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Show I Hi Railroad Notes. "23" for Mauretania. B' Birthday greetings to Mr. Bancroft- O. K. Pratt leaves for Boise Friday on a short business trip. .Chief Engineer T. .1. Wyche of the Western Pacific was in the city Tliurs-B' Tliurs-B' day on business. Superintendent R. M. Ogilvie and Frrlght Agent L. R, Morley from Elko were In the city Thursday on Western Bfl Pacific business. General Passenger Agent Miller of the Bfl Milwaukee has a splendid article in Los- 11- He's Weekly on the new Pugct Sound hi bvgteni. i'l ' The etirrent number of the Railway !' and Engineering Review has a highly !i Interesting article on the Rhaetian rall- i K wav of Switzerland. It Is probably, the J most notable piece of construction of the IS age. one of the features being tunnels 'Jm curved into the solid mountain and out J ncraln to secure crade. There arc five ijj clrculnr tunnels. In one place threo tun- nel portals can be seen together. t'3ov ' J' H. Hnmung. cenerHl agent of the ! U Denver Rio Grande at Manti. who was I, AM in the city for a few days this week, HH stares that traffic on the two Sanpete "M vallev branches was never, so great. On i yH the Sanpete Valley road about 40 cars i ! of beets will be harvested Jhls year. (1 The Utah valley Is also showing up Jl splendidly this harvest, and Is producing ',p a vast tonnage fof the railroads, il l .7. Y. Callahan of the Nickel Plate was Jjf here on Thursday. f Now. that the Denver. Laramie & ;l Northwestern has settled Its difficulties. the early completion of the line into 1 1 Wyoming. fa looked for. i1 An electric sensation Is being framed : Li UP-' UP-' J 'A handsomely fitted-up office for the 5 Eccles lino will be opened In Brigham. t' i There Is some talk of through electric j' cars from Salt Lake to Brigham as noon as the new line gets down to real busl-i busl-i nes's. j Sonic of the finest and most modern machinery procurable has ben ordered i for the new shops of the Utah Light. The famous twenty-mule teams of Inyo J, county arc now out of a job, J H The point where the last fcpike was : 1 driven in the. new linp through Inyo I ( county Is at the foot of, ML Whitney, the highest peak In the United States. The i same county contains the lowest valley. I Death. But the county Is going to forge ahead now that It has rnilrond facilities, ' for besides the borax it has livestock, mines, agriculture and fruit. -i -Another lively session was held at the- f :U Gould station between midnight and dawn this morning, when five sections of f No. S came in bearing close to 1200 pas- fccngurs bound for the Pacific coast. Few i stopped over In this city. This makes a I totfjl of over 5000 passing through on J ! this one road in the latt three days, but r . they- did not stop off here. |