Show s C RIDGWAY COMING Moffat Road is Ready for Work in Utah t s OUTFITS LEFT ON SUNDAY j f Will Be in Salt Lake on Tonth II i of Month I I t v I I Coming in Via Vernal and the Park I i 11 I City Route as Heretofore Given Giv-en in Detail I i I It I 1 Word has Just been received In this t city by parties who have been here a i 1 week or more awaiting the arrival of i I General Manager A C Ridgway of the Denver Northwestern d Pacific rail d wn > thnt the outfit left Vernal last Sunday and Is coming to Park City 3t consists oC wagons and saddle horses ti regular field survoyors outfit and 2r Rldgway Is accompanied by a number num-ber of engineers who are selecting the + final route for the survey When they IJ left Vcrnnl tho party was heading for r I Park City and expect to be In Salt Lake > 11 t City next Sunday 1 The party who Is here awaiting Mr Rldgway thought he was coming by 11 and thus arrived a week too soon it was only yesterday that they re celved word that he was crossing the i mountains with teams I Mr Ridgway was formerly connected WIth the Florence Cripple Creek rail L wny was afterwards superintendent of I It and the Golden Circle railway the i electric line that runs around he Crlp i lple Creek mining district then became general superintendent of the Colorado Springs Cripple Creek railroad and j c Tall of its local trolley lines Although yet a young man he holds his position u through the fact that t he was literally brought up in the railroad business having been the assistant of his father an old railroad man since he was a fariere boy I J 1 r WESTERN PACIFIC MEETING I jEo Bo Held in San Francisco on July 27th Next I i f An Important meeting of the West tern Pacific will be held in San Francisco 1 Fran-cIsco on July 27th when the directors r will authorize a mortgage to secure nO000000 of bonds to provide for the construction and equipment of the line ito Salt Luke City The company will oleo provide for the taking over of the San Francisco Terminal Y Jthe Railway tC > Ferry company the Stockton TBcck rtvlth Pass Railway company nnd the Sacramento Oakland Railway company 1 com-pany The new securities are to be thirty i f year 6 per cent first mortgage gold bonds r Routing tho Wool e From all accounts it Is evident that the aim of the Union Pacific In naming the routing for wool east of the river will bo to give the wool to roads in return for westbound shipments In fact this Is said to have been tho real t reason for the opening of the Cheyenne i and Denver gateways That Is to say k If the Burlington gives the Union Pacific Pa-cific a car of wire nails for Utah the Union Pacific will give it a car of wool for Boston and If the Milwaukee nnd Northwestern lines give care qf merchandise mer-chandise they will get cars In exchange on eastbound shipments But whether 1 the Union Pacific can control the routIng rout-Ing la the mooted question I isr Transcontinental Mooting f Milwaukee WIs June aThe Transcontinental Trans-continental Freight association met in convention here yesterday behind closed doors Edward Chambers of Los iAngeles Cal one of the leading railroad th rail-road men attending the convention itriikj + says the object of the meeting Is to r4 check over transcontinental freight I rates and also rates from the Pacific I coast to the Orient lLgfl l tf1 Tho S P Shop Plans solxl San Francisco Juno Speaking of the proposed consolidation of Southern Pacific machine shops Superintendent r M tof Motive Power II J Small said In I nn Interview N J The report that the Southern Pacific l Nr4 company will close down Its shop at J p Bal < crstlelll is Incorrect What the com it I pany will do is to consolidate the shops t nt Truckee nnd Wadsworth at Reno When Uio new cutoff tracks arc used in Nevada tho road will not touch N pVndsworth and on this account we have decided that the consolidation of the machine shops at Reno is neces EllrJ I I Would It Surprise the Public I If there would be some lively nows or changes around the Short Lino within n short time If the Short Line should order into the field several corps of engineers with destination lI pt secret If this month should see some devel onmonis in the Salt Lake station 1 If the San Pedro people should drive over to Cedar City from Modena and r to 1iflh Springs from Ironton i If the Salt Lake tC Mercur should be next on the list 0 R N Plans l Portland Ore June President A ilohlcr of the Oregon Railroad fwd 3y it1 ntl Uration President E E Lytle ot the Columbia Southern and the t of party surveyors who have been examining he l country between Shanlke and Hem ylth the view of gathering data for n i cPOrt to be went to Mr Harrlman re iturncd i to Portland today A They took a two hundredmile trip In 1 carriaes through the which country along I the proposed road will run and t Pct conoldorable time gathering data and mn irtB for tllllr report Mr Harrl of before authorizing an extension hie fO system Into central and southern Ortgon 1 requested President Mohler to go r JI over the Around and make a report on the S ill r luftf e resources present and prospoc or I y1 the territory n1 Acco iPdnylng Mr Mohler was Pro tl t FnTch S of cncn of the agricultural department the < V make University of Idaho who will 1d c n report on the nature of the foil r 11matic uttc conditions etc and hln re Jf port Is expected to havo considerable t ce c1 Influence on the decision of Mr Harrl man Railroad Notes Traffic Is very heavy The air Is heavy with rumors The Increases are growing greater The Erie is again figuring In the reports re-ports of deals Ono story is that the Erie Is to be 1 the Eastern outlet for the Gould lines and Union Pacific For the third week of May the gross earnings of the Rio Grande system amounted to 321200 an increase of 8000 The Short Line will in a few days place orders for the 26 locomotives for which Hpeclllcatlons were prepared some months ago Assistant Manager Calvin of the Short Line states that nothing has been decided as to the successor to Mr Hen derson or the rearrangement of the divisions di-visions The National of Mexico Is to sell a large interest to the Mexican Government Govern-ment and consolidate with other roads This company is organized under the laws l of Utah The San Pedro could not do better than to get the Sanpetc with Its coal supply 10 miles south of Salt Llke und its entrance to the fertile valley which has always given the Short Line tho long l haul on livestock wool atone gypsum merchandise and coal President Presi-dent Brubnck however states that as < yet nothing has been done toward the palo of the property nor have negotiations negotia-tions been opened although It was stated in The Tribune a week ago that it would likely be absorbed by the San Pedro |