The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-17
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The Southern railway has authorized
the building of second track from
| North Charlotte yards to Harrisburg
W. II. Wells is chief engineer OF con
structiou at Washington, d. c.
There was an increase last year in
tho mileage operated by the Atchison
system, which includes not only the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fc railway
but also Subsidiary lines operated of
362 miles. This brings the total mileage
operated up TO 1898 miles, the greater
part of which lies in the region generally
spoken of rs the southwest.
The Northern Pacific railway has sent
II. J. Titus, the company dining car
superintendent, abroad to make study
of the hotels. clubs and cafes TO get
new ideas for his company dining
car service.
On the construction of the new pas,
senger station of the Chicago & North
western railway in Chicago, eleven
carloads Of cement are being used daily.
The next meeting of the Southeastern
Accounting Conference will be held
at Hotel Chamberlain, Fortress Monroe,
Va. (Old Point Comfort), November i
and ;, 1909.
An officer of the Canadian, Pacific is
quoted as saving that work Will be
started soon double tracking the mann
line between Winnipeg, Man, and Bran
don, l3l miles.
Preliminary surveys are said to be
under way from Brownsville, Or, east.
The line will pass through the center
of the CalooIa valley, touching CTaw-
fordsyillc and Holley. The plans call
for line from Albany, Or, cast across
the Cascade range to Ontario, In Nal
hcur county on the Idaho boundry. 325
miles. +. T, Griffith, Oregon City, is
an incorporation and G. II. Warner is a
director. The headquarters of the COM
pany are at Portland.
On the Chicago Northwestern the
contract has been let to the Winston
Brothers company for the extension
from Belle Fourche. s, D., cast to the
government townsite, about twenty-five
miles. An officer of tho Chicago &
Northwestern denies that surveys have
been made for a line from Lander, Wyo.,
west.
On the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget
Sound a line is to be built from Maiden
on the present line in Whitman county,
Wash, north to Spokane, about thirty
five miles.
The Spokane, Portland and Seattle
railroad which has now been III opcr"
alton about year. presented evidence
al the recent Portland hearing To show
that its net earnings were very small,
and that dividends cannot be paid for
some time, The auditor Of this road
said its net earnings in the last fiscal
year have been but S255,00O The gen
cral freight agent testified that the
country which 1t traversed consists
largely of waste land; that tho rest OF
it is so sparsely settled that it will be
years before it will originate much
freight business, and that the road 5
main revenue comes from traffic
turned over TO it by connecting lines.
! IL A. Fairchild. chairman of the
state railroad commission of Washing
ton, recently testified AT Portland that
his estimate of the cost of rebuilding
the portion of the Oregon Railroad and
Navigation company's line lying in
Washington is something like S6,0000 900
less than the estimate made yesterday
by an engineer employed by the com
pany TO appralse the company s prop
crty.