The San Francisco call., 1909-02-15

views when the subject gets before
that body. The Northern Pacific may
be compelled to restore the old plan,
as the Hartman lines have the co..
operation of commercial organizations
in their effort TO have it brought about,
and for which purpose they will ask
the commission to take action,
The Boea and Loyalton road has been
opened for traffic Snowplows had to
be borrowed from the Southern Pacific
to clear the track.
Nathaniel A. Black. rate clerk of the
Santa Fe, with headquarters a Topeka
w G. Gardiner of the Ell Paso and
Southwestern and F. S. Howard of the
Southern Pacific, are meeting here to
revise the Rio Grande rate sheet. which
covers all the territory of Arizona, New
Mexico and western Texas.
E. O. Mccormick wired to the gem
eral offices of the Southern Pacific yes.
terday that he expected to leave Los
Angeles for this city last night.
Fl. J. Merrick of the New York Gem
tral lines notes general activity all
over the country, and that the orders
for ears show a marked improve ement
over the week before. The demand
is especially heavy for boxears.
1t is reported from the city of Mexi-
co that 5. Pearson & Son, Ltd, Lon
don, England, who are operating the
Tehuantepec National, are interested in
the proposed line from San Geronimo,
Vera Cruz, southeast through the states
of Vera Cruz and Chiapas, and northeast
through the states of Tabasco, Cam
peche and Yucatan to Merida about
$50 miles. The Mexican government
is said TO have recently granted a
concession for building the mountain
division OF this proposed line. 1t is
provided in this concession that this
division. about 80 miles long, is to be
operated by electricity. 1t is said that
a thorough investigation by experts
shows that the division which runs
across the mountains can be operated
more economically and to better ad-
vantage by electricity than by steam.
This division will extend between San
Cristobal, Chiapas and Tuxtle. A por-
tion of the country through which the
line Will pass is very rough and it is
said that serious engineering and con-
struction : difficulties will be en-
countered
The Chicago. Milwaukee and St Paul
has given up fits plan for an express
service of it's own, and after MAY /
next the express service on the new
line to the Pacific coast. as well as on
the company's existing lines, will be
furnished by Wells, Fargo. & Co. The
United States express company will
continue to operate on the lines of the
st. Paul proper until May l. The Con-
tinental express company, organized by
the railway company and which now is
operating the new Pacific coast ex-
tension as far as Butte, will be dis
solved.
The railways embraced in the new
contracts lately made by the United
States express company, to take ef-
feet July l. or soon after, are the fol-
lowing Beaumont. Sour Lake and
Western; Chicago and Eastern Illinois,
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific: Chi
cago. Rock Island and Gulf; Chicago
Rock Island and El Paso: Colorado
South, New Orleans and Pacific: Evans
Vile and Terre Haute; Fort Worth and
Rio Grande; Orange and Northwestern,
Paris and Great Northern; St. Louis
and San Francisco; st. Louis. San Fran
cisco and Texas; Trinity and Brazo
Valley.