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Show but it soon died away and the concert proceeded. S. Francis Lee, commercial agent of the Canadian l'aciiic railroad in Chicago, Chi-cago, has been promoted to be district freight and passenger agent in charge of all territory in the United States west of Indiana, south of the "Soo" line ami cast of the Pacitic slope states. Ed. M. Corwin, brother of Superintendent Superin-tendent Corwin of the Union Pacific railway, with his wife and son, also, J. J. Uudd, wife anil two sous, of Burlington, Burling-ton, Iowa, arrived in Salt Lake City over the Denver, Rio Grande & Western West-ern on Saturday, on a visit for a week or so in Zion. These gentlemen are both passenger conductors on the Iowa division of the C. B. & Q. railway. RAILWAY RUMBLINGS. The Union Pacific's Triangular Water and Bail Trip Well Pa-tronized. Pa-tronized. , N0RTHEEN PA0IFI0 EXTENSION. Opening of The Eio Grande Junction Bail-way Bail-way to De Beque Railway Personals. The Union Pacific's triangular trip by rail and water, yesterday, was a great success. Some lifty people took it in and had a most enjoyable time. The train left the Utah & Nevada depot for Garlield at 7:30. The stop at Garfield was brief about half an hour. The trip on the Argo was without exception the most enjoyable part of the whole day. Lunch was taken at Antelope island and the party arrived at Syracuse Syra-cuse about 4 o'clock. An hour was spent at that resort. An unusually quick run was mado from that point to Salt Lake, and everyone arrived home well pleased with their day's outing. Northern J'acifle Kxtenalou, Chief Engineer Kendrick of the Northern Pacitic, speaking of the construction con-struction work of his company upon the Pacific coast, said there was now under construction over 300 miles of road. This consists of the Tacoma, Olynipia & Gray's Harbor branch line, which will run from Lake View, one of the suburbs of Tacoma, in a general southwesterly south-westerly direction along American lake, crossing Nisqually river near its mouth, to Olympia, thence to the junction of Black river with Chehalis, a distance of forty-six miles. Connection is made at this point with a branch now under construction from Centralia and it continues con-tinues down the Chehalis river to, a point on the south shore of Gray's harbor. har-bor. This is sixty-five miles from Centralia. Cen-tralia. About one-half tho grading has been done betweoa Lake View and Olympia. West from Centralia ten miles of grading has been done and live miles of track laid. The Yakima and Pacific coast line will leave tho present line at Chehalis and run up tho valley of Chehalis and then down to South Bend on Wallapa harbor, the northern portion of what is known as Shoal Water bay. The line will be lifty-four miles in length. Contract Con-tract for the construction of both these was let during Mr. Kendriek's recent visit to the coast. The several branch lines mentioned run in a southeasterly direction from Tacoma. Running northwest there are several which promise to bo equally important. These are the Green River and Northern, North-ern, running from Palmer, on the Cascade Cas-cade division, north to Durham, where the mines of the Pacitic Investment company are located. This line, when completed, will be eighteen miles in length. The Northern Pacillo & Puget Sound Shore, or, as it is more commonly called, the "Belt Line," is building from Black river junction northward along the east shore of Lake Washington Washing-ton to connect with the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern near Bothwell, a distance dis-tance of twenty-one miles. In addition to these 200 and odd miles upon the coast proper, the Northern Pacific is building a little over 100 miles of road east of Cascades. Contractors Donald, Smith & Howell of Spokaue Falls aro now building the Spokane & Palouse extension, which runs via Pullman, Bear Creek, and Potiach to Lewiston, thence up Snake river and Tanlmany' fulch to a point known as School louse, a distance of seventy-six miles, ft is probable that this line will eventually eventu-ally extend to the mining regions near Snake river. The Central Washington lino is being extonded from Elmira to Grand Coulee, a distance of twenty-seven miles. En- f;ineers are in the Held continuing this ino west of Grand Couloo to tho Columbia Co-lumbia river into what is known as the Ukanounh mining region. In addition to this 808 miles of road undor way, tho company is building largo shops at Tacoma. Ta-coma. . Heady For BuntneM. The Colorado Midland announces the opening of the Rio Grand o Junction railway to De Beque, a distance ' of forty-live miles from New Castle. Tho road has heretofore only been open for business to Rifle creek, a distance of eight miles, but one fell swoop, thirty-seven thirty-seven additional miles aro finished, and on today the first passenger train will have made its way along the tortuous route of the Grand river. There are several small stations on the line between be-tween New Castle and De Beque, but none have sottled up to any extent, except, ex-cept, perhaps, Parachute. De Beque is quite a flourishing little Tillage and tho people are delighted that they can hear the whistle of the locomotive. Tho Midland will receive freight today and passengers tomorrow for all points as far as De Beque. There yet remains to be laid about twenty miles of track before trains can run through to Grand Junction. With tho big force of hands now at work tho track could bo speedily completed, but several bridges have not boon finished, aud worse than that the timber has not boen secured. The management feel confident that regular trains will be running by September 15. Diverting Ituslnea. The Omaha Bee says; Among railway men who aro prone to criticiso the Union Pacific's schemes, it is current talk that the recent taking away of the Republican valley roads running from Valley nnd Columbus south, from tho Nebraska division and placing them in tho St. Joe aud Grand Island division, is to swell the earnings of that division and lesson those of the main line. Tho St. Joe and Grand Island is under a lease to tho Union Pacific and its bonds are guaranteed by that road. It has never been a paying property, and now aud then some kicker has charged that freight was being diverted to it from the main line to help it out. The deal by which the Union Pacific aud St. Paul and Omaha made a joint road from Sioux City to Lincoln, via Columbus, has changed the course of much business. When the Union Pacific, Pa-cific, Cheyenne and Northern road is completed this year to Douglas, Wyo., there will be another joint line with a northwestern road. Tho Elkhorn is another route which draws business away from the main line. . Railway Note. The second Canipobello concert at Garfield Beach on Saturday evening was an unquallified success. A little sfjuall came up early in the evening, |