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Show IN liATLYAYCUlCLliS. How a Number of Salt Lake Business Houses Thoughtlessly Put Off the Bailroad Agents. THE ATCHISON'S BIO ABMY. i Another Excursion Party Here Departure Depar-ture of the Golden Gate Tourists Notes and Personals. The agents of the various lines represented rep-resented in Salt Lake City are not often found at their desks at all hours these days. They are generally out among the business men of the "city hustling for freight, knowing that competition is so keen and get loft will be the result. re-sult. There are some firms in Salt Lake," said a railroad man, "that have the habit of promising a car or more to almost every man who comes along. This is a bad habit, and tho freight solicitors so-licitors would rather be told at onee that the car has been given to a certain lino. Then a great deal of trouble and unnecessary confusion would be avoided avoid-ed and better feeling exist all around. The last order in generally secures the car, and tho balance of the agents who were promised the same thing are left to reflection and disappointment. "Some years since Denver merehapts had the same habit of promising freight to all the agents who applied, merely telling this to get rid of them. Matters are different now, and it is far more satisfactory to do business with them. The routing trade in Salt Lake is about as lino as it cau possibly be anywhere. Here an agent is hardly sure of a car unless he rides out of the city on it to the cud of his line," The Atchison System. This system has IMIfJ miles of , road and is formed by the consolidation or lease of US companies. The Atchison system represents a capitalization of n'e.trlv $500,000,000. It numbers more than 35,000 people in its army of employees. em-ployees. Annually it pays out over $25,-utin'ooo $25,-utin'ooo in wages.' Its annual revenue is more than 10.000.000. In its daily work it uses over 1,8W locomotives and nearly 35,000 cars. The sun is not yet set in'the west before forces are com-uienciuz com-uienciuz work in the east. The . ilTV r. s. nr. The county court has granted a franchise fran-chise to the Salt Lake , Hailey & Puget Sound line. It Is from the west boundary bound-ary of Salt Lake City and thence west on condition that the company shall construct a county road of gravel, one rod wide and six inches deep on the south side of their right of way the entire distance. - s |