Show ElEGTRIG l NE TO OGDEN New Company to Cbnstruct Road and Open Resorts I I I BACKED BY EASTERN CAPTAL I Road will Have 70Pound Steel I wl Overhead Trolley and Double Track I I to Farmlngton A Quigley is VicePresident and Says Road will i Surely bo Built Union Pacific and Other Officials Gather Arranging Consolidation of Agencies Todays i Conference More Omaha RUmors ConerenceMoro II I I I I I 1 An electric railway between Salt Lake and Ogden Is planned The notable I no-table feature are outlined to be seven sev-en rails overhead trolley system V sys-tem double track between Salt Lake and Farmlngton half hour service to that town and hour service to Ogden I Those who arc at the head of the project pro-ject state that work will commence at once and should be finished this year adding that 1C the equipment can be secured a largoportion of the line can bo In operation by August 1st Articles of Incorporation of the Salt Lake Valley Railway company were I yesterday filed In the ofllco of tho County Clerk The Incorporators are Arthur Kennedy South Bend Ind I I who takes 2Sn shares Charles A Qulg ley Salt Lake thirtytwo shares Thud W Naylor William P Ilemphlll I Frank L Beatle all of Salt Lake one share each The capital stock Is placed at 32000 divided Into 320 shares of the par value I of SIOO each Arthur Kennedy Is named as president of the incorporation Charles A Quigley vicepresident Thad W Naylor secretary and treasurer treas-urer who with William P Ilemphlll and Frank L Bealic compose the directorate di-rectorate The object of the company as stated is to build and operate a railroad from Salt Lake to Ogden through Salt Lake Davis and Weber counties which may be operated by steam electricity compressed or liquid air The estimated cost of construction construc-tion Is 520000 a mile or a total of SC40 000 The company by Its articles of Incorporation Is also authorized to build branch roads purchase and operate bathing resorts and hotels V VicePresident Quigley when seen last evening gave The Tribune all the del < sls as far a progressed G A I GIbbs the civil engineer has been employed i em-ployed to start at once on the surveys between here and Ogden which are to be pushed to an early finish I The president Mr Kennedy Is a prominent man of South Bend where he has invested a large sum In a sim j liar electric road which Is successfully operated twent two miles He left at noon yesterday for the East and Europe Eu-rope but will return here In the spring to push the road through All the nec ospary funds have been secured and Mr Quigley says the line will surely be built which is certainly good news for the people living between here and Ogden The line will be built to reach all the settlmcnls or us near them as good engineering will permit One of the arguments In favor of such a line Is that it would create a new traffic for Itself and would not interfere inter-fere withtho steam roads MANY OFFICIALS HEBE Hotel and General Offices Scene of Railroad Conferences Officials of the Union Pacific and Oregon Railroad Navigation company arrived yesterday and with others Is here from Portland and General Agent II O Wilson is down from ditto The Southern Pacific officials arrive In Ogden today but as it Is necessary for them to return at once the Union Pacific and Northwestern officials will go to Ogden to meet them this morning returning here tor tho conference with the Short Line and Navigation people While nothing was done yesterday toward holding a regular meeting yet the Short Line offices were visited I by most of the arriving officiate and short talks between department heads were frequent and the Knutsford corridor was overflowing with prominent railroad rail-road men Mr Burt did not come uptown up-town COMBINING THE AGENCIES Union PacificOregon Systems Arranging Ar-ranging Details of Plan While the minor details are yet to be decided upon for the consolidation of tho agencies of the Union Pacific Oregon Ore-gon Short Line and Navigation company com-pany the general plan m at first outlined out-lined will be adhered to That Is the initial line will take the agency In Portland the Oregon Short Line and Union Pacific separate agencies will be abolished and the Oregon Railroad Navigation company will establish A city office representing the Overland Route In Butte tho Short Line olllco remains but tho Union Pacific and Navigation agencies go In San Francisco Fran-cisco the Union Pacific controls the agency and this will be the case also In Eastern cities Here In Salt Lake the Oregon Short Line as the initial road takes the city ticket office but owing to local competition General Agents Choate and Clay remain In their present positions workmg exclusively for the Union Pacific As stated when the order was first made the move is n natural one which will prove of economical benefit to the management of tho three roads which is Identical V The change has started all kinds of sensational rumors but as far a The Tribune could learn yesterday there is i nothing on which these rumors can be based and there will be no change at all In the general situation ONE GENERAL MANAGER Latest Omaha Rumor About Union Pacific and Allied Lines Omaha Feb GThere is a revival oCtal oC-tal I around the Union Pacific headquarters head-quarters that the consolidation of freight and passenger agencies of the Union Pacific Oregon Short Line and Oregon Railway Navigation company com-pany Is preliminary to tho consolidation consolida-tion of the operating departments of the three roads and that In a short time they will all be under the jurisdiction Juris-diction of one general manager and that the general manager of the Union Pacific They were operated In this manner before the segregation of the roads under the receivership Men well up in the railroad world express the opinion that the change Is sure to come as It Is expensive retaining so many high salaried officials Comparing 1000 with 1S91 guides it Is seen that today on the three roads there arc the following who might be termed operating officials on the lines Indicated President and general man anl reneml I ager on the Union Pacific two offices vicepresident and general manager ot the Short Line one office president and general manager of the Navigation company one office or four In all In the 1891 guide the following are found President third vicepresident general manager assistant general manager I general manager each for Kansas Nebraska Gulf Mountain and Pacific I divisions Leaving out the Gulf gives eight general operating officials in 1S91 as against four In 100 The Union Pacific Pa-cific has power to do anything It wishes in such matters but the Omaha talk is never based on facts as is ngaln proved by the comparison of managing officials V Through Alaska Snows Seattle Wash Feb GThe White Pass Yukon railway resumed j through train service between Skaguay and Lake Bennett January 31st after a blockade of more than two weeks I was 2 p m ot that date when the Ben si V V I I L I J > k pi I I iv I 1k 1 af1 II I V p Snap Shots in Corridor and General Offices V I swelled the list of prominent railroaders already in Uio city Of the Union Pn ciflc there aro present President Burt Freight Tronic Manager Slunroft Gen oral Manager Dickinson General Pus censor Agent Lomax Mechanical Superintendent Su-perintendent McConnell ChlcC Surgeon Jonas and Superintendent E C Harris 1 of tho Wyoming division Of tho Navigation Navi-gation company arc President Mohler I and Tralllo Manager CampqftlK General t Agent W E Coman of the Short Line nett train with Klondlkcrs aboard rolled Into Shuguay Five hours later the Rosalie whose officers brought ofcrs brourht the news of the end of the snow blockade block-ade sailed for Seattle The officials of ofcials the railroad expressed the belief that the snow would cause them po more serious trouble V Protest Against Classification I Chicago Feb 5Fltty or moremen representing the shipping and manu facturing Interests In various parta of I the country appeared before the West ern classification committee here I today and protested against many of the charges In freight HasslMention that became effcctlvo January 1st They presented lengthy arguments In support sup-port of their contention that present rates discriminated against the small shipper In favor of the larger ones and that the Inrifi sheets should be changed as soon as possible The meeting wl be continued t < morrow mor-row and the classification committee has assured the shippers that If they arc convincing enough in their arguments argu-ments It will recommend to the proper changed authorities that the classification be Stillwell In a New Role Kansas City Mo Feb G Arthur K F Stlllwell builder of the Kansas City Plttsburg Gulf railroad and mull mat year Its prpsldont is organizing the American Ylmotlon Cur company which owns patents for n gasoline on I glue which It is claimed will mlnlm lp the expense of operating street cnrs Mr Stlllwoll will be president of the company and have associated with him Jesse M Thompson o California said to be the inventor of the cable car system and George J Atkins of Chicago Chi-cago owners of the patent to be usort by the new concern The company will Mr Stlllwell says have a capital capi-tal of S OOOOOO will construct a manufacturing man-ufacturing plant at Indianapolis an assembling plant in Kansas City and have offices In New York Chicago and Kansas City Contracts for Car Doors VIcePresident TV J Cooke of the McGuIro Manufacturing company of Chicago Is In the city He yesterday made 0 contract with the Oregon Short Line to equip all its box cars with the patent McGulre Inside door As the company has several I thousand box cars the contract Is H large one The same firm supplied the Salt Lake City railroad rail-road with the fine snow sweeper recently re-cently received Railroad Notes The new Rio Grande service goes Into effect two weeks from next Sunday Visiting olllclals were again pleasant ly entertained at the Ala club last night According to present plans the Ogden route of the Southern Pacific will soon have one of the finest roadbeds and tracks in the West Messrs McCulIough Gardner San born and Schroyer of the Northwestern leave for tho East at 7 oclock this morning They will stay In Ogden The Oregon Short Line received yesterday yes-terday the first shipment of this years I supply of Ice from Market Lake About twenty cars dally will be received here i until tho Icehouses are filled While the ice this year Is only onehalf the thickness thick-ness they have cut from the same ponds heretofore yet the foreman reports re-ports the quality as being equal to that of any other year C A Schroyer who Is In tho city Is superintendent of the car depart of the Chicago Northwestern and was pres ident of the Master CarBuilders association asso-ciation lie is one of the foremost au thorities In the United States on all matters pertaining to car construction which probably accounts for the splen did car equipment of the Northwestern country line the second largest system In this |