Show RAILROAD RACKET 5Ib All About the World on Wheels Local Roads and Miscellaneous Miscellane-ous Notes The D 8s R G brought fifteen cars of coal into Provo yesterday from the Utah Central mines The Pullman Car Company have 13000 blankets If yon dont believe be-lieve this give the porter 50c on a cold night and he will show you one Arrangements have been perfected per-fected for running either Pullman or Wagner sleepers between Ban Francisco and Chicago without change The Union Pacific Company has reduced re-duced its floating debt 3000000 from the collateral trustoan and after all fixed charges are paid and 7 percent per-cent dividends it will have a surplus sur-plus of 1000000 This is an exceedingly ex-ceedingly good showing Sidney Dillon president of the Union Pacific and Utah Central passed through Ogden going east Friday morning He was met at Ogden by Superintendent Sharp of the U C who accompanied him as far as Evanston returning home on the evening train The special train carrying the Wyoming legislature to Cheyenne pulled out of the Utah Central depot de-pot at 2 oclock Saturday afternoon and expects to make the fastest trip yet made between here and Cheyenne Chey-enne but owing to the weather we are inclined to doubt iti success The Railway Conductors Monthly is the name of a new magazine just gotten out under the auspices of the Order of Railway Conductors and it is a very interesting as well as a handsome publication and reflects much credit upon its editor Mr C S Wheaton G C COn C-On Friday last the Union Pacific established a secondclass passenger passen-ger rate from Salt Lake to Butte Deer Lodge and Garrison of 2925 and to Helena 833 45 The first class fare to Gunnison is 3510 and to Helena 3930 This reduction will be of great benefit to miners decamping for Cceur dAlene The Central Pacific Railroad company com-pany has in its employ 89S6 people Including 438 clerks 225 agents 221 conductors 740 station laborers 740 brakemen and flagmen 3452 labor 287 steamer hands 304 engineers 388 firemen 12 draughtsmen 570 mechanics and 50 watchmen drawling drawl-ing wages of from 40 to 250 per month The telegraph informs us that Mr W H Burns local agent of the Union Pacific at Council bluff < has been appointed general agent thereof there-of all the lines in the Western Trunk Line Association Agents of the other lines members of the association have been instructed to report to Mr Burns as their superior supe-rior officer Daniel Harbaugh while coupling cars at the D R ij depot in this city last Thursday night got badly pinched and bruised about the groin caused through the draw heads of one of the cars breaking He is at the Holy Cross Hospital under treatment of Drs Benedict and Pike and will probably be able to get around again soon Mr F N Sheltonfrom the freight auditors office at Omaha has been appointed assistant general agent of the freight department of the Union Pacific in this city and Mr George J Needham will hereafter act as soliciting agent as successor to the muchly departed Wolfe Mr if B McConnell general agent has gone to Omaha in response to a summons from Assistant Manager Kimball The car shops of the Utah Northern division of the Union Pacific road at Eagle Rock Idaho are full of work They are at present pre-sent engaged on fifty new box cars that are to have a carrying capacity of 30000 pounds A new baggage car 42 feet by 8 feet 2 inches has just j been completed The road is putting Miller platforms on all its passenger cars and double brakes on its freight cars The passenger train from south on the Utah Central Saturday afternoon after-noon was about two hours latebaing delayed by a north bound freight train which became snow bound at the Point of the Mountain Trains between Milfoid and FriECO have also been considerably delayed by snow The Utah and Northern has experienced more trouble from snew this winter than at any time before The passenger train die in Ogden last Monday night dd not arrive until Thursday and at onetime one-time a freight train was competely lost Snow in Beaver canyon i < reported re-ported from five to seven feet deep for a distance of a thousand feet The D B G people have also had considerable trouble but claim that none of their passenger trains have yet been blockaded and that I delays from snow on their road have been to freight trains only WAS PREPARED It is my duty to inform you said the superintendent of a New England railroad as one of the train conductors entered his presence pres-ence that the salaries of all trainmen train-men are to be cut 10 per cent with the beginning of the month Yes sir was the calm reply reI am glad you take such a cheerful cheer-ful view of the situation Oh Ive been expecting it for BIX months past said the conductor conduc-tor uIve put all my real estate in my wifes name clapped a chattel mortgage on all my personal effects and raised 5200 on a banknote which the indorser will have to pay Make the old cut 30 per cent if you want to for this is the only time in my life Ive been in a position to beat my creditors Wall Street News |