Show ACTIVITY OF RAilWAYS This Month Will Bring Forth Some Changes WHAT IS LOOKED FOR Four Annual Meetings to Be Held j Which Will Be Full of Interest Three Trials Coming on of San PedroShort Line TroubleAlso I Expected That Some Contracts Will Be Let This Month Death of Oldest Old-est EngineerRailway Mileage of United States Railroad Notes October Is always a busy and interesting Inter-esting month for the railroads The present month however Is busier and moro Interesting than ever before the I good harvest and good times being responsible re-sponsible for the first mentioned condition condi-tion and the many events on the schedule I sched-ule for future action creating the interest I In-terest among railroad men In the first place four annual meetings meet-ings will be held this month the Union I Pacific Denver Rio Grande Rio Grande Western and Oregon Short Line The two most Important ones will be the Union Pacific and Denver Rio Grande which arc the parent i systems of the Short Line and Rio Grantlti Western respectively Some changes are exuected in the personnel of the directory of each of the parent systems notably In the Denver k Rio Grande but what these changes wIll be no one can guess Another Important feature of the month will lc 1 the annual reports which will be issued Hhortly after the annual meetings and which will show some good figures the Rio Grande Western on u mileage comparison eclipsing any of thb other roads The Ihst hearing In the San Pedro Short Line cases will come up October ICth to be followed by others on November No-vember 1th and lUh I so the legal departments de-partments are equally busy preparing for them Construction work is at a standstill except on line Improvements and some grading down in the Meadow Valley I wash but the month Is expected to give some Important developments in the San Pedro situation now that the survey to this city has been completed com-pleted Itls certain that the route detailed de-tailed In The Tribune recently the day after the surveyors arrived will bo approximately the line to be followed and some grading contracts may be let this autumn for this end of the line Taken altogether the next thirty days ought to be prolific In railroad news and announcements |