Show I RAILWAY CIRCLES Work Being Actively Pushed on the Salt Lake Eastern ANOTHEIl WAD HEADED FOR US Through Canyon City to Salt Lake A New System of Checking Baggage The Boat Club Excursion People driving through Parleys canon are surprised to see the progress that is being made by the Salt Lake A Eastern road now building from this city to Park city Since track laying was recommended a week or ten days ago at Eagle rock the old terminus about a mile of rails have texinus rs been laid and a large force of men is at work putting the steel in place There are two large parties graders at work One part is finishing up tho grade already constructed con-structed preparatory to the reception of the ties while the other and larger gang is pushing the grade from the summit down to Buzzo ranch I will be remembered the grade was practically prac-tically completed to the summit last winter and all the bridges were then put in There are still one or two heavy falls some trestle work and two or three cuts to be made ou this part of the road Judging from what could be seen from the wagon road tho greater part of the grade is completed from the summit to Buzzos and when the later point is reached the only difficulties encountered will have ben overcome From Buzzos to Park City the country is comparatively level and there is but little grading be done Beside the distance is short and the building of this oart of the track will be only a few weeks vork inn little road is going through with a healthy rush and i few months will see wonders accomplished in that directou The Suit Late Western Grading is being actively pushed on the like end of the Salt Lake western and it is understood the sUre s have been completed com-pleted to this city The exact intentions of the company are shrouded in a good deal of doubt but it is said that 11 Young owns a hue strip of beach there fully equal to that of Garfield and well t mo may develop just what there is in the movement Through Canyon City to Salt Lake Perhaps tho most important movement in railroad circles which has been foreahad owed for some time is the one now under consideration by the Rib Grande bj which I that line opuses to put down a third rail from Canon City to Utah I was learned yesterday says the Denver News that the mater had already been considered by the authorities hero and that they had arrived at the conclusion that it had now become an absolute necessity that some action I should be taken m order to provide means for handling the rapIdly increasing traffic of this line I is understood that the heavy traffic in ores over the narrow gauge has demonstrated the fact that I heavier rail and rolling stock is now essential to the proper conduct of their business The local authorities have made out a full report of tho facts which have led them to this decision and forwarded the same with the proper estimates of the costs involved in tho mater of this new enterprise enter-prise to the directors of the road in New York for their consideration and action with the urgent request that the matter be considered at once and that their decision shill bo made known at as cary a date a possible so that work can be commenced as soon as arrangements can be made therefor I has become a well settled opinion among the officials here said a prominent Rio drande man yesterday that something some-thing of this kind must be done and the te sooner it is accomplished the better it will be for the rOd Under our present ar raugemcnt we cannot satisfactorily handle our business I is understood that the development of the mining interests of the states eouufou ous to this line has in a large measure beeL instrumental in leading to this step is well u the increased traffic from Utah New System of Baggage Checking The general baggage agent of tho Union Iaciiie is upon a mission tho success 01 which will bo huled with delight by the traveling public who have suffered from the present inconveniences atteudint upon checking and rcciving baggage Mr Trai nors object is to induce the Denver lines to join the Union Pacific in adopting the new system now in vogue at many Eastern point by which baggage is checked to hotel or residence in the different cities instead of being checked to the depot To illustrate tho new plan A commercial tracer stopping atthe Windsor hotel in Denver departs for Chicago where he will stop at the Palmer house his baggage is checked direct to the Chicago hotel and not to the depot and the worry and inconvenience incon-venience at the baggage room is obviated I the traveler intends stopping ata private residence the baggagejis likewise checked to the street and number Duplicate checks arc utilized and excess baggage cared for by a system of interstate scales Mr Traynor contends that handling baggage in large cities can never bo modernized unless the present system is changed and for the reason that only a certain number of men can do baggage work in the depots where the quarters are cramped as in Denver Den-ver The new plan has been tried east and has given entire satisfaction Deuv ei A etc gven |