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Show atts on this road were also of timber with flat Iron bars. The tirst locomotive locomo-tive for use on a railroad was Invented by Richard l'revite in lHOt and tirst tried in Wales. George Stevenson built the first really itiucesssful locomotive in 1H14 and tested it upon the Killing-Wood Killing-Wood road in the north of Kngland. The first locomotive for actual service constructed in America was K. I. Miller's Mil-ler's "Best Friend," built for the South Carolina railroad company in l:i(; I'eter Cooper built a little experimental locomotive early in 13), before the "Host Friend" was completed. THE WHEELSAND RAILS Gould's Option on the Baltimore 4 Ohio ' Line ha Caused tbftPeniuylvauia Feopla to Opon Their Purse. WHAT GEN. SUPT. BANCROFT SAYS. Goneral News Among Local and Foreign Lines of Travnl Transfer of a Train Dispatcher. OD to Molilalia, T. II. Ryan, for three years cashier at tho Union Pacific freight depot, Denver, Den-ver, has recently accepted a responsible respon-sible position at Hutte. W. L. Camp has been appointed to his vacancy, (J. 1'. Dawlin to Mr. Camp's former position posi-tion and E, II. Null' to Mr. Dawlin. Mr. Camp's associates presented him with a handsome watch. lleilroeU Notes. It in rumored at Atchison that the Grand Island and the Kansas Central lines will he added to the Missouri Pacific, instead of being continued as part of the Union l'acilie system. Tho cattle which Andrew Haas of Spanish Fork, shipped east via the U. P. arrived in Omaha in excellent condition. "Jay Gould's action in securing an option on tho Paltiinore As Ohio railroad," rail-road," said a railroad man yesterday ho has special acquaintance with the iffairs of the Kiclmmud & Terminal lystem, "has had its effect. The Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania has decided to giro ,ne Rieh-inond Rieh-inond Terminal people steam heat and typewriter and ladies' maids, if they like, on tho trains of the Piedmont Air line iu fact, everything that tho Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania advertises for its Chicago limited, lim-ited, and the Richmond & Danville will get two through trains daily out of New York, to bo made up of Richmond it Danville cars. "The other demand is for several fast freight trains, that will place the Pied- Train Dispatcher T. 13. Wilson of tho U. P. nt Ogden, has been transferred to Pocatollo. Ilia successor is L. V. Muck. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe people claim to have carried 14 percent of the business between Kansas City and Chicago last year. The Rio Grande Western ofliecs in Salt Lake will be moved into the new board of trade building on West Second South street in a short time. J. N. Patrick, for a long time passenger passen-ger conductor for tho Union l'acilie, on the Wyoming, is running a train on the Rocky Mountain division of the Northern North-ern l'acilie. Joseph Gasberg, a Pl-yrar-old boy of ltvigham City, had both his feet cut olf by failing under a car Saturday. Physicians amputated both legs below iiioiit Air line on tho same footing with tho Atlantic Coast luio. Tho passenger passen-ger for Atlanta via the Pennsylvania railroad now has to change ears at Washington, unless he is in a sleeping car. The Richmond & Danville people fire tired of two through sleepers a day. Hereafter they will get two solid vestibule vesti-bule trains, and it will be practically the same as if the Richmond A: Danville people owned an entrance into New York." . To ! AoollihHd. Tho testing department of the Union Pacific railway system, at Omaha, which was organized four years ago by C. II. McKibheu, formerly purchasing agent of the system, will be abolished on March 1st. The department was supplied with a complete set of chomi- cal apparatus, and a number cf machines for testing metals. Tho soaps, oils, paints and various supplies were all tested. The same was true of boiler Iron, carspiings, engine and car axles, Tin, antimony and lead were also subjected sub-jected to a chemical test to delermino their purity. Apropos of tho latter case, a good story is told in the Omaha I'.ce of a recent re-cent test of metals. The purchasing agent brought a car load of lead from the Omaha oc Grant smelter and a car load of metal iu bars was delivered at the shop. A bar was taken at random from the car by the experts in the test j department and subjected to a severe tho knees and tho boy may live. Illness has compelled W. A. Pissell, general freight agent of the Atlantic & Pacific division of the Santa Fe, to go to California for a time. He is accompanied accom-panied by-Superintendent A. P. Tanner. Tho mission of James J. Hill abroad is said to be to raise $in,()0l),0(K) to extend ex-tend his road across the Cascade mountains moun-tains to Puget Sound, and ISostou papers pa-pers state that the work is to soon be resumed on the Union Pacific branch from Portland to Taconia. William Coughlan has been appointed superintendent of tho Missouri Pacific, to succeed K. K. Colvin, resigned. Mr. Coughlan has been division roadmasler of tho road between Kansas City and Auburn for three years. Hefore that he was a condnctoi on the Rock Isl.nd. The TransMissonri passenger agree- ment is modeled after the western passenger pas-senger agreement, but Is thought to be far stronger. The tirsf. Monday in March an adjourned meeting will be held in Kansas City, when all lines in TransMissonri territory are expected to sign it. The New York owners of the Pacific Short line have sold that property to the A.N. (iarrettson syndicate which secured an option on it two weeks ago. the line is to be built through to Ogden under business contracts with the Rock Island and tho Chicago, Milwaukee it rhemical test to see if tho smelter peo-pie peo-pie were trying to foist adulterated lead on the railroad. The test proved satisfactory, satis-factory, however, and the metal was pronounced to be lead, 08 per cent fine. In a day or two the smelter people peo-ple missed a car load of silver bullion bul-lion and proceeded at once to track it lip. They found tho bullion in the foundry at tho shops being made up Into castings, labeled 'W per cent load.' Tho workman said ho "thought it took lots of heat to melt the stuff." And this is why the testing department depart-ment will be abolished. -The experts were too scientific. What IU Ritya. St, Paul, which companies are at war with the Union l'acilie. Tho testimony given before the interstate inter-state commerce commission, says one of their number, shows that i2",(K)O,000 annually is thrown away by the combined com-bined roads of this company in the various va-rious methods of fighting one another to get business, and a large per cent of this amount is Wasted in paying commissions. com-missions. A. W. McMasters, formerly trainmaster train-master on the Idaho division of the Union Pacific at Poeatello, is now assistant chief dispatcher at Sprague, Wash., for tho Northern Pacific W. K. Morden, an old time dispatcher, formerly on the Wyoming division of tho Union Pacific, occupies a similar position at Portland, Oregon, for the same company. General Superintendent V. II. Ban-, Ban-, t croft of the Union Pacific fell into the jT ( nands of a reporter while iu Den-erthe ) other day and among other things is ' quoted as saying: "Salt Lake is highly incensed at the Union Pacific, is it not?" "Well, there was some feeling, but it is dying out. A little was caused by my action in moving my headquarters from Salt Lake to Ogden. Put that could not be avoided. Ogden is the natural place for my office. However, none of the other offices, nhops, etc., will lie moved from Salt Lake. Personally, I should have preferred to stay there. I like the city and believe the surrounding surround-ing region is the coming country. However, How-ever, could not yield to personal motives. mo-tives. I bel ieve there is some hard feeling against tho Itio Grande Western there." Demurrage Aseooletloo. The Utah Demurrage association of bait Lake city handled the following cars for the week ending Friday, February Feb-ruary 20: Coal 178, lumber 24, coke U0, ore 128, limestone 40, groceries 11, meat 5, hay and grain 10, brick 2, hardware hard-ware 2, water and gas fixtures 3, household house-hold goods 6, wagon 2, flour and feed 0; machinery 7, fruits and vegetables 6, paper 1, tallow and grease 0, sawdust saw-dust 1, junk 2, iron 1, furnitures, cement ce-ment 1, wines and liquors 1 .oil 2, implements im-plements 1, steel railroad material 6, bank fixtures 2, stono 2, wooden ware 1, slag 2, charcoal 2, wood 2. Total, 603 carloads as against 557 of the previous prev-ious week. The decrease was on account ac-count of 50 carloads of ore shipped from Eureka.which was included iu the week ending February 14. To Saperaede Claim Depertmenes. The president of a number of the leading railway systems have under (serious consideration tho making of a radical departuro ia a legal way. In brief, the plan is to turn oTer every claim or suit for damages against every road to a legal association organized for the purpose of settling such claims on their merits, fighting theia in the courts to the last. It is proposed thai this association shall entirely supersede the claim and legal departments of the roads which are members of the new organization. It is believed that many hundred thousand dollars can be saved to the roads annually through such a method of looking after the litigation of the roads interested. Quite e Find. An employe of the Pullman company while examining a sleeping car the other day which had been taken into the shops at Pullman for repairs, found under a cushion two packages which, upon being opened, were found to contain con-tain $5000 in brand new national bank notes and a like sum in government bonds. How the packages came there is unknown, as no report of the loss has been received by the company and it is believed that they were placed there by some one who had come into criminal possession of them. They were turned over to General Manager Sessions. The First Kail Route. The iirst railroad built in the United itatea was three miles in length, en-tending en-tending from the granite quarries at Quincy. Mass., to the Neponset river. It was commenced iu and linished in 1827. Tho gauge was five feet; the rails were pine, a foot thick, covered with hard oak, which was in turn strapped with iron. In January, 1827, a short coal road was completed from the mines to Mauch Chunk, Pa. The |