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Show Railroad Notes. J. H. Dewey, traveling freight agent for the Denver & Rio Grande, returned to town yesterday from the South. ' L." R. Ford, vice-president and general manager of tho Denver & Southwestern, formerly the Midland Terminal rallwny, haa resigned, aftor eleven years service with the company Tho Burlington Is going to pnbllsh In book form tho report on tho sulphur fields of Wyoming. This was made by John Wellington Finch, State geologist of Colorado, Colo-rado, who was employed by tho company for that purpose. The building of tho Uintah railway by tho St. Louis Gllsonlte company will bo somowhot of a blessing In disguise to tho Inhabitants of Price at first. It will take away JM,000 In wagon freights alone, which has heretofore been paid to tetun-stors. tetun-stors. Tho proportions reached by tho frult-ralslng frult-ralslng industry In tho Rocky Mountain region last year wore such aa to cause tho railroads to order new cars. Tha Denver & Rio Grande recently put Into 3ervico COO now freight cars on Its narrow gaugo division, divi-sion, and tho Burlington has pkicexl an order or-der for 400 rofrlgerator cars. Latest reports from the1 Denver, Northwestern North-western & Pacific say that tho company Is to build tho largest and most complete shops In the West. Not only will all tho repairs of the- road be mudo In thcc shops, but It Is Intended when tho rood la In operation to construct all tho rolling stock, Mr. Moffat, It Is statwl on good authority, has already securied options on site for those machine shops. A peculiar strlk6 occurred last evening on ono of tho excursion trains carrying Methodist delegates to Los Angeles. Tho train stopped for several hours at Santa Fe, N. Mr The two cooks and two dishwashers dish-washers went on a strike, complaining that they had to work too hard and that tho tips were not liberal. Thoy rofuscd to preparo supper or to let any ono olso Into tho kitchen of thu dining car. Arming themselves with knives, the strikers resisted re-sisted thJ train crew, and tho local police force had to bo culled. 'They succeeded in putting tho strikers off tho train. The latter relented when thoy saw the. train wus about to pull out without them. Thoy apologizes and went back to work. Arrangements Ar-rangements had been inado to supplant them with new hands at Albuquerque. |