Show I EQUIPMENT ORDER J I Oregon Short Lines Extension j Exten-sion Plans for the Year 1 NEW RAILS TO OGDEN i I f Over 1100 Pieces of Rolling Stock to Be Added Means an Expenditure of Close to S1 500000 and Will Greatly Facilitate Faci-litate Handling of Traffic O Last year the Oregon Short Line expended ex-pended large sums In bettering Its property hut the present year will undoubtedly 1 un-doubtedly eclipse the last one In this 7 respect Ever since the present management I man-agement took the road in March JS07 the lines and the equipment have been steadily improved to bring them up to the highest standard of excellence and the result has been to Increase the Power > and capacity of the equipment In every way while the road is taldng 0 ltd place among the best In the country as to physical condition nut the food work will not stop with the post contracts but will go on thla yofir and probably for some years to come Speaking of the work to be done llilc year rjtnyral Superintendent lv E Calvin said yesterday that plans arks In hnnd for a resumption of the general improvement and UP soon as the weather breaks men will be placed on the line to continue the work left off last fall This will Include ballasting from ache Junction north to McCam mon from Nampa to Uuntlngton and 100 miles north from Pocatcllo i NRV HAILS TO OGDEN The most Important Improvement locally will be the relaying of the line from Salt Luke to Ogden with new SO pound steel rails The present track Is a good om GOpound rail laid In 1SSI + but with the heavier engines ant the demand for faster trains the new rail will prove a great benefit It will make y the local district the finest on the line and with the handsome stations and right of way adornment will give the stranger entering Salt Lake a fine Idea I of Its Importance The present rail can well be utilized for fuiura extensions sidings and other work Then the SO pound rail will be laid 1 from Granger west 30 miles and 1C miles north of Dillon Dil-lon This with bridge renewals concrete work widening banks and miscellaneous miscel-laneous work will keep the department fairly busy during the year In extensions the most Important will be the completion of the V amln Lon cutoff and the construction of the ilalad Valley line LAHGK ORDERS FOR EQUIPMENT The company also has plans for 1m ineiiHQ orders foriiew equipment to be added this year This In addition to the orders placed recently but which came tinder the appropriations for last year although only now being delivered The last order Included U engines 1 crane and GOt cars This will be eclipsed this year with a grand total of 1120 pieces to be added to the roads equipment equip-ment Including 5 switch engines 2 passenger engines 10 freight engines 1 dining car 2 baggage cars 100 steel coal cars 500 box cars and 300 slock earn When It Is considered that this iY will represent an expenditure of close to JluOO00000 It speaks mighty well for the through tralllc as well as for the trafllc developed In Utah and Idaho J It will give the Short Line additional facilities also for handling Its enormous traffic r Park City Branch Suit The Supreme court yesterday denied the petition of the Rio Grande Railway company for a rehearing of their case against the Utah Nursery company and William Smith The ult was originally origi-nally brought for the purpose of condemning con-demning a rightofway over which the Rio Grande wished to build a spur from Its mnln line from Twelfth South and Ninth East streets about three and threetenths miles east In SnIt Lake county The proposed rightofway had already been surveyed Wllllum Smith had a lien on part of the property Fought to be condemned but he defaulted de-faulted On March 2Cnd In the DlsJmiet court a Jury returned a verdict In favor fa-vor of the Nursery company awarding It J9G7S92 damages The appeal was taken by the railroad company principally princi-pally on the question of excessive damages dam-ages Railroad Notes The Pore Marquette has bought the Luho Eric Detroit The OdgonLucln cutoff will undoubtedly undoubt-edly be finished this year I Norman 15 Heam wm elected to the Lehlgh Valley directory yesterday The Interstate Commerce Commission was In salon 1 In Chicago yesterday Austin Gavin lit I at work again for the Midland after his narrow escape In a wreck The Louisville Nashville granted the firemen a ten per cent increase yesterday yes-terday Tin Santa Fe painters got an eight cents nor day Increase yesterday and they no doubt painted Topeka red last night The Short Line Is tearing down the row of cottages on Its land on the northeast north-east sonar I of Fifth West and South Temple which was the plan when the lota wore purchafod Assistant General Traffic ManagerS Manager-S II Babcock of the Rio Grande lines leaven thin morning for a ten diy biiKhiifws trip to tins agencies of the nystcm on the coast Mrs Habcock will accompany him It will be interesting to Utah poo pie to know that the Hicks locomotive I Jnd tar w < rks have Just completed a hamlsome private car for General Man rigor Welby and other officials of the Coiro de Insco road In Porn It will oi Chipped by steamer from Sjnn Francisco Fran-cisco The Kansas City Mexico t Orient IHlJI ordered SOO boxcars 100 coal and stockcars JOO flatcars and six ca boopcH for the American Car and Foundry company A pretty good order for a mad which haH not built HH line yet Hut U will i be an additional proof that the Stilwell road Is all right |