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Show work of reconstructing every tariff sheet in existence on the basis of eleven classes instead of six at now, are chuckling chuck-ling to themselves at the indetiite postponement, post-ponement, and theie is n largo class of shippers also who would bo equally gratiiied if thoy knew how groat an advance in rates they escaped by the Trunk Line action. Some very fast time was made on the Canadia Southern on December 10. A special train carrying the oflieials of the Vanderbilt lines made the run from Clifton out to Detroit in four hours and tifty-six minutes. Deducting forty-two minutes for fourteen emergency stops, one regular stop of four minutes at Fargo, and two of live minutes each at Waterford and St. Thomas, makes the actual running time four hours. A number of wonderful spurts were made, during which the indicator showed that the train was travoling at the rate of 62, 68, 70, 72 and 73 miles an hour. The average speed of the train for the whole distance was 57.21 miles per hour, -t- -t- -- A meeting of the general managers of the western roads centering in Chicago Chi-cago was held at the general ollices of the Chicago, Burlington & Qtiincy to devise plans for the conveyance of passengers pas-sengers and freight during the world's; fair and to agree upon schedules. After a full discussion of the matter it was decided to take no definite action at that time, but to appoint General Manager Man-ager Benjamin Thomas of the Western Indiana road, a committee of one to ALONG THE WADS Twenty-Soven Locomotives Now Building , . in Philadelphia to go to New South Wales. 5800 MILES OF NEW TEACK LAID. The Trnnk Line Association to Explain Why it Kicked Against Uniform Classification. Twenty-seven locomotives are in course of construction at the Baldwin locomotives works in Philadelphia, which, when built, will bo shipped to New South Wales, Australia. This is one of the largest foreign orders ever filled at the Baldwin works, and, coming com-ing from an Australian province under the dominion of Great Britain, is very significant. These twenty-soven loco-. loco-. motives will bo used on a railroad owned and operated by the government Heretofore the English government roads were mainly supplied with Eng-, Eng-, lish-made locomotives. The contract 1 '. for tho iron monsters was made about two months ago, and the last one will -"ho finished in February. Ten of them are passenger locomotives built on the ordinary American plan, Iand are especially designed for runs on heavy grades and over sharply curved grades. The English locomotive is not so well adapted for mountain climbing and curve turning as are tho ones made at the Baldwin works. These ten passenger pas-senger engiues will each weigh about thirty tons, exclusive of tho tender, which, loaded, will tip the beam at the same figure. The freight locomotives ere of the heaviest and strongest build, and, with tender attached, will each weigh from eighty to eighty-rivo tons. The cost of the American made locomotive loco-motive is from$8000 to $12,000. Those destined for Australia will be sold to the government there for about $10,000 apiece, tho sale aggregating over $-'30, 000. confer with Director General Davis, Traffic Manager Jacob and other world's fair authorities, relative to their views and suggestions in the matter. mat-ter. It was given out at a meeting that the railroads are willing to act in harmony har-mony with the world's fair people in the matter of transportation and schedules. sche-dules. ---- The year 1890 has been remarkable for railroad consolidations. The sharp rivalry between the large systems has led to the absorption of many of the weaker lines, either for the purpose of securing valuable connections or terminal ter-minal facilities or to prevent rival systems sys-tems invading exclusive territory. The absorption of smaller roads in Ohio has been one of the notable featuros of firogressive railroad management. No ess than fourteen roads have become a part of other roads or systems during the year. Railroad oNte.. TheTJ. P. Freight wreck near Lehi yesterday morning, caused by a broken rail, was cleaned up in a few hours. John Hull has been appointed foreman fore-man of tho boilor shops of the Utah Central branch of the U, P. system at Salt Lake. Vice-President Reiuhart of the Atchison At-chison system, states that the Colorado Midland purchase has been completed without increasing the capitalization of the Atchison, which stands ot $102,000,-000. $102,000,-000. C. F. Adams, ex-president of the Union Pacilic, has been spending some days in Pittsburg. Rumor says he may possibly connect himself with the West-inghouse West-inghouse interests. Another is that a $10,000 editorial position was offered the gentleman. The Pennsylvania railroad company will run four solid trains between New York and San Francisco February 7, March 8 and 20, and April 14. Each train wid take a different route, and returning re-turning will leave San Francisco March 14, April 8 ami 24 and May 14. Car "010" which was used by ex-President ex-President Adams of the Union Pacilic, and in which he traveled to Salt Lake, is in Omaha ready to receive its new master, S. H. If. Dillon. For years the transoms of this car carried mottoes which a man had painted in hopes of winning the favor of Charles Francis Adams. The sentiments were: "God hates liars. Truth is mighty then why lie." Mr. Adams had them erased some time ago. . This morning a special containing Rio Grande Western oflieials and their guests left Salt Lak? for Manti. A celebration cel-ebration will occur at the latter place over the completion of the extension of the Sevier Valley branch. Heretofore the line has extended from Thistle to Mount Pleasant, and now it is at Manti. On January 1 the new portion of the road will be open for business. At that time a train will leave Manti at 5:1)0 a. m. and arrive at Salt Lake at 11:03 a. m.; leave Salt Lake at 4:55 p. ra. and arrive at Manti at 10:35 p. m. This will give business men about six hours in Salt Lake. Summaries are prepared showing by groups of states the mileage of track laid on extensions of steam railway lines in the United States upon which regular trains are to be run to do busi-' busi-' ness as common carriers of both freight and passenger traffic for the calendar year of 1800. Aceo-ding to the ligures presented the total addition to the country's railway mileage between January 1, 1890. and January 1, 1801, was nearly 5800 miles, or about 700 miles more than was laid in 1889. The total amount of railway completed January Jan-uary 1, 1891, is 107,172, of this amount 1)8,912 miles, or over 22 per cent has been constructed (luring the last live years. The following table shows by groups of states the mileage of track iaid during dur-ing the last four years: 18H7. 1SSX. 188S. ISM. NewEngland VM Ifi ) OT Middle MIS aui 4S7 fcJS Central Northern.... Krl m ma 701 Booth Atlantic SM 1H7 1W5 l'J75 Oulf anil Mississippi Valley 15 0 8H 884 Northwentern 81-14 715 7rtrt ?8 J-aoltlo tlUl MM 61)4 RM Total 12,tW7 66; KW5 6775 H- J. P. Meany, editor of "Poor's Man-, Man-, tial," has three columns prepared regarding re-garding the condition of railways. The most salient features are tables showing the lluctations of stocks from May to December, tho tonnage, mileage mile-age and revenue of the roads whose Presidents were in session recently, and a comparative statement showing the growth by absorption, conso lida-tion lida-tion and construction of the leading systems during the past two years. A total of 04,130.8 miles of road were represented at tho Presidents' meeting. These roads move 10,202,507,791 tons of freight one mile and have freight earnings earn-ings of $223,889,801 por annum. Point is made that an increase in rates or morei property a maintenance of esj tablished schedule rates of only 1 mill per ton per mile means an addition addi-tion to the gross revenues of these companies com-panies of $19,204,805, equal to nearly 4 per cent; on $500,000,000 capital. Within a few days the Trunk Line association will issue an addros containing con-taining in detail the renaona for in ad- verse action on the now uniform classification. classi-fication. The western friends of this great project are greatly disappointed. The classification is the result of two year's labor, and had been adopted by every traffic association in the country except the Transcontinental and the Trunk Line. Everybody anticipated a hearty ratification by the trunk lines and an earlv adoption throughout the country. The rate clerks, upon whom would have developed the immense |