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Show Railroad Notes. The Hallway Record compliments The Tribune by publishing without Vhange or without credit, articles original with" this paper. The Issue of April '2?, is well filled with ITiah mows, The Record Is a new sheet, published at Chicago. A. U. I.ovctt of the Rock Island was a halt Lake visitor Tuesday.- Sam Spry of Ihe Rock Island offices will leave for Switzerland on Thursday, to be away three years. He is well liked among tho younger railroad clerks and will be missed from the circle. Picsidenl Bamberger has made a clever clev-er move in holding the fare in Lagoon nt the old price of no cents, for If assures as-sures the trains of the companv being operated without the presence of the genuine yap. thereby creating a high class of travel to the icsort which. In the long run. Is bound to pay. . There are a grea". many other resorts where the fare Is all the way from 10 to 1'5 cents, so Lagoon, by charging more. Is not depriving any person from an outing. out-ing. Two new trailers are coming- for the Emigration Canyon Hue. Ninety thousand acres of land in Elaine. Bingham and Fremont counties will bo irrigated by the Big Lost river project, which Is to open up Its lands on Alay 1. according lo G. F. Sprague. general manager of the companv. who Is In Salt Lake for a few clays. The. new reservoir of the companv' located near Alaclcay. will be completed on Ihe date given, and this reservoir contains sufficient acre feet of moisture to Irrigate Irri-gate 1000 acres of land. The Oregon Short Line will build a branch from Cerro Gordo to AlcColIum. giving the new lands ample railroad facilities. Two carloads of Raymond and Whit-comb Whit-comb tourists will arrive Wednesday over the. Rio Grande from the west, and leave Thursday. , Thri Schiller Special to Ogden. over tho Rio Grande. Thursday night, for the big fight, will be a hummer. It will leave here at 7 p. m. The court of appeals nt Albanv, N. Y.. has declared the eight-hour law constitutional. con-stitutional. Gustavo Tletgen. chairman of the Hamburg -American line, died Tuesday In Hamburg. He Is'sjild to have been the most successful steamship passenger developer de-veloper In the world. Owing to the favorable laws of Utah, why would it not be a good Idea for all the commercial bodies of Salt Lake lo formally Invite the Southern Pacific of Kentucky to remove Its corporate headquarters head-quarters here, the natural place for It? lis own officials have wlnted that they will move, so here is a good chance for Sail Lake to gel another headquarters. headquar-ters. Millionaire A. D. Parker is said to have decided to retlrn from railroading. Mo Is vice president of the Colorado Southern. When detailing the large equipment order or-der of the O. S. .., It was said that If all (lie engines and cars were placed on a. track thv would reach from ''here, lo Ogden." The Railway Record In Chicago Chi-cago runs the story and stretches out tho train from Chicago to Ogden. for It repeals re-peals the word "here." 7!. T'J. Gosling, local representative of the Kanawha Dispatch, gave, his visiting visit-ing officials n very good Idea of Salt .Lake. The Emigration Canyon road has ordered or-dered a dozen large gondola cars to be used in the rock traffic from tho big quarries. The grading on the Biirlcy-Oakley branch of the Oregon Short L.lne has boon completed, nnd the work of laying rails Is progressing as rapidly as the manufacturers can supply the steel. Weather conditions thir. spring hnvn fa-voreij fa-voreij i lie contractors, so that they were able lo make much better lime than was at first thought possible. fV |