Show TKffi RAILROADS Racket of the Roads Foreign and Local r Personals and Points Along the lines The great question with the rali roads and our merchants continues to b3 tte cut rates the interest not decreasing as many would suppose sup-pose bnt if anything growing more alarming This probably is owing to the fact that large consignments con-signments of freight have been ordered or-dered and some fear exists that they may not be received by the cut = tingHnes before the cheap rates are ountermandei Not only does this anxiety exist in Salt Lake but in many of the country towns whence telegrams are often received re-ceived anxiously inquiring if there is any change or prospect of a change in the situation The Union Pacific and Denver Rio Grande watch each ther with much anxiety for fear they will make other cuts or intooduce some scheme by which one will gain an advantage over the other However the soliciting agents are alive to the situation and never for forget get I to promise that whatever they offer you our company will meet and you need not go back on us on that account A rumor prevailed in Ogden on Friday that the rate between the Missouri River and Salt Lake had been cut to 25 cents per hundred hun-dred but as nothing definite was heard here it may prove only a rumor Yet it is well known that some classes of freight in car load lots are being brought through at a lower rate than 50 cents In connection with the large shipments ship-ments coming in we notice that the Standard Oil Co have received twenty car loads of coal oil D M Osborne v Co thirty five cars of macninery and agricultural implements imple-ments Jennings v Sons sugar Godbe Pitts Co drugs BaJey Son woodenw while furniture stove nails and other staple articles ar-ticles have been coming in large quantities On Friday last Mr G F Brooks received a carload of canned salmon from Astoria via the Northern Pacific which was one month in transit while the u3ual time required re-quired via the Central Pacific is nine days As this was the first car over the new route an improvement improve-ment may he expected At a recent meeting of the New York Chamber of Commerce the subject of railway transportation was made the principal feature and resolutions vigorously condemning the discriminating practice were adopted Among other tables presented pre-sented to show the extent of the practice was the following in connection con-nection with the Union Pacific and which was in effect prior to the recent re-cent cut Rates per 100 Iba from New York to San Francisco 8225 Salt Lake S495 Ogden 465 Dillon Dil-lon MT 8345 ban Francisco is I 800 and Dillon 400 miles beyond Og denA A prominent Denver Rio Grande official said on Friday that there would ba no advance over the present rates until the Union Pacific agreed to allow his road fifty percent per-cent of tht Utah business The action taken by Superintendent Superintend-ent Bancroft of the Denver Rio Grande to suppress the annoyance to passengers at the companys depot de-pot in this city from hotel runners hackdrivers expressmen and others is timely and commendable as the conduct of some of these men is beyond endurance It ia often the case that upon recognizing a lady as she alights from the train they impose upon her and calling her by name each makes a desperate effort to obtain her patronage very much to her embarrassment and dislike as in all probability she haa not the slightest reason for knowing them This same trouble was abated at the Utah Central depot sometime some-time ago but seems to be breaking out again Mr S W Eccles genaralagent of the D R G freight department returned from Denver last Thursday Thurs-day where he has been on private and official business Superintendent Sharp of the Utah Centralvisited the lime rock quarry at Hot Springs on Friday in the interest of a greater supply of rock as the smelters have been running very short and are often threatened with closing down Rumor has it that after building the passenger depot the Utah Central Company will put up freight warehouses on the corner one block south or the ticket office and move all merchandise traffic there which will be a great advantage ad-vantage to both the company and public as it will bring them two blocks near the centre of the city and avoid crossing so many tracks which is not only dangerous to life but damaging to merchandise and wagons Mr Francis Cope General Freight and Ticket Agent of the UtahCentra is busily engaged preparing a folder fcr that road which will not only give a correct map of the Utah Central but of the Territory and will contain statistical descriptive and other useful use-ful information for travelers and the public and be an artistic get up in every particular The fastest train in the world is the Flying Dutchman running between be-tween London and Bristol It completes com-pletes a distance of 118M miles making no stops In two hours being an average of 59 > miles an hour Germany is the next In order for fast running On the railroad be tween Berlin and Hanover a train is run which makes 152 > < miles in 3 hours and 48 minutes making an average of over 51 miles an hour Canada is ahead of the United States for fast travel a train from Coteau to Ottawa making 78 410 miles in 1 hour and 34 minutes or 50 miles an hour including stops In this country the fastest train is run on the Pennsylvania railroad between Jersey City and Philadelphia Philadel-phia a aistance of 90 miles which it makes in 1 hour and 52 minutes or 48 310 miles per hour including one stop The great under ground railway of London which is fast approaching completion is estimated to coat fifteen millions of dollars per mile lie length when completed will be twenty miles and will connect the Metropolitan Metropol-itan and district lines eastward and bring west and east London into the straightest shortest communication In excavating for the railway the contractors uneartheJ many Roman remains recalling the fact that for nearly four centuries London was governed bv the Romans and that Cannon and Watling streets were among their cheit highways The salary of Comaaifsionor Rig tine of the Transcontinental Pool Association is understood to ba 15 100 guaranteed for one year which is nearly equal to the pay of two members of the Presidents cabinet |