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Show absolute ynoS ttl strike nt u i i la tlle report of a rm.iiir : t ' . 1U- "oleomb is cor- 2S d ",r a,re tl' mint-' ere-hlvohJ? ere-hlvohJ? tr?!,ble- Heretofore wages oulof U1'd outl'eoal as it came much t TV' ?nd as a fonsennenw anmn,, 1 Satlsfactlon has "isted both co ?nvveU.ar!d the part of the th it 2;, V1 1S VP to change been and, aflur 1,10 cl has KhSl..Wle!L rHy a new schedule of pnees ,m,st be arranged. ' Tlie Snow Shed Tire Yesterday Caused a Lobs of $25,000 to the Union Pacific. THE W0EK ON THE NEW YAEDS. A New Engine for the Utah and Nevada Salt Lake City as a Western Ter-minal Ter-minal Railway Notes. The Union. Pacific eastern train, which was due hero yesterday morning at 10:00 o'clock, did not arrive in the city until 7:25 in the evoniug. As was l slated iu last evening's Times, the delay Railway Notes. Sill trD,.h" relurncd from msui si inspection tour. ofntAiMle v "f the Uniou Pttcific fenl fi 1'aiM!. been trans-luned trans-luned to the olliees at this citv. Thonms W Striker will be assistant Wel.' 11Ie,l8,'s- the Rio Grande VV esteru ticket agent, with the titlo of uty passenger agent. V'" V c H- Bancroft, late superiu-mlent superiu-mlent of the Kio Grande Western, lUl this morning for Sau Fraucisco to ipcud a few days on the coast. The Union Pacific ollicials have decided deci-ded not to put a double dailv passenger service on the Fort Worth division. Instead, In-stead, they will improve the present seryico by making better time and securing se-curing better equipments. The Utah Xorthern has been broad ganged from MeCaiumon twenty-seven miles. Four hundred teams and 1200 men are at work, and thief Engineer McCartney says the eutire new stand-aid-gauge line ought to bo ready by September 1st. was causeu oy ure in mo snow sheds in Wyoming. It was the big shed near Tapioca thut burned. This was one of the largest along tho entire Union Pacilie line, and was about a milo iu length. Tho loss to the railroad company will not.be less than $25,000. Tho , train was compelled to wait until a track could be constructed con-structed around tho burning slicd. Everything was, of course, so hot that il couldn't be 'touched, and most of the delay was caused by getting men and materials on the ground. The Work Commenced. A gang of men was put to work by the Union Pacific this morning laying a track down Fourth West street. This Hack will enter the new yards, aud this is really the beginning of the work on the yards. All the' material is now uu the ground, aud the work will be pushed to completion. Superintendent C'orwin, Engineer aud Koadmaster Nickerson and Freight unci Passenger Agent Eccles went south on a tour of inspection this morning. They will go direct to Milford and make arrangements for the erection of a new freight station there. The one blown up, although it was one of tho best on this division, had for some time been inadequate in-adequate for the business of that place. A ne w engine was this morning placed on the Utah and Kevada. and the new cars ordered are expected iu a few doys. There is considerable talk about the I erection in the new yards of a new building for the general offices of the Utah division. This improvement is badlv needed. A Western Terminal. A correspondent of the Railroad Gazette Ga-zette says: Salt Lake City will, without doubt, be the next western terminal for a particular railroad district. That Salt Lake is growing rapidly into a great city is not questioned. The city is the center of a particularly rich country which contains immense wealth in minerals and large agricultural interests. in-terests. It is also the center of a stock raising country. So far as machinery and production are concerned, Utah is a consuming country, and it is not necessary to haul empty cars in any direction. The roads in Utah have a heavy local business; in fact they do not accommodate accommo-date half tho possible trade. This year will see a number of branches and extensions ex-tensions completed. The Utah CentrU has opened a new. line through the Wasatch mountains from Salt Lake to Park City. The Union Pacific is continuing con-tinuing its southern branch from Mil-ford Mil-ford southeasterly to the Pacilie coast. The Southern Pacific will one of these days find itself without the Union Pa-cilic's Pa-cilic's western business. Prosperity and progress have stepped over the western boundary of Colorado into Utah. Compare Utah to Colorado five or six years ago and add an immense area of land capable of raising rich crops and the conditions arc clear. The llunh Tunnel. D. Shanahan & Co. of Louisville, Ky., have been awarded the contract for constructing the Bush tunnel on the Colorado Midland railway. It will be 9330 feet long. The amount of the contract price is about $1,000,000. B. H. Bryant of Colorado Springs, Col., is tho chief engineer of the railroad, and has been in New York for some weeks past atending to the details of the work. Will Issue Patents. The Union Pacific land department has been notified that Secretary Noble, of the interior department will, unless otherwise instructed by congress, proceed pro-ceed at once to issue patents that have been withheld on land sold by that company to settlers along its lines in Nebraska and Kansas. It is said that they will cover about 2,000,000 acres. Mr. Noble declares that further delay in giving these settlers full title to the lands they have fully paid for and improved im-proved cannot be justified. Ilonght by the Union Pacilie. The Union Pacific has bought the property of tho Northern Pacific Terminal Ter-minal company, on the east side of the l iver at Portland, Oregon. The property prop-erty comprises about 250 acres of land adjoining Albina, with a river frontage f about a mile, also the shops erected hy tho terminal company at a cost of about $500,000, and the roundhouse, warehouse, coal bunkers and tracks. The Kallroad Company Won. The attornev-gcneral of Colorado Col-orado has Been defeated in a suit against the Union Pacific to compel it to operate the Colorado ) entral abandoned twenty years ago. The Union Pacific leased the Colorado Central, extending from Fort Collins, Colo., to Cheyenne, Wyo., in 1870, and immediately abandoned it. The United Slates circuit court iu deciding the suit liekl that the Union Pacific was not under un-der obligations to operate the line in 'iuestiou, iu view of the fact that the expenses incidental thereto would be iu Mcess of the receipts, owing to the isolated condition of the country. The Denver Bio O.reade. The Railway Age says: The standard gauge is not yet completed on the Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande proper, and it probably prob-ably will be two months before trains are running through to Denver via the new Midland and Rio Grande route. The history of the narrow gauge Rio Cl aude system is extremely interesting; "Hilt as it was. through a territory without competition, a complete sys-1 pra in itself, with a large busiuess at j '"eh rates, the road made money re-1 Kaidlosa of poor management. The j read was so located that the break in gauge did not cause anv great annoy-, :tnce or expense. That time has passed i :dthe great prosperity in the west has flight other roads iiito the territory "f the Rio Ornnde. and it has had to drop its individuality and become part "f the great system of standard gauge roads. The dar of narrow gauge roads 5 ever, and no other body of men will |