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Show SHORT LINE WILL TAP NEW GROUND Planning to Extend Its St. Anthony Branch Toward the Teton Basin. IT 1b highly probable that the Oregon Short Line In following out its policy of developing tributary territory, ter-ritory, will this year add quite an Important extension to Its St. Anthony branch. Chief Engineer William Ash-ton Ash-ton has placed In the field a party under un-der Locating Engineer C. Strodley. with orders to complete the preliminary surveys sur-veys for this extension. From St. Anthony to Marysvale lt will be about eighteen miles by this route, but later on the line will work its way gradually Into the Teton basin. The survey will run northeast from St. Anthony, but will make a turn and run eouthcast to secure an entrance Into the basin. The whole region is destined des-tined to bo one of the most populous agricultural sections of Idaho and is already al-ready well settled, many former Utah citizens having made their homes there. The surveys will be completed at an early day, when the matter will be taken tak-en under advisement by the management manage-ment of the road, when it will be determined de-termined whether or not the line will be built. The fact that tho initial surveys have been ordered will be good news not only to the people of the thriving town of St. Anthony, but to all those living along the route to the heart of Teton basin. Railroad Notes. General Agent Neslen of the Burlington Burling-ton yesterday announced the following changes and promotions on his line: W. W. Johnson, assistant general freight agent at Omaha; H. L. Lewis, district freight agent nt Beatrice; H. B. Segur, general agent at Atchison; F. W. KHpple, gencrnl agent at Billings; Bil-lings; E. V. Kost, traveling freight ugent and passenger agent at Lincoln. The Burlington will run from Salt Lake on May 30 a special sleeping car through to St. Louis. It will be for teachers who wish to take in the exposition. expo-sition. S. H, Stinson, formerly of the Second South street crowd, now agent at Chicago Chi-cago for the Lackawanna, is back in the city temporarily looking after Nickel Nick-el Plate consignments. George Skllris came up from the South yesterday and reports work going go-ing on briskly at Mack station, where the line of the Uintah railway leaves the Rio Grande. Track to the extent of close to four miles has bexm laid and the grading Is being rapidly completed. It will be over sixty miles to the as-phaltum as-phaltum fields of Utah, and the line will possibly be pushed through this season. C. O. Baxter is general mnn-ager mnn-ager and E. A Grove, formerly of this city, Is superintendent. The Oregon Short Line has completed com-pleted the sidings for the new Black-foot Black-foot sugar factory. The Rock Island has completed Its now line from Kansas City to St. Louis and lt will be opened June 5, when through tralnB will run from Colorado to the exposition city. A through car will be run from Salt Lake. Traveling Freight Agent Robert Craig of the Short Line, who has been seriously ill, was shaking hands with old friends at the office yesterday. Nearly all the old-timers remember A. N. Graham, who for years made this territory for the Alton. His friends will be glad to hear that he has Just been appointed contracting agent at New York for the Northern Pacific. Traffic Manager Ecclcs of the American Ameri-can smelter is still at his ranch In Idaho. Ida-ho. The offices of General Superintendent Buckingham of the Short Line were changed yesterday whllo he is away. He will have the room formerly occupied occu-pied by Superintendent of Telegraph Frobes, whllo that official, with Chief Clerk Anderson and clerks, will have tho larger room formerly occupied by Mr. Buckingham. Something new and novel is the composite com-posite telephone placed In the office of Mr. Buckingham of the Short Line. This is a private emergency line and Is used on the telegraph wires. The Short Lino has its first excursion north on June 11. The San Pedro has the Social club and Hold's band at Provo on the 2Cth, and the Cleaveland baseball club to Eureka on the 29th. Construction work has been started on the extension of the San Pedro railroad rail-road from Frisco to Newhouse, a dis tance Ol a irucuon over iiuic inueu. it is said that the Utah Construction company will sublet the grading in one-mlle one-mlle sections, in order to expedite the work as much us possible. Mr. New-houso New-houso has also begun work on tho extensive ex-tensive improvements contemplated at his mining camp. Joseph Jones, head of the police department de-partment of the Oregon Short Line, with Jurisdiction over the territory between be-tween Salt Lake, Butte and Huntington, Hunting-ton, has had his territory Increased by the addition of the Union Pacific to Green River, Including tho Park City branch. John P. Congdon has been made division engineer for Idaho and R. B. Kctchum of Salt Lake city division di-vision engineer for Montana. Work has commenced on the New-house New-house spur from the San Pedro line and the work Is to be completed In sixty days. Chief Engineer Hawgood of tho San PedrO started from Los Angeles yesterday yes-terday to mako the overland trip to Callente. Xj. S. Chandler of the San Pedro staff has gone to Los Angeles to get married. mar-ried. The Denver & Rio Grande will make some changes in the local time card effective ef-fective June 5. The Oregon Short Line will probably put on Its usual double train service between be-tween this city and Butte June 1. A. P. Masscy, traveling passenger agent of the BoBton & Maine, is In the city. ABBlslant Freight Traffic Manager Cower and Assistant General Freight Agent Kimball of the Rock Island have returned East. There are fifty-five railroad men soliciting so-liciting wool In this territory, a condition condi-tion that probably has no equal anywhere any-where In the country. |
