Show CHANGES AT SWAN1AKE Oregon Short Lines Sixth District Work RECTIFY AND BALLAST ROAD Contract lo Nov Nearing Completion I and Forms an Intercsting Piece of i Work Sags Filled and Hills Cut I to Secure a Level Grade New i Gravel for Ballast at Marsh Valley I is Being UsedAn Agent Suicides More Excursion Rates to the EastRailroad Notes A trip over the Oregon Short Line to McCarn mow reveals a tremendous amount of work being dono on the railway All the way from Ogden the line has been improved but just at I present the energy of the force cm ployed Is centered Swan Lake where a very Important improvement Is nearIng I near-Ing completion < Swan Lako is I in Idaho eightyfive miles north of Ogden In the first place the old line near this point was quite a troublesome stretch for the I operation trains as there were two l lengthy sags and a hill1 between them making a total of four different grades two upgrades in each direction To rectify tlus the sags have been lllled in with now grade and a out made in the hill with the result that a level track is secured in place of the old upanddown line One of the grades is 1 quite long and is still being built the track being gradually raised Whero the line was lowered at several long stretches a shoofly track vas temporarily tem-porarily used while the earth was beIng be-ing removed for the new track In this way no delays were occasioned although al-though the work has been in progress all summer Ai soon as Iho line was rcctlJlcd the ballasting was done Many miles of this has been completed on OfJ over the ballasted track at fifty miles an hour the movement of the train and noises are reduced toa minimum A train of Rodger ballnst cars Is In constant con-stant use and tho ballast Is a solid rock gravel which Is I taken from Ute new beds at Marsh valley this side of Arimo The new bed will be used 1 for n11 tributary track ballasting but the company has four other deposits of gravel one in Salt Lake one near San I laquin one In Montana and one on the ast end > ballast will never have to be hauledan y great distance as each division supplied On the sixth district the work Is corn pleled from Ogdcn to Hot Springs and Is being rapidly placed to McCammon The standard watertanks standpipes stand-pipes signalposts and whitewashed stone bases which beautlfuy the Salt I LakeOgden lino are also being placed iind the station buildings are either new or newly painted In the high school colors dark red and black and are all of one standard By the time winter win-ter sots in the whole of the Utah division di-vision from Sale Lake to McCammon will ho in prime condition and as regards re-gards track roadway and permanent L structures it will be one of the best lines In the West Retaining walls have been built In Bear River canyon but the work of filling in the trestles Ii has not been commenced yet but this Li will be one of tho improvements of the near future 1 MORE EASTERN EXCURSIONS Utah Receives the Benefit of Low Rates from Colorado Denver Colo Aug 5 Colorado and Utah lines have agreed to extend the castbound excursions for August and September to Utah thus giving Utah the same privileges as Colorado The I excursions will be run August 10th and September 7th and 21st This it Is stated Is the first time that 5 1 rates made specially for Colorado have l been extended to Include Utah the 1 rales heretofore having only applied to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo z By extending the rates to Utah the Rio Grande Western enters the field and the Union Pacific Is put on a more nearly even footing with its Colorado competitors com-petitors The extension the rates la said to I have been In response to a demand by Utah citizens that they too be allowed to go East at educed rates Agent Commits Suicide Colorado Springs Aug 5 During a Is fit of temporary Insanity attributed to I illhealth H Wildman who has been 5 for twelve years depot local freight c agent for the Denver Rio Oiandc shot himself through the head at 730 this morning lie died an hour Inter He was to have left at 10 oclock for a vacation trip to California Deceased was born and raised in Sandusky 0 and leaves a widow and two children His accounts and all business matters 5 are reported by the company to be absolutely ab-solutely correct i Canadian Pacific Strike Winnipeg Man Aug GThe strike situation on the Canadian Pacific Is I practically unchanged The move 5 meat has not yet affected the com panys traffic and nil trains arc running 1 run-ning on time but there seems to bo a i gi prospect of the strike extending tooth to-oth i branches of the service Railroad Notes S MHC Parsons has gone East COTljfDodgc and Mr Kramer went to Park City yesterday k All the noon trains Into Ogden yesterday t yester-day ran in two sections q No 4 on the Western came down from Ogden last night in fortyeight 1 minutes 1 0 Ira Tullle and Orvin Morris of the Short Line went to Omaha yesterday morning + J G Mctcalf Jr son of the general manager of the Denver Rio Grande has been here several days 0 1 Tho changing of knuckles in passen r I gorcar couplers at Ogden Is causing considerable trouble and delay An excursion to the Pacific coast may follow tho annual convention of the National LiveStock association t next winter in Salt Lake City VicePresident and General Manager I John N Abbott of the Consolidated + Railway Lighting and Equipment company 4 com-pany sends The Tribune an interesting Illustrated book on the system of car I lighting by electricity generated by the car axle the coming method of passen gercar illumination 4 Members of the order of Modern Woodmen have arranged to run a special lb spe-cial train excursion from Denver to Salt Lake City leaving shortly after midnight on August 13th The excursion j excur-sion will be routed via the Colorado Southern the Midland and RloGrande Western going and will return via the Rio Grande It Is expected the session in Salt Lake will last about a week or ten days |