Show I BAILWAY CIECLES am HEINTZ RETURNS FROM HIS I TRIP TO CHICAGO > Aevr Rate Sheet Will Go Into Effect iou i-ou Starch 1 Great Interest Taken I In Mcrcnr crctr i George W Heintz of the Rio Grande Western returned yesterday from a trip to Chicago His mission east was to assist in adjusting the rates which have been off for sixty days past The adjustment was made and a new rate sheet will go into effect on March 1 While changes are made to Utah points the business has been adjusted between St Paul and Missouri river points rver Mr Heintz reports that the recent heavy snow storms interfered seriously with the business of the prairie lines although it did not affect the mountain roads to any extent The people in 1 the east hiV heard a great deal about Mercur and much interest is taken in the Utah gold camp Business is picking pick-ing up in Denver and gold mining will be prosecuted in Colorado this year as never before i Railway Notes i Assistant Superintendent Snyder of the Rio Grande Western was doing Ogden yesterday I The progress on grading of the Midland Mid-land Terminal railroad now indicates i that the mils will be laid to Cripple Creek by April 1 Roadmaster Selby of the Rio Grande II Western got one of his feet frozen in the recent blizzard while busking snow between here and Ogden and the freeze is a serious one The Gulf road will build a roundhouse round-house at Trinidad and do some of the repairing there Denver people are up in arms against the project but they cant have quite everything General Passenger Agent Goodman of the Southern Pacific wires that the Colorado legislature can have transportation trans-portation from Ogden to San Francisco Francis-co at the regular Midwinter fair rates They are not in it with Utah law makers mak-ers ersReceiver Receiver Wilson of the Santa Fe has announced that the road will pay l taxes assessed against it in Kansas though under protest as it is claimed the board of railroad assessors as-sessors have unjustly disC m nated against i The gigantic rate war threatened arises mainly from the Southern Pac fin notifying the Santa Fe that it would not accept that roods tickets from Los Angeles to San Francisco The big road can now make the Los Angeles Ange-les rate apply to Frisco and the Southern South-ern Pacifl will have to counteract that 15 difference from Ogden westward Two railroad officers in Chicago have refused to give testimony on rate cutting before the federal grand jury a required by the Interstate committee tee and the judge ha made an order compelling them to show why they should not answer Indications are that the Denver Rio Grande will build a branch line towards Pass New Mexico I will branch off from the chilly line at Embudo and run through Copper hill 1 miles distant President Jeffry and Otto Meats have canvassed the ground with a view to that end The Colorado legislators would feel egsJators hurt now they are told on the quiet that by coming to Salt Lake to purchase pur-chase tickets they might be able right now to get unsigned round trip tickets to San Francisco for an even 30 Possibly Pos-sibly the tickets might already be used from the east this far unsigned and being strangers they might have to attach their signatures as an evidence that all was on the square The Gulf road has perfected in detail de-tail a traffic alliance with the D R G and the papers will be signed up this week Under the old trackage agreement the TJenver Rio Grande laid l the third rail between Pueblo and Walsenburg and the Gulf road stood the expense besides paying 160000 per annum for running their trains over it The new contract is virtually the same The Denver and Rio Grande Express company and the Western Express company have murged into one and will operate the gulf lines instead of the Pacific Express company commencing commenc-ing April lats This will give the Wells Fargo Co an inroad to Colorado business busi-ness that they could not heretofore obtain The clouds are thickening about that ironclad Utah antipass agreement and when they roll by matters will assume that olden phase bereft of that annoyance annoy-ance i now knows Of course all parties part-ies have scrupulously observed Itits the other fellow that fell down on the thus matter of violation Twas ever |