Show Railroad Notes Col D C Dodge decided to return homo via tho Santa Fe Visiting officIals were entertained at the Ala club last evening Senator Clarks road the United Verde Pacific is being reorganized t The Union Pacific will order some more motive power In the near future I General Superintendent Calvin Is making ma-king an official tour over the Idaho division l I di-vision Salt Lake is surely getting to be 0 I popular gathering place for railroad conferences General Superintendent Welby Is figuring fig-uring out the working timecard for the extensive changes to be made soon Mr Ileafford Is crawfishing on his Dont Worry card and denies most emphatically that the Milwaukee road will pay commissions I G W Megeath of Omaha formerly superintendent of the coal department J I of the Union Pacific Is a guest at the I Knutsford being In the West on Wyoming Ji i I Wyo-ming coal matters The Chicago S Northwestern hat i doubletracked its line about 400 miles I toward Omaha I is the first road west of the river to havo a second track I i which will be another Improvement of a very fine system Marvin Hughltt Jr has been appointed I ap-pointed freight traffic manager of the Chicago Northwestern and E D Brigham succeeds him as general freight agent Mr Hughltt has many friends out West who will Join In offering of-fering their congratulations The Northwestern officials while here I should be made to feel that the people of Utah would welcome that system to the State more warmly than almost any other road and with all the local development going on the returns to the company would be of the most substantial sub-stantial kind General Passenger Agent Hanson of I the Illinois Central will bo here in a row days I will be the first official I visit of a representative official of that system lately securing an Omaha terminal I ter-minal I has been stated that an Illinois linois Central through car will be operated ope-rated on the western HarrIman roads after March IsU The Railroad Gazette says of the Union Pacific Up to January 20th this company had acquired S7D 1600 of the tptal 11000000 preferred stock of the Oregond Railroad Navigation and 0615700 of the S7718GOO common stock I exclusive of the shares owned by the Oregon Short Line The Union Pacific I had also acquired 511301500 of the 5HS11000 Oregon Short Line B bonds Despite assertions to the contrary which are traced to the Omaha papers the Ogden gateway will not bo discussed dis-cussed by officials in this city during the present week I is equally untrue that the Southern Pacifics new Rio Grande service will have any influence on the Oregon Short Lines policy which has been stated several times of late in Denver as well as Omaha panel pa-nel nelThere There is every indication that Salt Lake will see some lively passenger train competition as is cited by the Union Pacific putting on diners on 3 and C The Rio Grande Western and Denver Rio Grande have already announced an-nounced that they would put on diners on all six trains between here and Denver Den-ver The outcome of this friendly rival ry will be of Interest to the public which receives all the benefit of the improvements im-provements in the service |