Show FEATURES OF INTEREST IN SHORT LINE RECORD The story or of progress on the Short Line Lin during the year 1904 is largely the story or The nd of f E H Harriman In the western railroad world The Short Line had a good year it branche out and made In many lines Jines and at the elo close e the road read readis is in th the t position in its his history history tory The new year opens with ever every promIse of heavy und and good profits ThE greatest change of oC the year fo I the Short Line c caine me ear early after a visit i of Julius to Salt Lake Lako Soon after the Union Pacific from Green WyomIng to Ogden and the Southern Pacific from O Ogden den to toReno toReno Reno Nevada were placed under the jurisdiction of the Short Line an ann operated from this point By thIs move the Gould interests were practically shut out of oC gateway was cID ed against them The next important move moye was the turning over of the Iu in cutoff to the operating the road This was aas done April 1 Freight trains began running over the great trestle In March Marchand Marchand and have hae continued to do so ever since The opening of the cutoff to pas pan passenger traffic took place Sept 18 al although although though sixty car loads or of Knights Templar were run rim over the trestle be before before fore that by specIal All regular Southern Pacific trains both passenger and freight have been tak taking takIng ing the short cut to and from the coast since Sept 18 Changes Among Officials Two 1 je were made In the or tho road d the year W r H Bancroft went to Omaha Jap take tak e charge of the Union Pacific without surrendering his control of the Short Line He returned April 1 and remained here till Nov ov 1 15 I when he was ns made mad acting general maR man manager I ager agel of the Pa of oC the II em Pacific with headquarters in San Francisco I The second change bange of importance was when E E Calvin was promoted from I the po position or of assistant general man manager aJer ager of the Short Line to the position of general mana manager er of oC the Oregon Rail Hail Railway Hailway way Navigation c company with ith head headquarters quarters in Portland to succeed A L Mohler He was succeeded on the Short Line here by E who ho holds the title of general superintendent dent dentIn dentIn In tile the matter of actual construction work the year was not a great one for forthe forthe the Short Line Several short branches and feeders in Idaho are under con construction construction and proposed Among Amon these Is the Minidoka branch sixt sixty miles from the main line at Minidoka to Twin Twill Falls Another is tt seven even and a half mile branch from Bolt Bose c to Bar hers bels Mills lilL Another it Is a four mile cut oil from nc aus to Bannock No 10 moves were made in the direction tion tio of constructing the more Important e ten lons proposed In Ut Utah h a branch brandl ot of two miles was to the United States from Atwood Junction and an OUter branch to the Highland Be Boy smelter from This is miles hong lono Much work was as done in Salt Lake in the way of grading Ute the new new switch yards In North Salt Lake Lakein In l laying ing ne new tracks and in building I a 0 roun round house a turn table and coal CORI chutes chu tee teeS S Better Detter Grip on Idaho I A round house of fifteen stalls and nd machine shops were ere built at Limit Montana a round house of twelve stalin staBs and machine shops were built at Glenns Ferr Ferry Idaho These were aU all equipped with the Erie heating system considered by many of oC the leading rail railroads railroads roads the best beet This system was also put in the round house and machine shops at Ogden steel rails raUs were sub substituted on long stretches of road read for forthe forthe the lighter rails previously used A stretch of sixteen mires between Castle Castie CastleRock Rock and Morgan was treated In this tray Another stretch of forty miles roiles between Hot Springs and Cache June Junc Junction tion wae Wab treated in a similar way wa Three hundred stock cars have been ordered and from ten to fifteen ne new passenger engines Pacific type have been added during the year ear to the rolling stock stok The Short Line system Is ie so well equipped with rolling stock and the tracKS are in such fine condition that thatis jt is thought little will be done along these lines during the comin coming year but that much enery nel will be devoted to the thc reaching out for new t I |