Show ACTIVITY ON WEST SIDE II I 1 I Land for Railroad Use Is in l 1 Demand lr l r j AGENTS QUIETLY AT WORK I II I Tho Short Line Has Already Secured I Its Site for the Big Shop Plant to I Be Erected in North Salt Lake I Southern Pacific Is Now Interested I Union Pacific Officials Pleased With TJintah CutOff Survey Short Lino Officials in San Francisco Fran-cisco HeadEnd Collision Notes In the quietest manner possible I agents have been at work buying up property on the west side for railroad I purposes Property in the section Is very low and In fact Is being secured for a mere song but that the whole I plat between Fifth West and the river from Third South to the Copper plant will be greatly advanced In value very soon well posted men have no doubt The Tribune has already told In detail de-tail how the Short Line will locate Its shops near St Marks hospital I was also shown a feV days ago that the Southern Pacific was also buying land and it now appears that the mechanical mechani-cal plant of the Harrlman roads of the future will be located In that section as there Is certainly a concentrated move In that direction And apropos of thc Southern Pacific building In to the city along the south shore the old grade of the J W Young TJtah Western and other projects Is I still In existence and takes In the tangent tan-gent run by the Southern Paclllc almost al-most to a line The grade could be utilized by the Southern Pacific In many ways as It taps the see lon where land is being bought There is another feature of the railroad rail-road situation which points to the building of this same section The Union Pacific engineers are said to b well pleased with the results obtained in preliminary work for surveys from Weber canyon over the bench to Lay ton on the Short Llneas n steady downhill grade would result from the canyon to Salt Lake while at present the hill this side of Ogden has lohe figured In the roundabout Short Line haul Where nil these investigations will end and what the result will be II hard to foretell but that some important impor-tant moves arc in contemplation which will prove of vast benefit to this city and State Is certain HITCH IN PLANS Darias Miller Will Not Control the Northern Pacific Traffic Chicago Sept 25 James J Hill president of the Great Northern was in Chicago today and held an Important Import-ant conference with several railroad mel of prominence I Is stated that the purpose of Mr Hills visit here was to arrange for the coming of Da traffic of the rias Miller as trafc manager Great Northern and Burlington It developed de-veloped that Mr Miller 1 not come to Chicago until after the annual meeting meet-ing of the Northern Pacific in October The RecordHerald tomorrow will say There Is a hitch In the original plans as outlined 1 by Mr Hill I was his desire to have Mr Miller In Chicago Chi-cago in charge of the traffic of three roads and to oust President Mellen of the Northern Pacific In his plan also I the Northern Pacific was to play second fiddle to the Great Northern In the matter of getting exchange traffic from the Burlington Mr > Mellon however proved strong enough to frustrate a portion of this plan and when he obJected ob-jected to Mr Miller being placed over his head in the matter of traffic his objection was favorably c considered by the Harriman people As a compromise compro-mise Jt was decided to permit Mr Miller to como as traffic director of the Great Northern and Burlington with advisory privilege over the Northern Pacifics traffic TALKING WATER RATES omcnsAef San Francisco to Get Them Aligned San Francisco Sept 2o Officials of the Oregon Railway Navigation company Oregon Short Line and Pacific Pa-cific Coast company are at the Palace I holding a conference on steamer rates between this port and Portland ind Seattle and rail and water rates from here to Washington Oregon Idaho and Montana towns via Portland and Seattle Seat-tle The Interested parties assert that no noteworthy change In either passenger or freight rates are contemplated the principal object of the conference being be-ing to make f more suitable division of lines through rates among the prorating Collision Near Mounds TRIBUNE SPECIAL Grand Junction Colo Sept 23 Engineer En-gineer Thomas Ruder badly scalded and Fireman McNcer slightly Injured in a head end collision six miles cast of Mounds Utah were brought to Grand Junction tonight for treatment The collision occurred this morning between No 1 and a light engine Railroad Notes The Mexican National Is to he blQllgn tied Pocatello has reason to feel happy over thc railroad prospect I 35 Osborne agent for the Wells Fargo Express company at Provo spent yesterday In the city VlcuPresldent W IX Cornish of the Union Pacific system was walcom d at the Short Line offices again yesterday yester-day he having been quite sick at the Knutsford for a week pat 1 I is reported In Mexico railway circles cir-cles that the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railway company is negotiating for tho purchase of the Rio Grande Sierra Madre and Pacific railroad which rung southwest from El Paso to Terraxaz In thc State of Chllbualum Mexico If the deal iu consummated It is proposed to extend the acquired line southwest 1 to the port of Guaymas on the Gulf of 1 California Such purchase and extension exten-sion wouldgive the Santa Fe f new direct outlet gve Us Oriental 1 and much I of its Pacific coast business I |