OCR Text |
Show Kallroad Notes. Hardly has a railroad news item about some important deal of, a big line been given to the public when it is promptly denied. The road bed of the Union Pacific between be-tween Salt Lake and Provo is being renovated. Work is in progress at tho latter point. The new rails will be sixty pound steel and about 75,000 ties will be required for the forty eight miles of track. The merchants of St. Louis are holding hold-ing meetings to devise a plan for overcoming over-coming the disadvantage of bridge tolls at that point and the railroads are informed in-formed that the bridge arbitrary must be included in the rates in order to allow St. Louis to compete with other towns. The Santa Fe has given formal notice of its appeal to arbitration from the decision of Chairman Finley and the association on the redemption of the mileage tickets held by the Rock Island, (ieneral Passenger Agent Sbattuo and Oscar G. Murray are the two arbitrators arbitra-tors and they will select a third. |