Show I MEHIf IN iMM1i i Greater Union Pacific Officials I I in Conference i i MATTERS MUTUAL INTEREST I I Omaha as Usual Has PJenty of Rumor Bio Grande Voatern Comes Up With Dividend Sells its Additional Preferred Stock First local Full Veslibuled Excursion Train Worlds Railway Mileage 466500 of Which United States I Has 186800 Railroad Notes Omaha Neb June 25 35xccutlvc officers of-ficers oC the Union Paotfic Oregon Short Line and Oregon Railway Navigation company met here today for the purpose of holding a conference relative to railroad matters in which the three railroads are mutually concerned con-cerned because of their closely alllcd Interests The meeting was attended by Prculdent Burt of the Union Pacific W D Cornish oC New York vicepres ident i of the Union Pacific and the Ore Ion I-on Short Line W I Bancroft vice I president and general manager S W Ecolos general traffic managp E ID I Salvln general superintendent J F Dunn superintendent of motive power aHor the Oicgon Short Lino at Salt I Lake and B Campbell of Portland general tralfic manager of the Oregon i Hallway Navigation comi any BIG CROWDS COMING CROVSCOING Utah and Colorado Mecca for AU Travelers ro Chicago June 25Tha action of tho I Chicago railways In making low rates for summer excursions particularly In I I the West has resulted In 0 largo Increase In-crease In business Tho tourist travel i to Colorado and Utah has been very large for the past week and the indications I Indica-tions are that an exceptional excursion business will be done In July and August i Au-gust gst gstFrt Frt Local Vestib led Train i For the llrst time In local railroad history a solid vestibule excursion train I ran out of Salt Lake on Sunday I was the Woodmens excursion the Rio Grande Vestcrl The train was made up of live cars I ran first to American Fork with Salt Lake Woodmen Wood-men and then to Provo for passengers from there to American Fork In the evening the train first went to Provo and returning picked up the excursionists excursion-ists at American Fork and came back to Salt Lake All new equipment was used the combination com-bination baggage and smoker 98 excursion ex-cursion cars 300 and 01 parlor coaches 217 and 218 All these caru are equipped I with heavy trucks full wide vestibules r and other new features They are painted exactly alike In tho new color I r and lettering and the interior finish is the same The train when made up was a beauty and greatly pleased the I I crowd at tho station as It was the prettiest pret-tiest local train ever operated out of Salt Lake Worlds Railway Mileage From time to time inquiries have been c4 made as to the worlds railway rrille age The German Railway Journal = Achlvfur Elscnbahnwesen places the p grand total for 1S99 at 160500 mil sOC s-OC this total the United States leads ad with 180800 miles Next comes Germany I T Ger-many with but 30776 miles Russia I 4b1 2GiOv France 25597 British India i India 21970 Austria lilS05 British I 3 J Isles 21528 British North America io r 1GSGO and the balance divided among me Qthel nations Spain Mexico and Sold Brazil each have a total mileage less h than the Northwestern system Japan lLiLl I Chile and Egypts miluagc ull put together it 1 to-gether Is 1 not equal to the Burlingtons Bailroaders in Politics airoaders PoUtcs l Pueblo Colo June 5he first annual p L an-nual convention of the Railroad Employees If Li ployees of Colorado met here today r Sessions were heJd wJth closed doors f Six organizations were represented as t follows I Telegraphers engineers conductors con-ductors switchmen firemen and trainmen L train-men Resolutions were > adopted condemning I condemn-ing the action of Congress In refusing 1l to publish tho testimony taken before the the Coeur dAlcnc investigating committee I com-mittee Also that 0 national organization organiza-tion bo formed with a view to controlling control-ling the selection of representatives into in-to Congress and State Legislatures 1 > It i E I Disposes of Preferred Stock e i The Railway Age says of the I RIO oo Grande Western The listing of 7000 shares of preferred stock just ordered I by the Now York slock exchange disposes dis-poses of the full amount of preferred Ir stock aulliorircd amount OOOOO The 1 5 company is using the proceeds of the Jt new stock Jn part payment for Improvement Im-provement expenditures on tho Utah proCnnL epondlure L Central for thu reduction of grades Ill I and curves on the main line for additional L1t l let tional equipment and for further a 1 teiinents on various parts of the system 1St sys-tem f 1 I t Announces its Dividend jug The Rio Grande Western announces ou 1 Its regular quarterly dividend on preferred ro pre-ferred stock of IVi per cent u J 17 L Railroad Notes A lc5 The Short Line and Union Pacific are i enjoying very heavy livestock traffic tr < tt fir 4 feOn July 1st the O R fc N will Inaugurate In-augurate a ihrcocont a mile passenger rate ii Some splendid wooden bridge work I splendi 4i has been completed for the Marysvulo 11 leD extension on the Rio Grande Western President Jcffery of the Denver Rio Grande officially announces that J G Grnde 01claJY 4I Motcalf Is lo come to the road as general gen-eral manager yfltf The name of Cannon station on the Ulan division of tho Short Line sixty 4 two miles norlh of Ogden has been f changed to Cornish lio4 The Union Pacific did a good thing in t nnerallntf so cheap an oxcI lon from 1ourt Wyoming to Salt Lake I will likely be repealed In July and again In August 4 Th Denver lUo Grande will build 1 miles extension of twentyseven short IrlcH I from a Tftxas Creek west of Pueblo to I Tmcs rJch in resources at Silver ch sccllon it SI ri ti reach a 5ccton ver Cliff Clf t I Harry Cushing of the Denver Rio Grande returned last night from Don the town Is on the vcr He says 5in He vest t boom and full of excursionists ward bound In the death of W G Curtis engineer > f maintenance of way on the South another pioneer of that road Pacific Sr t2 ern away He entered the service font p of passes the Central Pacific In ISOo when only tcfaiu 1C years of no Thc Canda and Schoen coal cars are Til Camln eclipsed by an Immense selfcleaning S Shopper car of 110000 pounds plc I S ttIrOLl and described In the Hallway I tl AH a mailer of fact the cur was Ace mufCl I loaded once with 122000 pounds or six tyone ions If tone special from Omaha last II rbunc of the A subofllolal treads hot < night It n S Pacific states thai the railroad Union Pacllc t tH 4 lo complete the terms of confcrcnco JB cmnpllte l ellms 41 t contcrclco praclicuHy puts the Union 4 4 3 I t Pacific ainancc In absolulp control from Omu J p I ha to Portland with headquarters In Omaha Thin Is a Very old story repeated re-peated and denied ten IJmes each cal Omaha Is full of rumors as to what Um ofilclalM are doing there From what learned was alncd prior to the departure depart-ure of thu Salt I Lakers the meeting Is meotng similar to the one recently hold In this CIty cliyW W A Caswell president of the Cas well Car and Improvement company of I Chicuso 1M at Pocalello supervising then I construction of n number of Caswell I dump oars for tho Short Line All of the work is being done at the Poca lello shops j |