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Show is said, will lie increased. Tho company com-pany ha begun condemnation proceedings proceed-ings against people along the lino who have refused to accept tho minis offered for their property. Itallwuy Note ami Personal. II. O. Wilson of the Vnion Pacific freight department led tin morning (or Denver. An order for two locomotives for tho government railroad at Cape Colony. Africa, has been placed ith the Maid win works. Charles Curloss of Green Uiver ha been appointed trainmaster of the m-v-entli ana eighth district of tho I'nion I'acilio, tho Wyoming division. .1. M. Creamer, for forty yenr a conductor con-ductor on the Krie road and now superintendent super-intendent at Kansas City, is visiting in this city with hi son, Conductor Creamer of the Klo Grande Western. George (, l'ickett has been appointed generalforpman of the mollvo power of the Denver and KioGrando Southern and assumes tho duties of hit office today, with headquarters nt Kidgway. THE RAILROAD KURD. The Union Picifio Road Eetween f-alt Lake and Milfotd ii in Bad Sjape. HAVE EETAI3JED TEEIE MASCOT. General Manager Oollbran of the Colorado Midland Still at tho Old Stand Brief Flashes. The Union Pacific 1ms started in on a policy of retrenchment. The forces In every department are being cut down to the lowest limit, and it is even hinted that the resident engineers department in this city is to be entirely abolished. There is a reason for this. In tho past six weeks the Union Pacific has lost over $','00,009 in engines and cars which have been smashed up in wrecks. Most of these wrocks have beon on the Wyoming, Idaho and Utah divisions. divis-ions. Indeed it is olaimod that the resignation re-signation of Bob Nilliard as assistant superintendent of the Wyoming divis-sion divis-sion was caused by tho number of wrecks w hich have recently occurred on his division. wouldn't know Skitville if they were to see it, appears singularly thin in "the face of the fact that this morning we personally planted a large painted stake beside the track which could be readily seen by the engineer for the distance of half a mile. This evening a nail will be driven into said stake and Met line's stable lantern hung thereon. If the night express also ignores the signal it will be time for the American people to fully understand tho malice of this in-faiuorg in-faiuorg blow leveled at the prosperity of a growing metropolis by a bloated and cowardly monopoly." The Villa Urove llranch, Mr. Colo Lydon, superintendent of the Fifth division of the Denver & Rio Grande railway, with headquarters at Alamosa, was in Denver yesterday. In speaking of the Villa (irovo branch Mr. Lydon said that they have run a little short of rails, but more were forthcoming, forthcom-ing, and the track would bo completed in nbout seventeen days. When asked about tho condition of the rallcy, Mr. Lydon said it is in a most prosperous condition and twice the amouut of produce has been raised this year of anv previous one. The potato crop is full, he says, nmi the farmers have more wheat than they know what to do with. The division on which Mr. Lydon operates includes a portion of the' I'te reservation, and ho says the Indians are quite desirous of a removal; also that the most of them are oil' the reservation now. Will llrtnln the Maioot. A Colorado Springs correspondent says: (Jeneral Manager Colbran of the Colorado Midland, accompanied by Private Secretary Fagiu, returned yes-teid:iy yes-teid:iy morning from Chicago. Mr. Collbran went to Chicago at the request of President Manvel of tho Santa Fe for a consultation relative to the management of tho Midland road under its recent purchase by tho Santa Fe. The road will bo managed ns a division divi-sion of the Santa Fe, and Mr. Collbran will be retained as as general manager, with the present staff of managing officers. of-ficers. The general officers will be retained for tho present, as will their clerks. The city ticket office will bo consolidated consolidat-ed with the Santa Fo olilco. Uullillng- Into Tscoma. It is stated that the Union Paeilio will have trains running into Tacoimi within with-in thirteen mouths..! uAboo.t 2500 men are engaged upon tho road between Portland and Taconm, and tho force, It The Utah division has its share of tho accidents. Almost every day brings a report of a breakdown of some description. descrip-tion. This is scarcely to be wondered nt. The rails betwoeu this city and Milford are old and worn out; the road bed is in bad condition; the engines are delapidated affairs, and a Union Paeilio employe said this morning that he did not believe that they had competent engineers. Colonel Uorige Denies It, General Manager Dodge of tho Rio Grande Western, was in the city yesterday. yester-day. He denies emphatically that the Atchison has an option on the road, and says that no such proposition was ever entertained. At the same time comes tho following dispatch from Chicago: A Santa Fe omrtal virtually admlttad today that his company had, In connection with Its purchnse of the Colorado Midland, secured control con-trol of the Kio Urnnde Westein and would operate op-erate the two as one line from uoli rado Sprtnus to OgJen. "In what shape does this deal leave the Denver & Klo Grande" was asked of a railroad rail-road man Just hack from the mountum. 'I'D a ftump," wa his pert reply. -It must either build to Salt Lake or sell out. I umler-utniiil umler-utniiil before leavinu Deuvor that President Moffat had been heard to say he would par- ' allel the Klo CJrnnrte Western with a road of his own, all the way from (Jr.ind Junction to Suit Lake and Otfdeu. but there is another scheme on foot in wliU h I think Ihe Kock 1-landand 1-landand Rio Grande are Interested jointly. Some years aco the Union Pncitle surveyed a direct line to Salt L ike from Denver, which Is much shorter slid less complicated with he ivy (rrades than anv other known route lft.ee two companies c n net that, survey they wdl put it to jjood me hy constructing an air line road from Denver to Bait Lake." A Railroad Ponh Haht C. H. Morehouse, division freight and passenger agent of the Santa Fe, has his headquarters at El Paso, Texas. That part of the Santa Fe extending to El Paso is what , is known as the Kio Grande and El Paso railway, which is eighteen miles in length. Under the laws of Texas every road operating in that state must have the headquarters of the general offices inside the state. In order to conform to this law, Mr. Morehouse carries tho title of vice-president, vice-president, director, general manager, stockholder, and general freight and passenger agent. Ho seldom appends the complete list to his signature when communicating with his superiors in tho north, however, unless he, gets real mad. Just what the vice-president or general manager of the Kio (irande says when be goes for the general passenger pas-senger agent or' general freight agent for cutting rates, or when he semis out a tracer, is a secret that Mr. Morehouse keeps locked within his own breast. The secretary, treasurer and auditor of the road is also a stockholder and director, and he and Mr. Morehouse meet regularly to hold the directors' and stockholders' meetings. President Manvel hasn't the time to go to El Paso, so the vice-president presides with the majority of the proxies in his pocket. The World's Kllrood. The Archiv fur Eisenbahweisen, a publication frequently quoted as an authority on railroad matters, has published pub-lished its annual summary of the world's railroad mileage, bringing the figures down to the beginning of 1W. The general results, as compared with those of four years ago, are as follows: Dee. 31, Dec. 31, p.K4. Miles. Miles ;;;:::;:::::::::::;! K v 4(H) Auto i Tctals 'a-ii0 The total number of locomotives in Europe is estimated nt not quite 01,000, and in other parts of tho world not quite 43,000. England has 80 loeomo-niotives loeomo-niotives for every 100 miles of road, and Belgium just ahout the same number, Germany 53, France 47, Russia 40. Austria Aus-tria 32 Italv 30, India25and the tinted States 111. The total railroad capital of the world is estimated at 121.440.000,000 marks (about 30,0OO,0O0.0CO); 115.000 -000 0W of this is in Europe, whose railways rail-ways are capitalized at 115.0o0 per mile- $15,000,000,000 in the other parts of the world, where the average capitalization capit-alization is somewhat over ?GO,000 per mile. , An Ignored Community. The editor of a newspaper at an alleged al-leged new town on the line of the Texas & Pacific railroad gives vent to the suppressed anguish of a harrowed up soul as follows; "This is the last time we shall allude to the persistent omission to a'.op at this town of the trains of the Texas & Pacific. 1 he old excus of the conductor that tbey |