Show L IN RAILWAY CIRCLES I iiI ii t S The Transcontinental Association Ir Tiling of the Past i r I SILVBE CITY AND NAMPA ROAD t Extension on the Oregon Short LineNew Rio Grande Western Hotel at Glen S wood Personals t S An eastern syndicate is making arrangements arrange-ments to construct a broadgauge railroad l from Welseron the Oregon Short Line to the Seven Devils region of Idaho distance dis-tance of About one hundred miles The Union Pacific Is the controlling spirit of ibo undertaking and it is expected the liner line-r will be extended to Lewiston t THE TRANSCOXTIHENTAT PASSEXGEB ASSOCIATION ASSOCI-ATION rJ OMAHA Sept 14Special to HKBALD K L Lonshx general passenger agent of the Union Pacific who has just beau attending at-tending a four flays meeting of the transcontinental 5 trans-continental association suid in speaking oft of-t the passenger situation I have no douot that the transcontinental is a thing of the past and yet the roads remaining may form a pool against those that are out but > 0 that is hardly provable Should the Northern Pacific folks follow the course of tho Great Northern and Canadian Pacific I presume the Union Pacific Wuuld be compelled to do likewise like-wise as a matter of seUintereet I am a firm Advocate of the pool and 1 believe the interstate commerce commission is largely of that mind with apool the smaller of the differential roads get as much protection as the larger roads snd there is a great deal more harmony ex ting t-ing than under the present arrangement of lormintr roads in a district into associations with equal powers But the unrest is not conned con-ned alone to the transcontinental association The Burlington has given notice of its withdrawal with-drawal from tho western traffic association 5 which means that other road Twill follow andS and-S the collapse ol the association made entirely probable THE 25AJIPA AND SILTEH CITY ROAD r The Boise Slatftman has the following today If any person has a doubt that the Nampa and Silver City railroad is to toe constructed and at the earliest practt ceble moment That doubt will probably disappear when ills known that the Union Pacific Railroad company is not only doing all within its power to encourage the building build-ing of the proposed line but tbat it has actually contracted to allow tho new company com-pany the use of its rolling stock and to matte the most favorable concessions as to freight ana passenger traffic Tao tracks of the Nampa Silver City road will be connected at Nampa with tho through line or the Union Pacific and a car loaded with ore at Silver City will go through to Salt Lake or to Denver without change The arrangement regarding the rolling stock was made at Nampa several weens ago at a conference between Union Pacific t officials and the promoters df the proposed t road This compact renders it unnecessary f for the new concern to invest u single dollar iit dol-lar in locomotives or cars and has done I much to insure the buiMinc of the road If Ben Wellington of Weiser was in the city last night Ho informed a reporter that a man was now In the east in the interests in-terests of the proposed Weiser Sc Northern railroad S It is eald that the Union Pacific company dpleabed with the extortionate demands Of several Boise properly owners is in no hurry to build from tho bluff into the city Anti that no further action will bo taken until next year XinV3UO OilATvDS WESTERN HOTEL The new Raymond Whitcomb hotel at Glonwood on the Rio Grande Western rod is nearing completion The hotel is 224s200 leet flimensions will contain 200 ifutsi rootas dancing banqueting hall hath rooms etc The Uio Grando Western peojla say it will be ono of the finest hotels t 5 in the country and will be made a stopping point by tho excursion parties going over t their road JPEHOJfAL AND GENERAL t C S JAe general passenger agent of the Colorado Midland at Denver IB in the city The earnings of the Chesapeake Ohio for tea month of August were over tlOOOODO Jo 4t Cotjiagton of the Union Pablfio auditors au-ditors office at Omaha stopped off in Salt Lake yesterday en route home from the Pacific coast Tb gross earnings of the Cleveland Cia I cteBU Chicago Li St Louis railroad forth for-th outh week of August shows an In i t t rsse of b082 i S t Th Kio Grande Western railway has arranged JI ar-ranged for an excursion from this city to f Castilla Springs on Sunday Sept 25 to give an opportunity to all who have not already t al-ready visited that favorite resort to do so r before the season closes The special will toure Salt Lake at 1039 a m |