The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-07
CGNQERS

An engine and eight cars overturned
no one hurt and traffic delayed, was
the result of running into an open switch
Saturday on the Southern Pacific five
miles east Of Cobrc, where tho Nevada
Northern branches on, It was an east
bound freight that made the Jump and
1t delayed No, q passenger nine hours.
w. S. Bassingcr. assistant general pas.
scnger agent of the Union Pacific IN
Omaha, is in Salt Lake
Two prominent Euglishmcn were the
guests of Kenneth Kerr Of the local of
fee of the Salt Lake Route Saturday.
John Campbell Gardner, graduate of
Cambridge, England, WhitwoEth cNhih-
ltioner and Carnegie research scholar
and engineer, was ono the guests, and
the other was Achillc BaZirc nm Eng
llsh capitalist, who is making his sew
enth visit TO America.
At noon Saturday the tracks Of the
Utah Light & Railway company on State
road between Fourteenth South and Six
tccnth South streets were turned over
to the operating department as com
plctc. Tho track from Sixteenth South
street TO The creek at the foot of Mur-
ray hill viii probably be completed
within another week. Just as soon as
this stretch of track is in good shape
the linc to Sandy will he undertaken
winter.
Colonel Z. NJ. Hcigho, leading cit
izcn of Wciscr. Ida, and vice c-prcSIdcnt
end general manager of the Pacific.
Idaho 4 Northern railroad, commonly
known AS the .'PinP road. arrived in
salt Lake Saturday. The colonel says
that 100000 apple trees have been set
out in the Council valley that his road
taps one of the very best fruit sec
q Il. 4 IL.
urcS TINT his road viii within five
years have ut least 1000 cars of apples
TO haul. 10 say nothing of other traf
tic. He is staying at the Knutsford,
j. T. Dyer, superintendent Of tcle.
graph on tbc Salt Lake Route, has ar
rived in Salt Lake and is staying at
the Wilson hotel
Reports from Texas indicate that the
international & Great Northern has
been running four special cotton trains
daily, averaging twenty cars TO the
train. during October, and that approx
matcly 5000 bales a day have boon
hauled by this road TO Galveston. The
record day was 5000 bales. Cotton rails
crs are anxious 10 get their crops TO
market during the prevalence Of the
high prices.
Omaha 5 Union station is TO be en-.
lIrgcd aud improved at n cost of 800
600. the railroads interested having
finally arrived at an agreement for that
purpose,
Owing 10 the scarcity of labor in
western Canada the Grand Trunk Pa.
cifc tracl5-laying machine has been ly-
ing idle at Melville for n month.
Approximately $27 100000 has been
paid out by the Pennsylvania Railroad
Employees Relief fund In the past TWEEN
ty-three years. For September, the
benefits amounted to Sl47,0li.
The Frankfort & Cincinnati has been
transferred to the Louisville 6 Nash
vilIc, and 100000 of bonded indebted
ness assumed, despite objections OF bust
ness organizations that IL was Il merg-
er Of competing lines.
Having determined by running a test
train that supposititious objections 10 all
steel passenger cars arc without foun-
datiou. the St Paul has decided to
adopt them, replacing all its passenger
equipment with that kind as fast as
IL is worn out.
On the strength Of favorable reports
from engineering experts tho Canadian
Pacific VIII clectrify its branch into
Phoenix, B. G.
The Great Northern shops at Everett
and llillyard, Wash, arc To he enlarged
4
of Sl.0Q0,00 10 make repairs with great
cr facility.
Harry W. Fuller, passenger traffic
mana"cr of the Chesapeake & Ohio,
and j. Il. Wood, passenger traffic man
ager of the Pennsylvania. arc now the
only survivors of those who were the
first members Of the Trunk Line pas.
scnger committee. Mr. Wood is 6G years
old aud Mr. Fuller only 4 few years
his junior. Both men are still active
and as aggressive az ever in the dis
charge Of their duties.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget
Sound (St. Paul. Railroad company
hes fled petition with the state
railroad commission Of Washington,
asking it TO require the Northern
Pacific 10 continue 10 interchange cars
and 10 maintain a physical connection
with IL at Tacoma. 1t states that the
Northern Pacific has given notice that
no further interchange under the pres
ent arrangement will be permitted and
that The Northern Pacific is trying to
compel the ST. Paul 10 use the tracks
of another company than the Northern
PIciiic. supposedly the Tacoma Eastern.
The 81. Paul has also fled a petition
with the commission 10 require the
Great. Northern to make physical CON
ncctIon and interchange cars with il in
Seattle.
Reports from the western end Of the
new transcontinental state that the
Grand Trunk Pacific is now finished
to the PeWbina river about sixty miles
west of Edmonton, Trains are now busy
carrying in material for the construc-
ticn of the big bridge over this river.
The Roscoe, Snyder 4 Pacific has been