Show Railroad Notes 1 Utah coal will yet prove a Klondike The new Portland special Starts next Sunday Jolly Phil Hitchcock of tho Wabash Is In town 0 D E Burley and G W jllclntz are expected In today H M Clay of the Union Pacific Is out on the main line The local railroad situation was never more Interesting President Harriman will bo here several days on Short Line mailers The big 1500 and 1700 engines of the Union Pacific are doing splendid work The Colorado Midland has secured the mall contracts at Grand Junction Superintendent Sharp of the Pleasant Valley company left for the mines yesterday yes-terday The hotel lobby Is like the auditorium In Chicago during a passenger association associa-tion meeting VicePresident Schumacher of the I Conllncntal Fruit Express leaves for Chicago today All vlslllng officials arc guarded In their statements about the Burlington and Its surveys In Utah As one of the visiting officials aptly remarked last night It takes a longtime long-time to make big moves rho latest building stone contract secured se-cured by tho Sanpete Valley will add to Us already Increasing irafllc The Short Lines new passenger equipment Is the finest that the Pullman Pull-man company can turn out of Its shops Generally speaking Salt Lake Is more Interested In the union station matter than In any other railroad question VIcePresident and General Manager David C Dodge of the Rio Grande Western returned to Denver on No 2 I yesterday Out on the Union Pacific tho contractors con-tractors have rigged oul a lie and rail distributing train the first one lo come In the West Meetings of several Southern Pacific subcorporations were held In San Francisco yesterday Everybody was roelecled The Colorado Midland purchase by the Rio Grande Western and Colorado Soulhern will be concluded It Is thought by May 1st judging from remarks made last night some of the Eastern reporters arc regularly In the habit of misquoting misquot-ing railroad officials The only official who could not be found last evening was Freight Traffic Traf-fic Manager J A Mtlnroc who always has a good story to tell IC he can be Induced In-duced lo tell It If the Short Line were to extend fioiu Uvada and connect with the Souihern Pacific there Is no reason to think that It would change existing friendly rclallons at Ogdch VlcoPreuldent Schumacher of the toullnental Fruit Express says The Tribunes rallioail news Is always good I It Is probable he has not seen certain past articles on refrigerator and private pri-vate car lines Parties from Evanston say that the coal mines at Red Canyon have closed down for the present and thirty men are laid oft The men do not know the reason of the IChu down and do not believe It will jut long When the contemplated main line changes on tIme Union Pacific are completed com-pleted It will reflect the greatest credit upon President FT G Burt under whose direct supervision the work bus been and Is being so successfully carried car-ried on Enl1ntwt J A Yeatns with Fireman it C Klrkwood were on the engine pulllnf the Harriman special The trip from Uvada to Sail Lake was the best en record foe so heavy a train They left l Uvadu at 1030 a in and arrived at Salt Lake at 70 p m With tho Rock Springs mines supplying sup-plying main line and Nebraska trade the Diamond and Kwnmcror mines supplying Idaho and the Northwest Coalvlllc looking after local I Utah and l soUthern mines I worked for the southern south-ern California and Pacific coast supply the Union Pacific foal company would be In a splendid position to build up an enormous business for Itself and 1 tonnage for the Interested railroads |