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Show pitted two of the moot elegant sleeping cars ever constructed by them. The caia coat $10,000 each. Ten carloada of machinery are on the way for the American Fork sugar factory. The walls of the building have reached the top of the second atury. The cold weather is a dsniper on the realty business. The dialers prophesy that a riai! ot the mercury will greatly affect the total of the transfers. During Jannary there were shipped from the Sandy smelter via the Kio Grando Western to Kinin City 045.510 pouuds of bullion; alto 35.1100 pounds Voting America ore, which went to Aurora, 111. Chairman Smith hni issued a call for a special meeting of the general managers man-agers and general pasr-enger agents of the line in the tranMiiiswuri association, associa-tion, to be held in Chicago on February 12th. At the meeting formal action will 1)H taken to reorganize the trausmis-sonri trausmis-sonri passenger association. J. K. Saehett of Saehett & Lawler, he amusement kings, is in the city today, to-day, personally superintending the progress of the inside work on the new Kden Musco. Mr. Sackett says they expending $7000 on the repairs aud decorations of the building. The place will be open on the 14th, and constantly thereafter. FOR RAILROAD RATES. The Board of Trade of Grand Junction Holds a Oonfirincs With Some Railroad Officials. EFF01TI TO SQUELOH SCALPERS. A Dsoiiion of Dsmnrrajrs Ba"nta Fe Chair Oars Injurits to D, 4 E Employes in 1890. A committee from the board of trade of Grand Junction, cunsitting of P. A. Rice, C. W. Steele, W. J. Quinn and B. F, Jay, have just conc.uded a consultation consulta-tion with A. S. Hughes, traffic manager and assistant general freight agent ot the Denver & Kio Grande, and General Manager Colbran and General Freight Agent Waterman of the Colorado Midland, Mid-land, for the purpose of securing more favorable rates for Grand Junction. The meeting was held at the request of the railroad people, as it was desirable desir-able to have a better understanding on thote matters. The local rates between Grand Junction Junc-tion and such points as Leadville, Apon, Glenwood Spring! and Ouray, aud also the through rates from the Missouri iivur aud hum Pacific const poiuu, to Grand Junction were fully cons.dered. When ail wa explained the comjiittee wa latitlird that the local ralt warn jn.t. but thoitf hi that Gruuu Junction ougut to tale as low a rale from tun ili.u.iri rivor and the Pacific font as toa.t Luke. At such a rale comd uot lie uide wiih.mt the consent con-sent of t lie roads m of Colorado, it was deeded to rf. r the matter lo tha Trail iiiUvniti ac awon, and it will prohab y L decided at te aext mating mat-ing ol i 'j a l b-jdy i'ua commiiien iefl pi rtoctiv autieiicd with the result of the cuui'arciiC'.-. W i klf Car. Dovrr K. :.ibik'aa: When the Santa Ftf's "N'.; .-, 11 y" train lelt the Union d' put ..utiduv morning, in addition lo lite iviilui' Ciucbca of which the thi:b km Ik i'ii toil. poind there was a par or chair car, which is the lateet ad-U.liwu ad-U.liwu In itt equipuiuut and which wat oiiutiiiHiiie I upon by a'l the railroad tuau who ware fortunate enough to see it. The car continued but twenty-four chuii a and i titled up with ,t tmoking room and toilwl room uud sieam heat-tug heat-tug pipta. lusirad of the aitie being in ike . en liter as will) other cart, the utile is between a double and siugle row of the chairs, which are ot olive-revn pliuli and to constructed thai tl.ey cau tie placed at any angle by the paieuger. The interior in-terior flulih of tha car is of hard wood, elegaully carved and grained, the windows win-dows much laner than thote in ordinary ordi-nary chaches, uud altogether more ease and eomfurt Is accorded the passenger than iu other coaches, except the sleepers. Thtte can are built by the barney Ji Smith tianufacturlng company com-pany of Da) toe, Ohio, and are tee first to be operated wait of tee Aluaouri river. No extra euurgi is ma Jo lo ride in these coaouei, which will hereafter be run on the "Nellie Bly" daily between be-tween thii city and Canyon city. The Santa Fe ii now having this style f chair cars built for the vestibule limited between here and Chicago. Why Th-jr Protest. The Monte Visla, Colo., board of trade objaets to the wholetale destruction destruc-tion of timber in that locality. They say that timber is being cut and destroyed de-stroyed upon the headwaters of Rock creek. Dry ereek and Raton creek, adjacent ad-jacent to Moete vista, upon government lands in Rio Grande county for the purpose pur-pose of making broad-gauge ties under contract with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad cempany, to the great injury of the Inhabitants of the San Luis valley, val-ley, not oely depriving them of the timber tim-ber neoesiary lor the improvement of their farms, but also materially affecting affect-ing the supply of water for irrigation by denuding the mouutains of timber, and therefore cauiiog thu snow to be malted early in the seaion, bringing down the water from the creeki and th is exbautiing the supply of water for early lrigatlen. Taa Thaataiid Askad For. George Rubenstein of Denver has brought eu it againit the Rio Grande Western Railway company for 810,000. He wai on his way from Salt Lake City to Denver by way of detandant's line on December 2S. 181). When the train - v. -. c.l.4:...'. - : i uniniu ijuniiri a Minimi auu Clear creek the car ho was in turned a summersault and landed him againtt the window. The fault, he alleged, was in rotten ties. Ai the result of the accident acci-dent the plaintiff Bays he has not been able to do a stroke of work. He foots up his loiHut at ;I000 which ho might have warned had ho not been disabled 41500 for expense of living, $5000 for for suffering and about $100 for dootor'i bills. fnTr to IadvtiN( Work on the proposed Denver, Apex Gulch and Lookout Mountaiu railroad will be begun ttiU month, and by the eud of spring the new line will be stretching itself up the mountain. The Deuver & liio Grande company is interested in the new road and may continue the line from Iiokout mountain moun-tain to Leadville. Thus tha public is led to believe the Rio Grande hat decided de-cided to construct its long-coulempiated "Short Line" over the divido to the utoua uity. Aftar tha Ap rm Chairman Finley of the Weitern Pai-lenger Pai-lenger association, now in session al Chicago, is closing in on tho scalpers. The following agreement will take effect ef-fect next Thursday: ' All lines have, agreed to refuse for pasiage all ticket that do not oear the signature of the pasaenger. This covenant coven-ant is general and the roads hope much good will result from it. Sparlal ta ttg tea. The Union Paoific will run a special to Ogden tomorow afternoon, leaving hare at 3 o'clock. The. odd fellows and their friendi will occupy tho train and attend the dedication of the odd fellows fel-lows hall, bamiuet and ball. Returning Return-ing the special will leave Ogdcu about 1 a. m. Injnrad and Klllrd. There were during last year RMS employes em-ployes of the Denver & Rio Grande injured in-jured and 28 killed. The company paid $13,331.84 on account of persoaal injuries. At present there are eight claims in litigation. Rallriad .Vote. Harrington. Donneliy & Newell sold a lot last evening in their subdivision. Price. 450. It is rumored that General Superintendent Superin-tendent W. II. Biiticrufl wilt go east on account of the snow blockades. The Pullman company have- just com- |