Show i Railroad Notes r Yesterday ended conference travel I j ViccPrealdent Bancroft has been III for several days i I Presldpnt Burt of tho Union Pacific I will also be here today I S It is Impossible lo get a surveyor In I this city All arc at work Big 202 of the Western pulled forty loaded cars to Ogden the other day The Sanpeto Valley road had a train of live stock out of MantI on Sunday Tho legal barrier to the Pullman Wagner combination has bpen removed Gannon of the Southern makes light I of the strike which is rather a bad policy I Tho presence of Burlington surveyors In northern Utah and Idaho is creating I great Interest The Union Pacific mutoscope was started yesterday with a picture of the Overland Limited An unknown man was killed on the I Southern Pacific early yesterday morning I morn-Ing near Wells NQV About three trafub per day sixty ears of oranges are passing I through Salt Lake on the Western The Interstate Commerce commissioners commis-sioners concluded thelu session in Seat 1 tic yesterday and started for Salt Lake The Salt Lake division of the Southern South-ern Pacific receiving twentyfive fine I locomotives from the Cooke locomotive I works I The Rio Grande Western Is I considering consider-ing fthe t order of one hundred 100000 pounds capacity steel coal cars for its japidlyincivuslng coal trahihu rite main fact brought out In the Interstate Commerce commission hearing hear-ing on the Pacific coast is that tho testimony tes-timony taken III the four cities will inaki from 2rOO to SOOy typewritten pages S S SS The National Geographic Magazine has 1 an interesting article on the llarri man Alaska expedition It 18 written by Henry Gannett chief geographer of tho United Slates geological aurvey who Is well known here I Four of the new Southern Pacific cn sineH for the Salt Lake division arrived yesterday They arc of the same fIc as the IGOOclass engines recently put mi the Union Pacific These nix the first Installment of an order of twenty two t new locomotives it was slatedyesterdaythitt M some ISaHtern parties havo nuidc overtures for an option on the Sanpete Valley railroad and Its two coal mines Local officials refused to confirm tbls hut it would not bo surprising as the coal inliibs of the company will some day prove very valuable to a new road entering en-tering Utah Good luck l seems to be scattered all along Ihe Burlingtons new line UJ the North Platte valley to Guernsey Wyo The discovery of an npparemly Inexhaustible I Inex-haustible snivel bed on the new hue lathe la-the I latest report The gravel isoC a quality excellent for biillanting purposes pur-poses ami will Haye haullngmany ciip of smelter slug SAt S-At a recent meeting of the New York Automobile club the first steps toward the construction of a national highway across the continent were taken Gen Miles Col Pope and other prominent I men are Interested in the movement The route from New York to San Francisco Fran-cisco Is through Buffalo Chicago Omaha Oma-ha Denver and Salt Lake City Between Be-tween Omaha and Denver the route follows the uhorlest line the Burlington Burling-ton railroad passing through LiucOin and Hastings Neb |