Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-02-04
RAILROAD NOTES.

uupAhCoo iaSI week.
Herbert Micander, surveyor in the
employ of the company, spent a few
days here last week.
The private car Convoy with
Northern officials on board passed
through the first of the week.
Engineer Livingston returned from
San Francisco last Saturday. He un-
derwent an operation while in the
city.
The night switch engine crew was
taken off last week The one crew
that remains will go on at 2 a. m.
and work until p. m.
Ninety-five cars were hauled from
Roseville to Sparks on the Southern
Pacific by two Mallets. The time
made was very slow, however.
On account of the heavy load and
slippery rails it took five hours to
bring freight No. 221 from Medford
to Ashland Monday morning.
o. r. Garner and wife of Rose
burg stopped off for a few days visit
with H. Gillette, while en- route home
from the San Diego exposition.
On No. 13 Sunday a smallpox pa
tient was taken off at Grants Pass
and the car in which he had ridden
was cut out at Ashland and fumigat-
ed.
Walter Keene, helper to the host
Ter, was called to San Francisco last
week by the illness of his wife. His
place was filled by Roy Gearhart dur
ing his absence.
s. l.. Winning returned from an ex-
tended visit in San Francisco, where
he was called to take charge of a
bakery. The owner sold out the bak-
cry and sold Hank out of a job at
the same fell blow.
Southern Pacific trains will here
after stop at Seven Oaks and Rock
Point upon being tagged. The or
der refers to trains 13, IA, Is and
16, and supplies service to replace
the service of the motor which was
Withdrawn.
The slides at Sims delayed Tues
days trains so that they did not get
in from the south until Wednesday
and then floods in the Sacramento
Valley have delayed yesterday
trains so that they are just beginning
to come in at noon today.
On last Friday the weather bureau
at San Francisco sent out storm
warnings and the Hangers and plov
and engine were to be in readiness
but the storm got switched over to
ward Eureka and did not arrive OF
the Shasta division until two days
later.
With every appointment and fea
ture in accord with the occasion, The
Dalles business men entertained the
officials of the Oregon Washington
Railroad & Navigation Company al
an elaborate banquet at Hotel Dalles
The affair was a token of apprecia
tion of what the railroad heads have
done for The Dalles.
d Plans are under way for the merg
ing with the Southern Pacific Com
pany of its subsidiary systems in Ore
gon. The systems to be affected are
the Coos Bay, Roseburg & Eastern
Company, the Corvallis & Eastern
Railroad Company, the Portland, Eu
gent &c Eastern Railway Company
an electric system; the Salem, Falli
City & Western Railway Company
and the Willamette Pacific Company
The Southern Pacific Company
through it's claim agent, Fred Day
has effected a settlement with w. d
Turner, brakeman who was quite
seriously injured by being thrown
from a freight train near Merlin
about year ago. 1t is understood
that Turner was paid $4,000, as we
: as being given a substantial position
by the company. Turner made hi'
. headquarters in Roseburg for some
time prior to his accident, and Is wei
known here.
In the Southern Pacific building
at the Panama-PaRific Internationa
Exposition there VIII be as a centra
feature forest reproduction, usint
living trees, flowing water, etc. II
passing through, the visitor will fol
low a woodland trail and between
the trees and will see succession oI
panoramic scenes, showing perhaps
: fifteen OF the principal attractions
along the line. Among those planned
are Crater Lake, Cow Creek, Mt
: Shasta and Mossbrae Falls. These
will prove strong attractions to pul
, people into Oregon and to visit Cra
, ter Lake.
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