Show WILL BEGIN WORK SONS SON-S Pedro Almost Ready t < uic I From This End VIccPresIdent J Boss Clark of the Ii San Pedro L Angeles l Salt Lake Ii recently sal in Los Angeles We arc preparing lo begin operations opera-tions at lIe Salt Lake end o the San Pedro load Lines have been run out of that city and in a short time it will be possible lo decide de-cide which Is the boat of them Then work will begin I think it will be by the opening of the new years Au to anY connection eastward from Salt Lake there Is little to say II It Is a subject we arc not thinking much abbot The Burlington 1stn hailing distance dis-tance and it looks as if the road would be in Salt Lake In time to give us a connection But there will be ways to liandle all our business eastward when t h our road Is there We are not at all anxious on that point a Meantime the company Is taking time by the forelock and getting plenty or equipment for Its imse100 forty ton flat cars 50 ballast cars 100 forty ton box cars 2 baggage cars3 combination cars I coaches 3 chair cars 11 and 3 panel cars all of the most modern mod-ern construction and to be turned out as fast as possible for the road From the way the work If progress plgless Ing between Los Angeles and Pomona Po-mona there is every reason to expect that by the close of the year the thirty operate miles under contract will be ready to id By that time things will be ready for another stretch of the road eastward east-ward from Pomona toward the point 1olnt 5o where the road will cross the mountains moun-tains i I 1 Now Pacific Boute San Francisco Oct 25The Chronicle says that one of the principal officers of the AmericanHawaiian Steamship company is authority for the statement that an Important traffic arrangement with the Panama Railroad company is under consideration Since the Inauguration ru ration of the line u year ago the Amer I icanHawaiian companys steamers on the route connecting New York with this port and Honolulu have been running j run-ning through the Straits of Magellan I calling at no Intermediate ports of the line except to coal Under the arrangement said to be under negotiation the six largo steamers steam-ers of lie AmericanHawaiian line will I i soon be plying no further south than Panama three running between this fu port Honolulu and Panama the others between the Isthmus and Now York with the Panama Railroad company I doing all the overland business brought to Its cighlyinllo road by the great ocean carriers lhls will Include the handling of Hawaiian sugar for tile rA transportation of which the American Hawaiian tracts company has valuable con t I i Gates Buys n Railroad Patlonburg Mo Oct 25rhe Kansas Kan-sas City Northern Connecting railroad rail-road was sold ut auction hero today for 500000 to H C Wright of Chicago representing the Interests of John W I Gates I was previously stated that a f q syndicate headed by Il Gates was anxious to secure the property to form Part of a big railroad system which Is l9 to Include the Omaha Kansas City tM Cltyf Ml i1stera and the Chesapeake Ohio 1 Hailroad Notes q rnc continues heavy D I Gray has gone to San Francisco x L v Hahn of the Burlington Is back i Jk P Morgans special has reached Now York C F Warren of the Santa Fe has red re-d turned from the East il Traveling Freight Agent Lindsay of I I the Northwestern baa gone East u > The famous Sunset Limited goes on ii December 3rd via the Southern Pacific g acIIQ Even passenger ofllclals are surprised at up the way passenger trallic has kept General Agents Aldrich and Walker I or Butte the Northwestern have gone tp The Salt LakoJOoston sleeper of the i flock Island will hereafter wl hereaCcr run through WiUmt slop Hlo Grande Western No1 will leave it 124 i 1 t lieea ler Tho Park City i tl JI Wi leave aL 81G a m and ar i llvo at 515 p m 1 I Thme llseo system had 510 < l gross 11 I 131 and aurnlus ° f 1OCO200 after all cXpcn lom2V afer IU 9 and fixed Mndnnxed churSC3 had been Paid fOr the fiscal t tl fscat year b Tn hc order to do away with ii8 much of rnelt dust u as O 116 on Lha pUt of the West of Focatcllo It Is I the POCteJo It said that Oregon Short Line > lll haul this let winter gravel from the pits near Lima Mont and surface most of thy line west of American Falls The Tntei state Commerce commission held a hearing yesterday in New York to hear case of discrimination In rates agalhst flour and in favor wheat Tho Oiogtm Short Line has had an order in for some time for ten neW passenger pas-senger engines of the 700 class Their delivery Is Just beginning to be made When all are received six of them will be assigned to runs west from Poca tcllo and four cast to Granger After that time the G50qlncs engines now being used on these runs will be put on thO passenger trains between Pocatello Poca-tello nnd Salt Lake and the Butte cud Messrs Bancroft and Calvin have returned re-turned from Idaho As lo their wagon trip to Idaho City they gay that the Boise reports are incorrectas the trip was made simply to give them a chance to see the country and Judge of Its possibilities pos-sibilities but it doesnt mean that a Short Line branch is to be built They will make a similar trip from Mackay and to other points merely to famlllar Ize themselves with all territory tribu tary to the Short Line |