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Show U 6700 foot. The grades are unavoidably unavoid-ably heavy. Btuween Pudgeway and Tellurido the maximum is SU feet per mile; betwoon Ilium and Rieo 170 feet, ami between Kico and Durango, 11M feet per mile. Katlroad Illpplai, The Colorado Passenger association will have 75,000 pamphlets on Colorado and its resorts Usued for distribution. The chief object of the Burlington's intended extended extension into Montana Mon-tana is said to be to tap the coko fields. Siuoe H. S. Josselyn resigned the position po-sition of car accountant of the D. & R. C, Chief dork Grimshaw is filling the vacancy. Secretary Stebbins of the trans-Missouri association is searchiner among the ticket ollices and scalpers of Denver ior the fellows who are violating the rules. There were fifty -one warrantee de6ds recorded at Provo yesterday. The deeds are from parties living along the route of the Tintio Range Railway company, com-pany, and were made in favor of said company. S MOVING TRAINS. The Opening of the New Grand Trunk Tunnel Under the Saint Clair Eivei on September 19. TEE BIO GKADDE SOUTHERN, A Monster Locomotive Shortage of Can -D. & E. G. Excursion Kataa Notes of Various Lines. On Saturday, Sept. 19, Sarnia, Ont., aio Port Huron, iMioh., will be given over to brilliant festivities in honor of tbcopaningof tht new Crand Trunk tunnell under th St. Clair river. A banquet will be "erved in the tunnell, the table being set across the boundary lino. President Harrison, Sir Henry Tyler, president of the Grand Trunk, and many high American a&d Canadian civic aad railway officials will attend the exercises. During the entertainment entertain-ment the famous Thirteenth Battalion band, of Hamilton, will reuder tho music. "God Save the Queen" will be played on the Canadian sido and the "Star Spangled Banner" will be given ou the American side. The St. Clair tunnel has been constructed con-structed under tho river of that name, at the foot of Lake Huron, for the pur-. pur-. pose of superseding the ferryboats which have heretofore conveyed the trains of the grand trunk route across that river. It will afford immense id-vantages id-vantages to passengers and for freight traffic in avoiding the nconveniances of a ferry, in saving two hours of tim and in shortening the distance by about six miles. Tho actual tunnel itself under the river is 00:20 feet long. It is lined throughout with solid cast-iron cast-iron plates, bolted together in segments each segment being five feet long, eighteen inches wide and two inches thick, with llangns five inches deep; tho whole lining weighing ; 28,000 tons. The holts and nuts for connecting the segments together weigh ' 2,000,000 pounds. The permanent "way through tho tunnel is laid with ituel rails weighing 100 pounds to the lineal yard. The interior diameter of the tunnel is twenty feet and ample means have been provided for thorough ventilation aud fur lighting it throughout through-out when rat) uired hv the electric light. The road is practically level under the fiver, with approaches at each end ou gradients nf 1 to 50. The total length nf the tunnel and approaches is 11,653 feet. At the ends of tho approaches are junctions with tho Grand Trunk railway on the Canadian aide and the Chicago ft Grand Trunk railroad on the American side of the river. The cost ui the tunnel proper was jl, 400,000. The 11. & K. O. Eieoralan Katta. Fof Labor day at Pueblo agents between be-tween Saliiliv aud Swallows inclusive, (except Florence and Coal Creek) may sell at oris fare for the round trip, to Pueblo and return. Selling day September Sep-tember 7th, good to return September Septem-ber 8th. On next Wednesday "King Cole" at the, mineral palaeo at Pueblo will be unveiled. The railroad company has authorized its agents to sell tickets for one regular fare for the round trip , -within the state. On account of the Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior at Omaha, October Oc-tober 20th to 22d, the D. & K. O. will sell at a rate of oue and one-third fare on the certificate plan from all points in Colorado to Omaha. Geo. W.Hall, Oman, will sign certificates. Soiling (lavs from Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Trinidad, will be October 18th, agents wast of Pueblo will be governed accordingly. Tickets to bo limited to continuous passage. A Motiatar Lacon ntlv. The Pennsylvania has just begun the building of a monster locomotive at its shops in Altoona, Pa. An Altoona paper says it will be about three times as long as the average locomotive, will have two sets of driving wheels, one set being in the front, aud one set of ponv wheels being uuder the pilot. The wheels will be uuder trucks, so that the locomotive can go around curves. Two firemen will be necessary to supply the coal. The locomotive, it is alleged, will be powerful enough to haul a train of freight cars a mile in length. tinrtag-d of Cart. Just as predicted some time ago, every car works in the country is full of orders and the roads are so short of of cars with which to handle the grain that the movement will be delayed, and so fur from rinding it nacessary to hold back grain, the railroads themselves will be forced to postpone shipments. Ihm Rio flruuda Soattiara. The construction of the Kio Grande Southern will be completed in the fall. The line follows the western slopes of the San Juan mountains. As it crosses til tiividt from Kiilgewny the altitude |