Show RAILROAD NOTES no Joy formerly foreman of the thc local ocal shops shop of the Rio Grande Orande Western has hafl las been heen appointed assistant Js master me nil Harr Harry Snyder has has' been rna made e foreman to succeed e Mr fr lIo Hogue uc T J. J F. F tra Harvey Marver traveling passenger I agent for the Hip Rock Kock Island went to Provo this mornin morning on business s i Both Roth the thc Rio Grande Western and the tho Salt Lake route brought a lH large e num ber her of Odd Fellows from front tho time south this morning to attend tho the twenty eighth annual session of the grand lodge od c meet meet- in in- in It Jt is reported that th the Southern Pacific Pa Pa- will wm lease leac or purchase tIme the Tonopah Goldfield railroad t d Tropical and tropical sub South Amer lea ica has hal miles of S railway The Tue Colorado Southern i is asking prices on narrow gauge gondola and box cars tons tOll capa capacity In ra tho the year nar 1006 the entire number of employees including the thc apprentices and women women enga engaged ed in the service of the railroads of LYen any was S 0 The Thc e Denver pr Rio Grande Orande and n Colorado Cob Colo rado Midland will build a nei new station tation and enlarge tho yards at Grand tion Col 0 Thu Tho Spokane Portland Seattle railway which prior to January 31 n. n 1008 was was wac known as the time Portland Seattle from front Pascoe Wash ash to Van Vau couver er Wash was opened for business on March larch 16 S S The Colorado Texas Mexico reports reports re re- re ports financial arrall arrangements arc nrc completed corn com for this road from Okla Okia to Abilene Tex Tx 60 milo miles and construction on out tho lino line from Hollis Tex cx to AltuR Aittia Okla Olda will b begin gin at once It Jt is eXI expected to have o this portion por per tiou tion or the tIme road completed complete within twelve c months fI The Rock Island has a new neat folder foMer descriptive descriptive- of Denver Den aTm and ancI Colerado Colorado Colo Cole rado for I convention use 1150 this comin coming summer It tells of oC places of interest in inthe inthe tb the entire state not limiting itself to toan an any one particular section an and also contains con con- talUs a map mat of Denver ns its well as g a list of the thc hotels hotel amid rooming houses with rates I Th The Thc longest t railway tangent nt in the world is said to be he on the of the thc Buenos Buonoc Ayres AyreR Pacific railway Y in the Argentine republic ilio length of If this is 2051 05 miles and it is situated situate on tho the main line between miles nud and 3 from Buenos B enoa Ayres Ares The Time straight stretch of track was formerly broken en b by reverse curves curve's forming a a detour around Lake Soria oria the thu longer portion wab then 1 17 j miles cubes long and was oven then the worlds world's 8 recon record The Thc Jako bain has hav in jug ing lip how hower waver er partially dried up ui tho coni nuy has hSUi eliminated the curves and aull the tho cut opened to service ice on Oc Oe Oc- Oc tober 15 1907 En Engineering Sews News The Canal nc Record in its i issue suc for February 2 26 1908 g gives geR eR the following data cot concerning cernin railway on the I isthmus of Panama Tho total i ia is about 14 miles divided equally b between tw en the isthmian canal commission and th the Panama Railroad com company pan The Tho th of the tIme main tunic line of the thc Panama railroad from Colon to Panama is 45 miles mUes an and of tho the La Boca branch La Boca Junc Iune tion to L La t BoeR Boca 25 miJ mU-e mU There are arc also two section sections of second track on tho main main line one from Gatun to Culebra and one from Pedro Miguel cl to La Boca I J Junction U net IOn aro arl respectively i v I and oO 56 nulls null's in in length th rind and make u n double track railroad fur for about three three- fourths fourth of th the across the tho isthmus At t lii Atlantic terminal of tiE the time road roan the Colon yard rel I has hus it 71 miles of lf I track rack and the Crisi ohal mind and Mount Hope yards u miles At th Pacific Pl terminal t tin tin- lit Panama vi vard IId rd has S miles milc and anil the La BOla Boi-a 0 G mills miles and there arc are loJ mi miles amiles of sidings s at I various stations ions in tIn tho zone zone making a total of ot 1457 1 rn Im a there arc 43 miles of permanent and I 74 miles I of or temporary track a total of i miles of c connection with ith the tho new location loca loea tion of the road road Titus This gives tins tho the Panama Pana Pauta- ma muta railroad a a total Otal of about 15 miles The tracks operated bv In till thu isthmian canal anal t- t commission arc largely Ini-goly tI in the Cu Cu- I ehm cut and anil th time the dumps c connected therewith the Culebra niebra division ision tin jn ba having 1 miles of or the tho amount by ly th the commission Of these e 13 miles iu iii I the Cule division about miles al are c in the time cut 4 41 are H in iii the time Las Casl Cas Cas- l I culp cades White h it U House yard a 72 2 i in in n th thin tho Pedro Pc Pe dro Miguel yarl yarl an and l there thele ar arc arr 16 III miles in tIme the dumps at Coro Corozal Coro- Coro zal and La Boca Boe For Foi the excavation of I the locks anti ami Janis Jams and s at t Gatun there lire about miles mieR of track rho Tho Chagros division has about 7 miles there are arc about 2 miles at atlin Mindi lin Ii an and the samo satan amount at La Boca Born This makes makeR a a. total of about 15 mills miles controlled by liv Inthe the isthmian canal commission coot com mission and and anda a grand antl total on the isthmus cults mus o of miles mile or enough enouch to make a six track railway from front Panama to Colon Co lon Ions S S S St Stopover r opo privileges of th thirty irh days in days s in Kansas Cit City on out eastbound tourist tickets tick tick- etc ets i have b been granted 1 by hy tho cst Western rn c-rn Passenger Thus This places Kansas Cit City on out the thc sawo same footing as s Su St Louis S It is stat stated d b bv b railroad officials ial that mule idle cars HS decreased or about one one- seventh in iii March a as compared with March of 1007 The Tho Mississippi Ii ssi valley aBc i is Is belter r oft off than the Atlantic coast and railroad rauhi-oad ht traffic is increasing considerably Indications Ruts mime aio that their will be improvement next mouth I S S S i States adjacent to an and including Co Colo Colorado o o. o rado nuo have miles of live Ii railroad projects pall planned etl for 1008 1908 and 1000 Territory dominated dominated-by by Denver cr laid haiti and had liati under construction during the past paRt year inure I miles mile of railroad than any other section of the thc country with tho exception ur of the Pacific coast states slates Thir tracks track's under Cl construction h by tho the section tion including ing K Kansas as Missouri Oklahoma Now New Mexico xico Texas lexas amid 31 Arkansas was 2100 2190 while whilo that timit of th the Pacific coast was 13 1 miles 0 S SA A A. A T Tj J n Davidson t irl on president of the Frisco Prisco co who i is ma in the city after a trip through ought the the- southwest said in an interview inter inter- view mew that Olat he lie lund had 1113 never ne'-ei- seen the conn conn- try v through which ho traveled cled h hotter better He lie found the tho farmers optimistic an and preparing ing nJ h ilk I luau many c cases el to plant a larger ir acreage than tuna a year n ago He Iii reported the lie condition of winter wheat excellent in mu the section he lie I visited There lucre hail had hurl Jl I been heen an improvement in the volume olum of i traffic to the railroads in the thc last i sixty davs ila-i. amid lIno tho Elm improvement ho he thought would continue S II S Trunk IJ Line I.-c I. n ro roads FI have havo re rc- rc their exec excess ha baggage ag rates in iu Xa- Xa Hit pr of immigrants front from 6 62 3 3 to 15 per pcr percent percent I fa-I cent of the immigrant passenger rate They have havo asked their connections to do 10 thud tho same au and aud Western Passenger asso lines have e con consented Thc The hater lat hat t tel ter er arc nm-c supposed to govern the hue action of or orall all th the thc roads represented in the We Western West West- t. t ern em Immigrant nt bureau and amid this would t take ake all the roads in thc the Transcontinental Ti t tal al Passenger association but hut to leave no room oom for question later the time commissioner com com- missioner of the thc Trunk frunk Line Lino a ocia- ocia tiou asked the tho chairman of the Transcontinental Trans continental association to submit subunit thc the question to a 1 vote otc of his roads |