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Show NEW CARS AND ENGINES The Rio Grande Western Rapidly Making Mak-ing Its Equipment the Finest , in the West. TROUBLE ON THE SHORT LINE. Quite a Rush to Garfield Yesterday-Work Yesterday-Work Again Stopped on the Colorado Col-orado Junction Road, The Rio Grande Western is rapidly making its equipment tho finest in tho west. The new cars that came in with the broad gauge have not a poer in the country, and new rolling stock has been ordered right along since. The company has recently placed an order for eight large freight locomotives locomo-tives with the Baldwin locomotive works, .and an order for four of the finest passenger engines with the New York locomotive works. Tho company will in a few days place an order for one hundred fruit cars, but with what company has not yet been decided. One hundred platform plat-form cars have already been ordered. The Trouble at Monlpeller. A special from Montpclier, Idaho, announces that there was yesterday a general tie up of all except passenger trains on the Oregon Short Line, but that General Manager Resseguie had arrived, and that the matter had been adjusted. Chief Clerk Opdyke of Mr. Resse-guie's Resse-guie's oflice said this morning that while he had no direct information on the subject, he understood that it was a small affair. There was some misunderstanding misun-derstanding with the switchmen on account ac-count of the discharge of a couple of the men, and nil tho men went out. The matter was, however, amicably adjusted ad-justed and the men returned to work. A Good Day for Uarlleld, Yesterday was the best day for (Jar-field (Jar-field since the close of the season. Nearly three hundred people went out to the beach,' and fully one hundred of the,m took a dip in tno surf. They say that the water was pleasant. A I'nion I'aeilic ollicial, however, said this morning that they were running their trains at an expense now. A Great Northern Contract. It is stated that Shepard( Stein & Co., of St. Paul, have secured tho contract for the building of the Great Northern between Assiniboine, Mont., and Spokane Spo-kane Fnlls, Wash. There is, however, a scarcity of workmen in the Northwest, North-west, and the accounts give no intimation intima-tion as to when work will begin. Kio Cirandn Western HuslneM. The railroad business at this point, says the Grand Junction News, is almost al-most overwhelming the force employed. In the transfer and freight department there are about sevouly-five men at work. Still this large force is hardly competent to handle the freight. There has been as high as ninety carloads of freight awaiting transfer at one time within the past week. Hut, the freight department is not crowded any worse than the mechanical department. It employs nearly seventy men. And the pay roll for this department alone for the last month was a round $5000. To keep up with tho work, it is no infrequent infre-quent occurrence that tho entire force is required to work over time, and sometimes even on Sundays. How the company expects to keep up with Its mechanical work whenthegapisclosod between here and DeHeque is a conundrum, conun-drum, under its present facilities. They now run throe fires in the shops. There is possibly room for one more. Put the work that will be thrown into these shops would seem to double the present amount. A llmtrou Sunpenalon, The Grand Junction Star has received information that the Rio Grande Junction Junc-tion railroad has practically suspended all construction work. Seven hundred men have been discharged, and the alleged reason for this wholesale dismissal dis-missal of laborers, as given out by the company, is that they are 00,000 ties short, and that they aro also short of rails. The line is within twenty miles of Grand Junction, and, the company aver, so it is said, that it must stop there until tho necessary ties and rails aro received. It is the' opinion that if the road is completed to Grand Junction by Christmas, it will be all that can bo accomplished. ac-complished. This is a serious setback to the expectations of those who were counting ou an early completion of the standard gauge system, and, if the report re-port be hereafter confirmed, the delay will work injury to the future prospects of the new route. The Great Northern, A telegram from Seattle says; A mortgage on the lines of tho Great Northern railway, St. Paul, Minneapolis Minneapo-lis and Manitoba railway was tiled in the county auditor's oflico hero yesterday, yester-day, r Tho mortgage is made to the Central Trust company, under date of Julv I. Tho amount of the mortgago is $itll,000,000. 'The purpose of the loan is stated to lie' for the Pacific extension of the Great Northern from Assinaboiuo to Puget sound. Tho extension, it is said, will cost $'.'5, 000, 000. The Utah & Northern. Engineer C. 11. Cooke of the Uniou Pacific, returned from the railroad camp near Willard yesterday. He reports re-ports things as booming. About a milo of track, that is the third rail, is laid each day. Supplies anil men are abundaut, and he says the track, will soon be completed. comple-ted. The men are now at work between be-tween WHlai'd and Hot Springs. Kallroad Notes and Personal. S. W. Eecles of the Union Pacific has left on a ten days' Idaho trip. Mr. J.W. Hpbb has been appointed chief inspector of tho Utah demurrage association with headquarters at Salt Lake, vice E. T. Kitlenbotise, transferred. trans-ferred. This appointment to take effect Sept. 10. Tho Union Pacific will make special rates from territorial points to Ephraim, San Pete county, on the 14th and 15th inst. . to the Scandinavian-Danish reunion re-union and conference to be held at that place. V. i. Koguc, chief engineer of the Union Pacific, says that the company now has 1500 men at work on tho Puget sound extension, and will soon have between :!000' and 4000. The lino between be-tween Vancouver and Seattle is fully decided upon. . |