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Show tiietiuoi) train; Tho St, Louis Prjoctors of the Line Prom Los Armies Inquire About S. Q. W. and tJ. P. Traffic CHANCES ON VARI0U3 LINES. i Meeting of Station Apats Delegates A Steady Wstkins Notes and Personals of Many Koute, The St. Louis railroad men and bankers bank-ers who were recently in Salt I.ake have, .is was forslnidowed, a scheme on top. Their idea is to build from Los Angi itis, Cal., to a point in Utah. Tho proj.-. tors had a conference with lien-eral lien-eral Manager Dodge in Denver the other day about what kinil of tratlitf agreciieiit could be made if the proposed pro-posed line would tap tho it. (i. W. in this territory. The party went to Omaha to chat w ith the Union l'aeitic olli. i.ils about the same matter. They will favor the road that idlers the best inducements. The proposed line will pass through a rich fruit and agricultural agricul-tural country. IU Will lloid His Own, The impression gains credence that D. ,1. Mackey is figuring to get out of railroading, yet he is uot anxious enough to be relieved to make any sac-rilice; sac-rilice; in fact, in no deal in which he h.n been connected has ho failed to make a handsome profit on his opera t;ons. In bis Cincinnati. Wabash A: Michigan deal be is said to have made a clear prolit of ffiiOtl.OOO. Joseph Col-lett Col-lett nf "JVrre Haute, however, was with him in the deal, and he had to divide with him. It is understood Mr. Mackey, in the Chicago & Kastern Illinois Ill-inois deal, is reported to have made a handsome sum without much trouble and outlay, and if he unloads any of his Kvaosville lines, says one of his friends, on the Kig Four or Huntington syndicates, he will not do so until lie is assured that tie has secured all the money there is in the properties as now bandied, and he wiil retire as one of Indiana's wealthiest men. M.itinif oiilriait. Tho visiting K. & M. officials left Salt Lake last ev eniog for Kntte. The party is composed of President C. K. Perkins of the ('. K. - (.. (ielieral (.'. (J. Paine, Mr. If. L. Higginson. Dr. (i. W. West; Mr. Walter Jarvis of Kostou, Col. H. 11. Scott and Mr. C. I'. Squires of Kur-lington, Kur-lington, General Freight Ageut Howard Llhott of St. Louis. They were shown around the city. President Perkins as-nrtcd that in his mind Salt Lake is lo he the western metropolis between Chicago and San Francisco. The party was accompanied to Ogden by Superintendent Superin-tendent F: L. Corwin of the Union Pacific Pa-cific and General Agent Walker of tho Burlington. His l(rt is O, K. "It is the duty of every railroad olli-cial olli-cial connected with a railroad, w hen an accident occurs, to use every means within bis power to give as correct an account as possible of the loss of life, property, cause of accident and all details de-tails within his knowledge te the representatives repre-sentatives of the press, " said a prominent promi-nent railroad man in this city yesterday. yester-day. "Then! is no use lying about it. The truth will come out sooner or later and tho best way is to give the facts at the beginning, and then there will be no chance lor a misunderstanding later on." A 8t.rtT Win Watklni. J. L. Watkins has been ticket agent of the Burlington at Meudota, III., for thirty years, the greater portion of which time he has spent in his nllice, acting as night agent as well as day agent. It is asserted that in all this time ho has never ridden on the cars, and has never stepped on board a train until last week, when he was subpo'-naed subpo'-naed as a witness in a lawsuit at W'uea-ton, W'uea-ton, 111., and w as obliged to go. Ban Franrim-o to Ilia Kast. i A great many of the sight seers from tho coast who visit Salt Lake these days travel on special fast bound excursion excur-sion tickets The lines represented in this enterprise of fnrnifhing tickets for tho Pullman tourist cars are C.H.I. .V P., S.P. and D. Ar It. i. The scenery from Salt Lake to Denver is the most attractive attrac-tive on the entire journey, Mavtlnjr of fttatton Agents. The delegates of tho national association associa-tion of station nireuts will meet in Denver Den-ver May 20th. There will probably be 100 delegates at the session. The association asso-ciation has over 50110 members. The codveution will last three days. Salt Lake agents may attend. Kailrnait Kipploa. Boise and Butte w ill not be connected connec-ted by rail this year. The project has been shelved. William W. Wilson, formerly master mechanic of the Chicago ifc Alton, is dangerously ill of nervous prostration. It is thought that within a year Baltimore Balti-more it Ohio trains will be running into Fort Madison, la. The line now terminates at Beardstown, III. Unless a great change occurs in the money market which w ill enable the Burlington to construct westward tho management will not build in Montana this year. Chief Clerk H. H. Watson of the general gen-eral manager's office of tho Montana Union, at Kulte, has tendered bis resignation, res-ignation, to take effect Friday. His successor will be C. (J. floss, private secretary of General Manager Burns. |