| Show mm MERCUR BROKE RECORD road handled cars last week INCREASED CREASED ORE SHIPMENTS As hood boad only has three engines it speaks well tor for operating dopart department doi dei part ment chairman aldace I 1 walker of santa fo in in salt lake president mellen mellea of oc northern pacific outlines plans tor for idaho will build to buffalo hu hump MP it and d C camas mas prairie alaska bates cut for the week e riding ending july 2nd and last lait la it the soft salt lake mercur railroad handled both east and westbound an oven evert irto IN cars this included ingoing said outgoing out coln freight ore are trains and pa coaches this Is in ia excess of any eat coi responding period in the history of tho the road and yet the comp camp is in its iia infancy the record discloses a 0 material in no creaso in the iho volume of ore that was pulled over the range from the properties of the die mercur mining I 1 company while bile the increase in the body of 0 machinery taken in vast mas equally it notable ot while explosives were mere delivered III at the camp in unprecedented quantity thi the new ground that ts Is being opened up the increased production of tile the older properties and the constantly increasing payrolls pay rolls rolla all afford assurance assum nee of even further increase in the oarn earn ings this feat li Is also remarkable from tile the fact that the salt lake rot cur has but throe three locomotives and the work of h handling this truffle speaks I 1 well for tho the operating department taken take n with fill the grades and curvature nr the title little road it is a good all through bof through C CHAIRMAN WALKER HERE stops over oter S several hours on I 1 his if s way west aldace F walker chairman of the board of directors of the santa fe system arrived in salt lake morning ho lias accompanied by mrs walker alker and bries arles mary walker Valk cr his fork clerk and secretary the rall railway ay magnate ma 9 rate stopped slopped lit in aalt sit lake but a few hours I 1 ours continuing its his journey on I 1 tho it a rio grande We Western sterns fl no 9 in time to connect with mith the afternoon train iraln firm fim ogden via the southern pacina G general C h agent warren of the santa sant fe fc and other railroad officials called upon thy the visitor also dr and mrs T B beatty mrs realty beatty being a relative of tho the family the visitors i occupied occur led one of the at if clot ears cars of the santa fe fc company NORTHERN PACIFIC PLANS president geuen gives out important information president C S mellen mc llen of the he northern pacific was mas in leniston ida recently and the tribune of that pi place ace prints an interesting intern interview jew with mill him A summing up of the work that president mellen announces bis big company hns has decided unon Js Is as follows the he clearwater extension which will be completed sixty miles by november will be extended on to camas prairie and probably to buffalo hump the extension will bo be pushed on to nezperce Nez perce a branch will mill be built up the potlatch Pol latch from deddrick Keri Ked drick twenty five nc mile into tile the white pine timber and it if the oregon railway sc navigation does not make a suitable arrangement with the northern Nor thein pacific for a joint use nae of the along the snake river from lewiston lew iston the Nor thein n pacific 1 will III bridge the river at this point and build to a connection with their eureka flat line thus giving them a through line to the coast NEW ALASKAN ROADS canada will secure adirent a direct overland route new york tork july 24 A special to the tribune Trl bun from ottawa ottana ont says gays tile canadian canadia 11 northern no railway 11 we y company Is the result of an a amalgamation rn miga of the winnipeg great northern northera orth rallay railway and the lake manitoba railway canal company the aut holland capital la Is divided into of aioo 1010 each the lips hoad onice office Is to be at toronto and tile the are frederick chella james gunn john al smith archibald J sinclair ant and harcourt vernon all of tho ally c ity of toronto the railway company Is empowered to issue bonda not to exceed excecil a mile but it la Is prohibited from amalgamating with the canadian pacific railway or any of its branches es or with any branch lines leased b by v tile the car Ca nadlin pacific railway or under its ft control the company is to have lave five years to complete us its line lite south mouth of Sm saskatchewan katche ai an river a and nil seven 5 cars to earn complete picks the line nui eulth th tit of the saskatchewan river and it Is iri proposed to construct branches to rort port albeit edmonton Kd monton to lo place liver and from reel rd deer to luke lake glnn the hudsons Hud sons buy bay yukon railway navigation company Is to chance its name to hudsons Hud sons day bay Nort linest rallay railway company the klondike mines hallway company y has tor for its incorporators thomas oerlin of damson daw eon city james arthur I 1 seabold of ottawa william ross of Glas glasgow gom N S and llewellyn 11 II bato and harold III govern of ottawa the capital of the company Is fa to lie be and the head oice omec of the company at ottawa the company coin piny Is empowered to construct a single or boulle line of railway or tramway in klondike city aiom klondike city along the klondike liver alver to lr bonanza beek front from tio nanza creek creck to in the 1114 divide div v ide aiom fi om the dilda dl to dominion creek aiom dominion creek to indian river from indian river to tile the yukon civer from yukon river to dawson dawon city and may construct branch lines i c on n river hunker creek beau frock re k quartz creek sulphur creek el dorado creek creck and other crocks creeks it may maintain and operate telegraph telephone lines hinr elc cie and may enter into a contract with or may tile HIP lines fi flout oin any other oilier company and may conn conned act its lines with any tele tc le grup erash I 1 or telephone companas comp anys lines in ill the hie united stitch the company may issue bonds to tile the extent of a I 1 little of its rall railways ways and tramways tram ways i alaskan rates demoralized chicago july 21 the demoralization in alaskan rates 1 Is 13 3 arneal I 1 ng T the he I 1 rot lc islin island announced H today i alia lot t I 1 it bubl would put in tile hie aurnt basing rate rot for I 1 the Blisso missouri url I 1 liver iver as aa in effect front from st paul making the rat ral from Spatt li to chicago via the lie river I 1 instead of 52 50 1 I 1 chinese train spotters I 1 Acco according iding to till sun san francisco ti intner cenec hv are employed emp by tile ill SOU southern southwill pacific us spotters Al amialy iAly six lave been d dropped arpod an ono or them I 1 lunning out of ogden lit in coni 0 sequence th the trainmen are br suspicious of all chinese railroad notes railroad a had their hands handa rull full yesterday yesterday the white pass pas yukon Is completed p gilted to lake B bannett n net t alaska the sierra valley Is surveying for an extension from plumas cali to reno nov nev the rio grande western is IB now actively at work mark on three extensions and three changes chances in the iho main line alln gonera 1 manager lanair lana Kr E D dickinson of tho union pacific mill all stop in salt lake on hla return from california superintendent james eggleston Eg gleaton of the pacific express with m tit his daughters daugh tera and an general superintendent F C gestach of the pacific express are at the kenyari tho the denver republican has the follow oi ins ing nash flash heal aloi modean gan rules the union pacific have not a dollar invested in the road alalvin hughell responsible far keeping them out of the overland route those thema who know of the close financial reli the close tlona between the he three men x hlll it bei be surprised at this ihla news I 1 tile chicago northwestern him has put in service four of its ian trains between chicago and menominee and chicago and milwaukee C cafe are parlor cars cara m velch aitch are a combination of parlor dining and cafe cars meals are served in the 1 ho dining compartment by the card lit jn the parlor car compartment are ft citing leaks desks with mith stationery and the dally newspapers |