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Show THE RAILROAD RECORD. General Manager HosiE" Returns From His Trip to Portland. General Manager Hessigue, returned from Portland and north this morning, where he had gone' to accompany K. F. Atkins on the hitter's tour over the Short Line. Mr. Rtssigue said that work on the line from Tacoma to Seattle Seat-tle was being pushed as rapidly as possible. pos-sible. It is progressing very favorably except that there is a great scarcity of material there as well as iu this section. Surveying n New Line. A Ilocky Ford special in the Denver Republican says: A party of surveyors are at work along tho Arkansas valley. Nothing cau he learned from them as to what they are surveying for, but it has been learned that they are in the employ em-ploy of several Pueblo capitalists who contemplate building a railroad through the Arkansas valley from the state line to Pueblo. It. is said that the line is being built for the Rock Island road. The Lewigton & Southern. The Idaho Free Press says: From all we can learn the Lewiston & Southern South-ern railroad will build their proposed road to Camas Prairie next summer. Tho Union Pacilic people are' its financial finan-cial backers, and the outlook is realty hopeful for its construction next summer. sum-mer. Their surveyors are still cross-sectioning cross-sectioning for the route up Tammany hollow, and as near as we can learn they will follow that gulch all the way down to Snake river. The Firemen's Convention. The brotherhood of locomotive tire-men tire-men will hold their biennial convention at San Francisco, Cal., September 8th. Grand Chief Fireman Sargent will doubtless bo re-elected as the head of the national organization. AH the present railroad troubles will be fully and carefully discussed, and committees commit-tees will be appointed to consider the various questions and report on them during the convention. It is also very, probable that some very material changes in the ritual will be made. Railway Note and Pergonal. J. D. Cameron, chief of construction of the Northern Pacific, is in the city. J. II. Bennett of the Rio Grande Western left for San Francisco last evening. General Manager Dodge, of the Rio Grande Western, left for Denver last evening. Chief Clerk Opdyke of General Manager Man-ager Kessigue's office returned last evening from a trip to the north. The Union Pacific omployes at Cheyenne Chey-enne aro now working nine and a half hoursaday.iusteadof eight as formerly. Several railroad companies and banking bank-ing lirms aro trying to buy the Pacific Short Line and a sale will probably be made. The Rio Grande snow sheds recently destroyed at Marshall Pass are to be replaced by larger ones, of iron and lire-proof; the station building and roundhouse will be built of stone. |