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Show WOULD COT $5,000,000. Jay Uould Talks About Ihe Hook Island HaUding- a Bridge. Jay Gould says that a bridge and terminals of their own at Omana would cost the Milwaukee and Rock Island roads at least $."),000,000; that the Union Pacific estimates its facilities of this nature at nearer $10,000,000 than $3,-000,000. $3,-000,000. Were the so-called leases to be recognized as binding and their provisions pro-visions carried out, and the special privileges of tho Union Pacilio bridge and terminals at Omaha were to bo granted to the Milwaukee and the Rock Island for a consideration so dispro-portioued dispro-portioued to their value, and finally should the Union Pacific in consequence conse-quence be paralleled for its entire length by a rival road, ho would like to know what tho government's 25 per ceut of the earnings of the road would amount to. Still the general impression seems to be that Gould will gain his point in keeping the Rock Island aud the St. Paul out of Omaha. If he does it not at all certain that those companies will carry out their original project of building build-ing an independent bridge across the Missouri river. The time has gone by when they could afford to do so, and besides, it would take two years to complete such a bridge. None of the western roads are iu a position to build costly bridges this year, and certainly the Rock Island and the St. Paul are not in a position to do so. Neither the Rock Island nor the St. Paul will enter into any agreement with the Union Pacific as matters now stand. The presidents of both roads have intimated in-timated as much, and whatever may happen in the meantime it is expected that there will be a stormy time at the New York conferenoo. Railroad Notes. The Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City road has abolished many of its western outside agencies, as reported from the east. An official of the road says that tho company had decided to abolish its agencies at Cincinnati, Detroit, ISuU'iilo, Denver and Omaha. On January 1st passenger rates on nine Michigan roads were reduced to conform to the recent decision of tho supreme court of that state, which upholds up-holds the constitutionality of the two-cents-a-mile-rate law. The Lake Shore and Michigan Central will be obliged to conform to the law for self protection. protec-tion. Within the next thirty days most of the passenger associations will act on tho question of abolishing the sale of unlimited tickets. When this is done, if a person wishes to stop at points between be-tween termini he will purchase a local ticket. The ticket scalpers fear this action ac-tion more than any other which has been proposed by the general passenger passen-ger agents. Traveling Passenger Agent C. E. Bray of the Northern Pacific at San Francisco has been appointed to a similar sim-ilar position, with headquarters at Boston, Bos-ton, in place of A. S. Quin, resigned. J. J. Ferry, recently with the Great Northern at Cincinnati, has been appointed ap-pointed traveling passenger agent of the Northern Pacific for Ohio, with headquarters at Cincinnati, iu place of S. II. Mills, rosigned. Teese appointments appoint-ments took effect January 1st. The projectors of the Great Western Locomotive works of Chicago, incorporated incor-porated at Springfield, with a capital of $1,000,000, say that they propose to begin the erection of works in the spring. They propose to rival tho Grant Locomotive works of Paterson, N. J., now preparing to remove to Chicago. The Great Western works are to cover nino acres of ground and employ 2000 men. It will absorb the old Chicago Railway Supply company. -- - Sunday dinnor at thu Saddle Rock. Toys for millions at Golden Rule Uaaar. Once a customer, always a customer Traveling, toilet and manicure sets Bast-Teruy Mercantile Co. 143 Main st l ee |