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Show TUG LUMBER BLOCKADE Mr, McElroy of the Eio Grande- Western Goes to Portland to Horry Up Some Big Orders. ARE BADLY IN NEED OF TIES. Messrs. Mellon and Campbell Were Wrestling Wrest-ling With the Same Problem Notes and Personals. V. I McKlroy. purchasing agent of tho Rio Grande. Western, left last evening even-ing for Portland, to hurry forward if possible large orders for lumber and ties for his road. This material is badly needed, and its shipment is being seri-I seri-I ously delayed by the inability of the Union Pacific people to supply the heavy demand for cars now being made upon them by shippers. From Portland Mr. McElroy will go to San Francisco, where the Rio Grande Western has also placed large orders for lumber. He will be absent about ten days. The lumber and tics, for which the Western has been waiting for several weeks, are wanted for the work of improvement going on along the line of that road. Ties are badly needed down in the Green river country, where so much damage was done by the recent washouts. wash-outs. The Western proposes to make some extensive improvements in the line of station and section houses, but until timber begins to come iu nothing can bo done. Considerable 'changes will also bo made at the depot in this city. The entire space between tho freight and passenger stations will be plat-fornied plat-fornied over and roofed for the convenience conven-ience of tho transfer of baggage. Regarding the lumber blockade, a Union Pacific ollicial said this morning that during the visit of General Traflic Manager Mellon and Traflic Manager Campbell of the Pacilic division arrangements ar-rangements had been made by which the lumber blockade existing on the Oregon Railway & Navigation company, com-pany, which was holding back shipments ship-ments into Salt Lake, had been raised, orders have' been issued to send forward as fast as possible a large amount of building material. Death of. I. C. .luiUon. A telegram was received by tho Rio Grand Western yesterday announcing the sudden death of J. C. Judsou. senior partner and excursion manager of the Judsou excursion company. Mr. Judson was still a young man and was extremely popular among railroad men He has, been recently running weekly excursions both east ond west via the Rio Grande Western, Missouri Pacific and Chicago and Alton. Tho business of the company will be continued contin-ued as heretofore and a competent excursion ex-cursion manager will bo appointed in a few days. A New Tram-Continental Line. Hon. John Leant of Seattle, Washington, Wash-ington, president of the chamber of commerce, at the head of a number of large corporations as well as ex-mayor of that city, in an interview at Denver was asked, '"What is the outlook for your expected expect-ed trans-eontinental railroad?" "It is good,'' was the reply. "The Union Pacilic for years has had a monopoly mon-opoly on the railroad business from the East to Puget Sound. Matters are changing now, however. The Great Northern, or what is known as the James Hill, Manitoba line, is now being pushed forward westward from Manitoba Man-itoba and east from Seattle aud it is expected that Manitoba will soou have a through line,- and there will be another an-other trans-continental line in America. The Union Pacific is also building east from Seattle to connect with its system at Portland. In twelve months this will be finished and it will be a traus-continel traus-continel line, too." Goddard May Keslgn, A special from Chicago says: There are rumors hero to tho effect that Chairman Chair-man Goddard of the Western Passenger Passen-ger association may resign, he being heartily sick of the way some of the railroads are carrying on in regard to tho cutting of passenger rates. Ho has appealed to the presidents of some of the western roads to have them disei- pline their passenger agents aud keep them in line, but ns the presidents have tried to do this and made a failure of it inthepast.it is hardly possible they will succeed now. Chairman Goddard thinks the passenger agents are running run-ning things with -two high a hand, but there seems to bo no help for it, and hence the rumors that ho may resign. Itailroad Notes and Personals. Dan Spencer, of the Union Pacific general offices, is back from ban Francisco. Fran-cisco. Geueral Manager Rosseguie returned from Idaho last evening. The trouble, at Montpclicr was, he says, a small affair. The approximate earnings of the Atchison At-chison system, including the St. Louis Louis it San Francisco railroad and ono half of the Atlanta & Pacilic, for August were, gross $8,4a,),221, increase $5yr,?o0. General Passenger Agent Charlton of the Chicago ifc Alton road has introduced intro-duced two phonographs into hisscrvice, and when he is busy and a man conies in to ask for a pass" or wants to explain the working of a newly patented enseal, en-seal, the caller is told to" talk to tho phonograph and call again. Mr. Charlton Charl-ton calls the phonograph his assistant general amaauensis. A strike of employees on tho street car hue among the graders iu Pueblo was occasioned by the employment of Italians to work on tho same grade, the anti-dago clement refusing to work sido by side with them. The strike has been settled by placing the strikers at a different dif-ferent point on tho works and everything every-thing is now serene, the dagoes recciv-mg recciv-mg the samy wages, $2 per day. lesterday's meeting of the general managers of lines iu the western passenger pas-senger association in Chicago considered consid-ered plans for changing the agreement and punishing the road's making iilegrl rales. Said Chairman Godard to-day, "lliere is no use in continuing as we are. The agreement must bo made stronger. Everything is sit loose ends and the beginning of the harvest excursion excur-sion season tomorrow will throw a lot ot unused portions of round trip tickets on the market to still further demoralize rates. The general managers appreciate appre-ciate the gravity 0f the situation, and 1 doubt not we can agree on proper amendments to tho agreement." |