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Show INllLlfClllCLEo. Vice-PresiJent Chrk Says the Missouri Pacific is Not Gobbling tip A':l tha Union Pacifio Freight. ANOTHEB NEW LINE TO THE COAST Tirst Repoit of This Year's Wheat Crop A Swedish Railroad Inspector Coming Com-ing to Salt Lake City. Vico-President Clark of the Union Paciiic, now iu Xew York, says there is no truth in the report that freight was being diverted from the main lino of tho Union Pacific down over the Kansas Pae'lic branch of the Missouri Paciiic, thence via St. I.oitis and the Richmond Terminal system eastward to tho seaboard. He said that reports would show that the Missouri Paciiic, had turned over to the Union Paeilio hundreds of car loads more than it had received from the latter. Some of the railroad people in the west believe that Mr. Could is straining strain-ing every effort to pile up the tonnage of the Missouri l'acilic so that it will be entitled to a better proportional showing show-ing than its neighbors in the great southwestern Consolidation which is tinder way. Mr. Clark said that this supposition was groundless, and that the other roads would not make such a statement if they themselves were not trying to make as big a tonnage showing show-ing as possible. I'Attern or tha I'enn.. The minister of railroads is about to Introduce into the Prussian railroad hervico a new freight car running on eight w heels and constructed aftur the pattern of the Pennsylvania line.- It is to carry thirty tons; that is, about three times the freight of the average car now in use. The minister during the . week held a conference with some of ! the engineers who visited America last s,' - summer, and discussed with them the ; prospect of American railroading anil ' the reasons of its success. He said the kaiser was far from being atislied with t iu system in vogue iu Germany ami changes would have been eiiectnd shortly after the beginning .of bis reign if ho and his councilors could haveseco their way clear. I Whit. Mmii siul tli Northern Cnrillr. Assistant (ieneral Superintendent G. W. Dickinson of the Northern l'acilic is making a periodical trip over the western west-ern end ol the division. Ho t-aid his business trip to Itutto had nothing whatever to do with tho railway muddle with tin; Anaconda company. He reports re-ports that hisetid of the line-experienced no trouble with the snow this year. Asked relative to the "white mail," he said the project has been abandoned. 'J he company did expect to secure the mail carrying contract, and it was tho j n ten I ii mi to run a special mail train, but. it w as subsequently learned that the government contract with tho Union l'acilic w as of such a nature that it could uot be taken from them a this time. What Indications Show. The first reports of this year's wheat crop are being gathered by the railroads. rail-roads. The Atchison, Kock Island ami Hurlington report a larger acreage in wheat than ever before, and that tho wheat is in excellent condition. In Kansas the acreage is reported at 30 percent increase over last year, with lair prospects of fifty million bushels, against thirty-Aye million last year. S. T. K. Prime, tho crop expert," reports but little grain in store in the west, and that the season on the whole is backward. A Kftllroad Improvement. Superintendent H. M. Yerington of the Virginia & Truckee railroad has a rarty of surveyors at work in Gold 1111. They are "to straighten the track between the Crown Point bridge anil the tunnel at the upper end of the town. Hy takiug some of the curve out of the road at that point trains will be able to puil out of the Gold Hill depot without delay, ami without being obliged to back up and take tho bend with a rush. Thoy Wnut i Nuilairiy. The Port Angeles Southern railway promoters are after a subsidy. They want $:S."i0,0u0 to build a line from Port Angeles to Port Discovery, connecting at the latter point with the l'nion Pa-citic'g Pa-citic'g line, generally spoken of as the Port Townseud Southern. 'The company com-pany was recently incorporated aud Mie line is likely to be built! lllrrot LIuh to ill Cnitiit, With a capital of $2,01)0,000 there is a itrong possibility that the Mexico Cuec-navaca Cuec-navaca & Paeilii: company will construct con-struct a line from lienver to the coast. The road will run from Denver to the City of Mexico, throucrh Ciicrnanca and tap a tine harbor point on the coast. It promises to be the most direct line from Mexico to the oceau. Knilmsd UlpplM The American Ticket Brokers association assoc-iation will convene for four days in Kansas City, commencing May l'J. Thirty-five Central Pacific conductors conduc-tors are taking a vacation because they did not make honest returns to the company. The new mail service on the Manii branch of the Hio (irando Western will be begun next Monday and ere long extended ex-tended to Salina. W. H. Hamilton has been appointed to the vacancy iu the Los Angeles ollice of tho Northwestern, caused by the death of Henry Melendy. A. K. Djursen of Stockholm, who was sent to this country by tho Swedish government, is inspecting tho railroad system of tho I'nited States. Ho will soon be iu Salt Lake. F. D. Delaney his been made road-master road-master of the tilth Laramie and North Park and Paciiic district, E. Brown Seventh district, and S. M. Youmiin Eighth, Ninth aud Echo and Park City districts. There does not seem to be any foundation foun-dation for the. report that the Hock Islaud has bought the Denver. Lead ville & Gunnison and will open up the coal fields ou the other side. It is believed, be-lieved, however, that H. II. Metcalf will this year carry out his plan of building the Elk Mountain railroad. |