Show NEWS JEWS OF RAILROADS IN CONDENSED FORM Gordon M I Fraser traveling freight frel ht and passenger agent for the Illinois Central Is on a trip to Idaho points point N E B Kirahan freight collection agent for the Salt Lake Route was visiting lo ho local cal representatives of that and other roads in this city yesterday ye He Ite was here I several hours on his way wa from Chicago to his home in Los Angeles C S Williams commercial agent for forthe forthe forthe the Chicago Milwaukee St t Paul rail railroad railroad railroad road accompanied by b his wife started yesterday for San Francisco They will willbe willbe willbe be away aW about a week The trip Is for both pleasure and business Henry R B general agent in St Louis for the Mexican Central rail railroad railroad railroad road is in Salt Lake for or a few ew days da s on a general trip through the west and north northwest northwest northwest west westIn westIn westIn In connection with other improvements contemplated on the Utah division of the Denver Rio Grande this season will be extensive work on the Provo canyon canon line where the company has had hart so much trouble this winter with snow and land landslides landslides slides J I L Wister ster of Iron county Is la in the city cit on business and ho he reports that the work in his section of or the country look looking lookIng looking ing to the building of o the Utah South Southwestern Southwestern Southwestern western railway Is progressing and anit that within a short time bonds bond will be floated and actual construction work started The main object of o the road it Is under understood understood understood stood is to move coal Harmony anthracite coal field I A local railroad representative not con eon connected with the Harriman system had a short talk with Julius re recently recently I nth when the director of maintenance of Ar o the Harriman line passed through Og Ogden Ogden Ogden den on his way wa to Chicago after spending some time with Mr Harriman in Califor California nia ala and he says that Mr talked very ery freely of contemplated extensions exten extensions extensions and improvements by b Harriman in inthe Inthe Inthe the west He confirmed the reports lately late circulated here that it was the intention to complete the double tracking of tle the Union Pacific from rom Omaha to Ogden and I said that work to that end would begin very verv soon near Watsons ranch near Kearney Neb at the point where whore the double tracking In Nebraska now ends R n A Keyes labor l bor agent for the Ore Oregon Oregon gon son Short Line has returned from a trip to Boise Oregon Ort Short Line officials who have recently been on It a trip of Inspection over the line through Idaho and ami into Oregon report good progress being made on the Northwestern the road being boing built up the Snake river from Huntington In the party flarty were W H It Bancroft vico Ico president president dent lent and und general manager J 3 M t Davis general superintendent William Imam Ashton chief engineer W V H n Jones division su au superintendent and W V S Harrier division engineer They The wont went over 01 the part of that road s a In far Car completed and one on of them stated yesterday esterday that the construe construction construction tion has been completed for or n a distance of miles to Powder river The Tile grading has been completed for ten ton miles farther north but rail laying was as Inter Interrupted Interrupted interrupted on account of the building of a 1 steel stool bridge over OST the river A crew of men is at work there It is 18 announced d that the Oregon Or gon Short Line will ill soon receive for use two fine new steel passenger cars which cost 19 W 1 00 each which are art now on their way west wes est These cars will ill each have a seat seating seatIng seatIng ing capacity of o persons and anda a baggage room that will wilt hold twenty five fhe trunks also ago a section for mall mail They are for tor use on some of o the branch lines but Just where they will be placed In commission has not been decided yet et They are of o the type t pe of or steel car which has been found to b be very ery successful out of Denver and San Francisco The date for or the installation of the new ne fast train between Chicago and Portland over mer the tue Harriman lines has now no been announced as May 2 This train It Is stated will be electric ele lighted through throughout out with electric lighted berths observation observation tion car Pullmans and diner Some of the equipment for this new now service Is now on hand but new cars will be necessary before the service can be started The service will 11 require about first class new electric lighted cars The purpose of o the service will be to accommodate accommodate the big hI crowds that axe ase coming west to attend the Seattle exposition but it is it will be continued on after the fair air closes |