
Il Ono gold medal for section foremen,
for the best section in the entire jur-
isdiction.
One gold medal to each agent having
"a perfect station.
Z One silver medal to the section fore
man having the best section in each
sroadmaster's district
One silver medal to each pumper
hgsaSperfeet pump house. n
yt,itJ he i,pr ba
competition last year, two women won
4 prizes forsbaYing perfect statlons,Sone.
tOf these being the woman in charge at
Pennington station, in Davis county,
Utah, and the other went to the woman
IN charge of the station at Orchard
station, in western Idaho. -
) WORK OF INSPECTION.
The work of making the inspcetlon5
y Ia n strenuous proceeding. and Involves:
riding over 1,4E6 miles of road on tho
Oregon Short Line track, and over 033
miles Of road over the Southern Pacific
lines, or d total of 2,iS9 miles to be
covered by the committee. The trip
usually consumes a week or mores and
!: Is sandwiched in between Sundays so
s that the committee may run into head
quarters on sunday to clear up urgent
business matters which have accumu-
lated during the week
for Pocatello, whence they will inspect
the east end of the Idaho division,
Thence they VIII return and go over
the western Idaho division, and then
I they will come back to tltali and cover
THE Salt Lake division, and afterward
z the Southern Pacific lines. The Montana
division has already been gone over.
.f PERSONNEL OF COMMITTEE.
Those comprising the inspection COM
committee are as follows: j. NJ Davis,
general superintendent Of the Oregon
Short Line: William Ashton, chief en-
gineer: A. B. Stevenson, superintendent
of the Utah division at Salt Lake; T.sCi.
Manson superintendent salt Lake di-8
vision, ut Ogden; W. II. Jones, acting
superintendent Idaho division. Poca-
stello; w, r. Armstrong, acting supsfs
intendent Montana division, Pocatello;
II. J. Harris, division engineer, Utah
division, salt Lake; L, Fitzgerald. en-
ginear Salt Lake division. Ogden; w, 8.
Harer, engineer Idaho division. Poca-
telln; all roadmasters and trainmas-
tiers. each of.iwhom goes over some for
etgn district, and section foremen all
along the line. who are picked up and
run over foreign districts so that they
Tuy assist Judging the work of their
competitors
Only points count In the score, and
these are cast up according to Well de-
fined rules. The general superintend-
ent chief engineer division superin-
tendents and engineers are the scoring
committee, and they are assisted by
suggestions from those who accompany
them. The party travels in n special
train, consisting OF Il special obserra-
ton car, and two private sleeping cars
and Il diner