Show Jt Railroad Notes ct ft Traffic continues very good The pas 2 m Genger travel l Is Increasing JI At least twtnly miles will bo odflec f to the St Anthony branch this summer sum-mer merThe The present weather In a good Indl I I cation that railroad construction cans can-s soon commence 1 3Tarry Cushing has gone to Denver with a special tram oC United States e I marines en route east s 1 lf D R Gray will have as his guest 54 1 today E II McCaffery a wellknown 5 Eastern traveling man rid j The worlc on the Mottat road Is now going along swiftly and more contracts i1 con-tracts will be let In a week or two With the new spur to the Snake rive I j valley sugar I factory the Short Line 1 will control a vast output of sugar ll from Idaho The annual imichloocarly talk or iJJ sheepshearing has commenced The sb loss each year In shearing before the k wilier moderates It Increasing The Southern Pnclllc has under con tract 125 firstclass J passenger > I coaches Of thfcso 103 are for the Pacific system sys-tem Seventyeight with reclining chairs arc being built by tho Pullman company Twnutyilvo are being built 0 l > y the Barney Smith company and fill w111 lf fitted with comfortable double ft y feats < The remaining twentytwo I which are being built by tho Pullman F h oinpany are Intended for the lines east of El Paso and arc all chaircars The Southern Pacific send out eighty nIne feet of tape with an affidavit that it was used to measure one of the gIant trees In the Yosemite valley The queer advertisement Is sure TO take wItlt the Eusrern public Frank KIdredge now in advance of When Knighthood Was In Flower Is a Salt Lake boy and was formerly In the Rio Grande Western cashiers nice lie left It to Join the Utah bat cries with whIch he served In the hlllpplnes John Hosklns chairman of the gen aral committee of the O n C In relating re-lating the tribulations of the trainmen on the Wiibash gets off a good para graph In the following In the spring when navigation opens ip and business busi-ness drops off these preferred crews wIth the big engines can handle about half oC the business and the rest of us can eat dried snowballs or wait until nice cold stormy winter comes around t gain with Its sleet and Ice on the run Jngboards on the tops of the cars Tho Southern Pacific has contracted for ninetytwo modern locomotives of which all but fifteen switch engines are for the Pacific system Oit these locomotives twentysix now on the catty West are of the largest type > of consolidation freight engines for use on mountain grades The remainder of the locomotives Include thirteen ilghspeed J passenger locomtlves of the AtlantIc type with drivers eightyfour Inches In diameter These are Intended tended for hauling heavy through rains at fast speed on the valley line Ten tenwheel passenger engines are also being constructed which will be used In moving similar trains over lines of heavier gradient Eighteen Mogul freight locomotives are being constructed con-structed for use In freight servIce these beIng of the standard freight engine type Twentyfive large switch engines for use In terminal yards are also ordered or-dered t |