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Show if'.'O.OOO.OOO to build the Colorado, Utah & Pacific on the recently surveyed route. Through to tiie Coast. The broad gauging of the Denver & Kio Crando was completed com-pleted last Friday us far as New Castle, and it is announced that the track of the Kio Grande Junction will bo finished to a connection with the Kio Grande Western by the 15th of September, so that standard gauge trains will soon ho running from iJeuver right through to the l'acillc coast. The Kio Grande Western ollicials have been anxiously wailing for several months for the l)en'ver & Kio Grande to get its broad gauging done, so they could run through trains to Denver.and now their freight trallic will bo largely increased. I-'or the 1'iochn Ettenaion. The track laying machine is due at Milford. Utah! tomorrow. S0.0II0 ties are at I'rovo awaiting shipment to Mil-ford Mil-ford to be used on ttie extension. 110 miles of the road was finished August 1, and received; S" miles more are finished fin-ished which will be received by the 1st. of .September, leaving but 10 miles more to complete the contract. We understand under-stand that as soon as the track gels to Dcsercl Springs freight will be shipped to that point and also that passengers will be taken on there. Trains will be running into I )eseret Springs by November Novem-ber 1st. The General Passenger Agents Tho chamber of commerce is preparing prepar-ing a special programme for tho entertainment enter-tainment of the general passenger agents who will arrive in this city on the y.ird inst., :i Iter the close of their national convention which will be held at Denver. They will be driven about the eily in the tally-ho coach Raymond, taken id the lake, tho Tabernacle, l-'ort Douglas and all other pointsof interest. Hallway Notes unci Personals. CMr. Kccles will return from Portland on Wednesday. Pacific Short Line engineers are making mak-ing a preliminary survey from Kvanston lo Poeatello. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen Fire-men will meet in Kan Francisco in national na-tional convention on the 10th inst. Only oOO feet of bench remains to be taken nut nf the Tennessee tunnel, and it will bo completed about September '.'(Mil. Tho earnings of tho Denver & Rio Grande for the second week in August were $IO,,"i(H) in excess of the same period last year. 1). S. Spencer of tho Union Pacific general office, left for San Francisco yesterday accompanied by Mrs. Spencer, Spen-cer, for a short vacation. Work will bo begun today at the heading of the west end of the Pando tunnel, on tho Denver & Rio Grande, between Leadville and Red Cliff. J. F. Meyer, chief clerk of the master mechanic's department of tho Union Pacific at Poeatello, will accept a similar simi-lar position on the Pacific division. The railroad superintendents of Colorado Col-orado will meet at Denver this week to form an organization which will probably proba-bly be known as tho superintendents association. The jurisdiction of Assistant Kngiueer W. A. Baleom has been extended over the first and fourth divisions of the Deliver & Rio" Grande with office at Pueblo, with the title of division engineer. en-gineer. It is generally supposed that S. B. llovcy will sue. ceed W. J. I ..awreuce as superintendent of tho western division of the Rock Island. Hovev is now trainmaster of that road, with headquarters head-quarters at Goodland, Kansas. The Wabash announces that B. K. Garland, traveling freight and passenger passen-ger ageul, will have charge of the Portland, Port-land, Ore., territory, and that Ike M. Tonence, freight; contracting agent, will take charge of the San Francisco business. Tho Los Angeles agency is abolished. 1L4ILWAYJIUMBLINGS. The Western's New Trainmaster Contracting Con-tracting Freight Agents in the City. GENERAL' PASSENGER AGENTS, Condonsed News of the Western Lines-The Lines-The Utah & Pacific Personals and Notes. S. O. Snyder this morning assumed tho duties of his new position as trainmaster train-master on the Rio Grande Western. Mr. Snyder comes from tho Denver & Kio Grande and had been in the service of that roid for eighteen years, lie is thoroughly qualified for his' now position. posi-tion. The Contracting Freight AgcnU. A delegation of theconlracling freight agents, whose national convention has just adjourned at Denver, arrived in the city yesterday morning over the Kio Grande Western. Yesterday afternoon after-noon they attended the services at the Tabernacle and afterwards made a pilgrimage pil-grimage lo the lake and enjoyed a dip in the brine. This morning the parly, under tin- escort of Major Brown ol the Kio Grande Western and Harry Adams, of the Union Paci lie, listened to an organ or-gan recital by Prof. Dayncs at the Tabernacle. The professor first played an overturn of his own composition. This was followed by "Angels F.ver Bl ight and Fair." " The Pilgrim's Song of Hope," and closed with the Doxol-ogy. Doxol-ogy. The visitors were highly pleased. This alt ernoi m they will visit various points of interest, leaving for the east tonight. The personnel of the party is as follows: fol-lows: A. S. While, Missouri Pacific, wife and sister, Cincinnati, O. D. S. Wilson, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, and wile, Indianap'dis. L. L. Fellows, Midland line, and wife, Indianapolis. J. M. Beard, Krio railroad, Indianapolis. Indianap-olis. A. G. Long, Great Northern road, St. Paul, Minn. V. Liberman, ticket agent, and wife, Canton, O. The Kio timnile Southern. The Rio Grande Southern railway will lie opened this week and the trains be put in motion. General Manager Mcars stated the road would be in operation op-eration for a few miles aboirt the middle of this week. He also says tho work is progressing as rapidly as possible under the circumstances and he feels positive tho road will be in operation of November Novem-ber 1. There are now forty miles of grading completed from Dallas, leaving but twenty-live miles remaining, and the ten miles of grading on the Tellurido branch is also under good headway. Twelve miles of rails have been laid and noxt week trains will bo set in motion which will follow up the tracklayers as rapidly as they progress. President Otto Mears is beginning to make his appointments. A circular is out announcinglio appointment of K. M. Ridgeway as superintendent, with headquarters at Salida, and J. II. Ridgeway as assistant superintendent, with headquarters at Ridgeway. Next week trains will bo running 011 that part of tho road that has been coin pleted. Curs Arc Hca.if'e. The perplexing question that railroad men are now endeavoring to solvo is now to compensate for tho great scarcity scarc-ity in ears. It happens several times a year that the general current of the country's trade carries all tho cars into certain sections of the country. The country about tbiscily is drained of its cars from both sides. The unusually l:ii'"i- L'lain movement in ( '.ilU'onii:! Washington and Oregon demands an immense amount of freight accomodation. accomoda-tion. Tho farmers and grain dealers in those regions who have been holding their products for speculative purposes are now unloading on an active market. On the other hand the cattle trade of Kansas and Nebraska is active and enormous at present, and this keeps cars circulating between those limits and Kansas City, shutting off and western west-ern supply. The Company .Means llusluess. Tim Rio Grande Southern has asked the right of way through Telliiride. This is the only demand for building to the town. There is considerable opposition oppo-sition and many citizens insist on demanding de-manding money from tho company. The Journal, claiming to speak from official information, says thai it the right of way is not granted the company com-pany will build a town two miles dow n the valley, and not go to Telliiride at all. The Journal remarks: "for nine long years have we hoped ami wished and prayed for the welcome sound of the locomotive's whistle wilhUi our hor. der. and now that it is at our door, shall we be deprived the fruition of mr hopes? Relegate these money-grabbing schemers to I ho oblivion they will so conspicuously adorn and secure fur yourselves aiid your children the benefit bene-fit w ithin j our grasp." There Will lie lliit lion-. There is litUe doubt of a row at the meeting of the Western Passenger as sociation to be held in St. Louis tomeir-' row. All nf tho representatives are going into llio meeting with pockets full of tickets bought up against another road, and each agent will make his stand on the ground that his road has been an innocent spectator. Then will come the fun when the virtuous road is confronted wilh the "queer" tickets. Almost every linn in the association has been manipulating the rates, if not in the rcguhir offices then through the brokers. The talk now is that the agreement and rules will be revised and the association's asso-ciation's life extended for another thirty days, but whether or not ihis plan will be successful remains to be seen. The I tub and l'acillc. A meeting was held Saturday night at the olhce of the Colorado, l'tah & racilie Railway Construction company in Boulder, Col., for the purpose of asking the inhabitants of that city to subscribe for a construction fund of $100,000. The right of way through Left Hand was not enous;h to satisfy those in charge of the enterprise, but they ask the cash to iav for the construction con-struction of the road through tho citv. The property owners along the proposed pro-posed route have not vet been interviewed inter-viewed nor consulted in Ihis matter as tar as heard from. A $100.000 subscription subscrip-tion would only be a drop of water to the ocean, when it will require over |