Show I BARLOW NAS RESIGNED I Leaves the Short Line to Accept Ac-cept Good Promhtionv WELL KNOWN ENGINEER Will Become Manager and ChiofEn gineer of Big Project in Washington Washing-ton Not Known Who Will Succeed Him on the Idaho Division Coos Bay Line Will Build Another Trestle Across the Great Salt Lake to Secure Entrance to This City Via Tool County Hailroad Notes J Q Barlow has resigned as engineer engi-neer oh the Idaho division of the Oregon Ore-gon Short incto accept the position of manager and chief engineer of an Important Hue In the State Washington Washing-ton Who will succeed him Is not determined de-termined but J P Congdon lo at present pres-ent acting in the place The ofllce Is Io6ated at Pocatello and is an Important one as the company has In the past had i large amount of improvement to complete on the division culling for the latest and best methods of engineering and the future will sco an equal amount pf this class of work to say nothing of extensions which are In view I Mr Barlow II i a great favorite among the men on the engineering staff of the Short Line and his departure will be a matter of regret to all but especially to those of his division IIo la i a capable ca-pable and painstaking official and an engineer of long and varied experience He was prominently Identified 1 with the original location of the 1es Angeles line and It Is a compliment to his location that every road built on paper In the last ten jv ais hns used thu route designated desig-nated by his stakes to secure a loutc I from Utah to the coast He Is the engineer who made the trip alone through Death Valley about ten yearn ago nnd was engaged recently by the Short Line to guide the engineering engi-neering parties on the overland trip when the LOS Angeles road wai again brought to the front t ANOTHER LAKE TRESTLE 9 Coos Bay Line Will Enter This City Via South Part of tho Lake It In authoritatively stated from Oregon Ore-gon that the Great Central will follow the lead of the Southern Pacific and build a trestle and solid grade through the southern portion of the Great Salt lake to enter this city from the west It will cross the Southern Pacific somewhere some-where between Lucln and Fcnolon and take over the desert to a point near Strongs Knob and thence via the Wrathalls pass line to 11 point lower down on the lake shore from which It can build Its line acioss the lake com I ing out near Black Rock or Saltalr and thence to thin city To Improve Car Service Buffalo X Y Sept 20rhe railway rail-way transportation association which has for Its object the solution of prob hems affecting transportation In the mutual Interest of railroad > > companies has begun its summer session here A large number of the trunk lines of the United States hnd Canada arc represented I repre-sented There way much earnest discussion dis-cussion of per diem agreement respect InS car service which went Into effect on July 1st Prior to that time cars were charged for according to the num ber of miles covered The general discussion dis-cussion was decidedly In favor of the per diem plan which facilitates the rc turn of cars and prevents car famines G P Conrad of New York secretary of the association presided Steel Rails From Germany Oakland Cal Sept lBThe Southern Paclllc company Is preparing to re ceive 10000 tons of steel rails from Germany The rails are expected to arrive within the next few days The reason for the order being placed In Germany Is that the foundries of America are too busy to accommodate the enormous demand for material Big Car Shortage New York Sept 20An official of one of the leading trunk line railroads Is quoted by the Journal of Commerce as expressing the belief that In the near future the railroads of the coun try particularly those reaching the At lantic seaboard will experience one of the worst car shortages In their his tory due to the demand for an early movement of crops and the crush of general merchandise tralllc Should the coal miners strike be settler Foon the shortage probably will be greatly ag grava ted RIO GRANDE EARNINGS Net for the Year Ending June 30th Show an Increase Denver Sept 20Tire Denver Rib Grande Hallway company bus jssucd J i Its statement of earnings and expenses for the fiscal year ending Juno SQ 1002 The figures for the Hio Oandc Western West-ern are Included The total earnings were 1703CS2S an Increase of 677213 over the preceding year The total expense ex-pense 10231612 a dccreaoe of 16301 The net carnlhgs were S7052SG an Increase In-crease of 002512 t Rnilrcad Notes The N C 0 will be extended to Lakevlcw Ore r Eastern papers are printing stories of tho Utah cutoffs Grading Is beingrunhcd on the Belt line around Coos Bay Tho Great Centrals headquarters building and a fine hotel will be erected at once at Bangor Engineer Husbands son of the pioneer pio-neer IB In charge of the engine on the Leamington cutoff which In now nearing Toocle City Assistant General Traffic Manager S II Babcock of the Ulo Grande lines will return tomorrow from California accompanied by his family The Bangor Exchange is the now paper pa-per printed at the terminal of the Coon Bay road In Coos county Ore and It Is filled with news of the now project Some day The Promontory looking like the ghost of the old City of Cor lane afterwards the Garfield will steam up to the pavilion and give John Ora a shock r |