Show I NEWS OF RAILROADS IN CONDENSED FORM J D Smedley who has lias been working near Price Utah for the Ely J Iy Construe Construction Construction tion company is lit ft the city for a few days He Ito reports n that on the line being constructed by th the Southern Utah coni com company pany pan from the Miller Creek coal mines minos not northwest to Price about twenty miles mile the grading grad In has been completed for a dis distance dl tance of about eight miles and that track laying will be started about April 1 1 On April 7 stockholders of the Southern Pacific are to vote vIte on the question of authorizing an Increase of the common stock by of which as much muchas muc as necessary shall be set st aside to pro provide provide provide vide for an issue of 4 per cent cont O ear bonds convertible until June 1 1919 1911 at the option of the holder into common stock at the rate of 13 per share The holders of both common and preferred stock ar arto are arp areto to be given gien the privilege of subscribing on or before April pil 20 0 for of these convertible bonds The offering price Is 86 96 and stockholders may ma subscribe to the tha extent of 30 per cent of their holdings F T Vincent commercial agent here for the Eric Erie Dispatch will leave today for fora a northern trip to t last about a week A VW IV Randall traveling freight and passenger agent for the Rock Island rail railroad railroad railroad road has returned from cram an extensive trip to points in eastern and southern Idaho F A Wadleigh assistant general pas passenger passenger passenger and ticket agent for the Denver Denyer Rio Grande railroad will visit this city this week weak arriving here from Denver either today or tomorrow V Sidney Bamberger vice president of the Salt Lake Ogden railroad left m yesterday and ard will arrive home homo today from his trip to California in search of an electrical engineer and to get got facts concerning the operation of railway lines by electricity President Simon Bamber Bamberger ger gIr his lila father received ree a message from him yesterday esterday stating that the man em employed emploYed cm by him in San Fransisco FranIco to take charge chargo of the electrification of tho the Salt Sal Lake Ogden road and to later manage its operation under the new system would arrive in this city about the first of next week Sidney Bamberger left San Fran Francisco Francisco Francisco cisco some days ago and has been spend upend ing some time in Sacramento ing the operation of the electric railway system there He writes write that his lIs trip trl has been be n exceedingly I profitable |