Show I DEMURRAGE BUREAU TALKS OF CHANGES After being In session lon In this city several sev soy eral days das the car demurrage bureau ad adjourn adjourned adjourned ad- ad journ d yesterday afternoon From rom th tho Information given gl out It was learn learned that no Increase was made In the demurrage charges although tho the cutting down of or tho the time for tho the unloading of or cars from forty forty- eight to twenty four hours was discussed at length No action was as taken Those present at the meeting Included R. R E E. Wells Veils general manager T. T 11 LI I Sloan assistant general freight agen agen agenor of or orthe the Salt Lake route A. A F F. Beaver cr F. F M. M I. I PlaIsted and George A. A Smith assistant assistant assist assist- I ant counsel all of ot tho the Ore Oregon Ore on Short Line and S. S V. V Derrah Ernest and E. E M. M Allison Jr of ot counsel for the Rio Grande all aU of ot that system RAILROAD NOTES Sunday Sunda the trie new Montana line of oC the Goz Northern running through the JuI Judith Ju Ju- Ju- Ju Gap basin from Armington to Great Northern Junction nine miles s east of ot Laurel on the Northern Pacific was waa opened for traffic The UC new new- newline line Une opens opens' up one o of th tilt the richest valleys In the northwest northwest north north- I we west t Is one of or the tho most Important ex extensions cx- cx x- x xI I tensions made recently by by the Great Northern It has been In operation for forso so some somo mo weeks tea foe freight service as far tar as i Judith Gap It is II miles long and al already already al- al ready has a number of ot growing towns along Its right of oC way S S U After January 1 the Milwaukee Milwaukee- will employ employ em em- plo ploy OO LOO 00 additional men at its Minneapolis shops It now furnishes work to 1100 men S S I IThe The Illinois Central and Southern Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- elite roads have announced d that they will Rill tJI spend and respectively respective respective- ly 11 in the near future for Cor more equipment S S SIt It is said raid that thc the E Erie Erlo lo has completed arrangements for or an entrance Into Pittsburg Pitts- Pitts burg over o the tracks of oC the Buffalo Rochester Rochester Rochester Roch Roch- ester S S S Ii II H. 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F agent for tho the Nickel l Plate Platt with headquarters at Omaha Oma Oma- ha was a visitor to Salt Lake CIt City yesterday yesterday yes yes- es i a afternoon RAILROAD INFORMATION Tho The Illinois Central has ordered order d Hart convertible cars from the Rodger Ballast Car company company- These Those will bo be built at the Detroit works of the American Car Carand Carand Carand and Foundry company compan according to Harriman Har- Har riman lines specifications Tho The steel gondola cars ordered from tho the Cambria Steel company compan as reported In the Railroad Railroad Rail Rail- road Age Gazette Gazett of ot October 16 will be I built bunt to the same standard specifications except that they will be equipped with heavy y Miner lIner draft gear No passenger cars have o as yet yot ct been ordered S S S The Louisville build OO 00 coal cars In its own shops S S The Tho United States supreme court has fixed January 4 as the date dato for hearing the argument In the commodities clause clauseS ca cases es against the anthracite coal carriers and has directed the consolidation Into one of ot the twelve cases ron tue purpose of or argument S S The Virginian Is asking bids on 1500 1600 ton fifty coal cars car on fifteen heavy y Mallet compound freight locomotives and antI three switchIng snitching locomotives S S S The Western Maryland Is asking prices on hopper bottom cars S S S When you board hoard a n street car and hand tho the conductor your fare what becomes of or orthe the nickel The official answer Is found In the first annual report of tho the board of or supervising engineers the city's stewards Hero Here Is where the nickel goes when goes when an honest conductor gets it Less Less' 11 mills surplus retained In treasury apparently Paid In wages to cents Paid for materials supplies etc 11 c cents Paid for taxes 01 cents I Interest on on value of or property 76 7 cents Profit paid to railways 24 34 cents Profit paid to city 41 41 cents Total cents Incident to the maintenance operation and management t of oC railways a s. s B By another average process tho the board shows the average Il expense of ot hauling each ellch passenger Including 5 6 p per r cent In Interest interest In- In terest on agreed valuation I of ot properties at 2575 cents average earnings per pcr passenger passenger passenger pas pas- carried cents making the average crage profit per passenger carried mills The city's t proportion of or profit J per r passenger carried i Is 2519 2619 mills while whit the tho company's compans proportion of or profit P pet peg I carried cl Is Ie 2061 mills Chicago Inter Ocean S S S Memphis Tenn The Tenn The re b revised d ordinance for building a a. union station to b be be- used by fU all the thO railroads railroad entering 1 Memphis has pawed passed the lower Jower board of the tho city council The station Is to bl be built In S South uth Memphis preliminary work for which has been commenced J S S S The Tho Montreal Engineering Enl company compan has ordered a a. number of ot box and flat cars carH from rom th the tho Magor Engineering works New cw York U S S The Missouri Pacific ha hap ha h given ghen en a II contract contract con con- tract to tho the American Car and foundry 1 company for tor repairing about freight arid And seventy five passenger cars cara S S S Pacific Southeastern Southeastern president tern President nt II it G. G Platt San Francisco Cal Is III quoted quote as aa assaying saying that as U soon goon AS AB the pend pending Ins Ins- have havn bt been en concluded for Cor a terminal terminal terminal ter ter- ter- ter minal site lilt In Tacoma Wash work will be ho started on this proposed line Tho The company was organized in March arch to build I from Tacoma rust east nb about ut 60 mites miles to 10 toI I Walla olla Walla I S U During the last fiscal cat year car new In In- 8 s of various kinds w r hll established on th the the- lines lins of oC tho the Missouri Pacific ThO They represent an Invested capital of oC and promise le the road carloads of freight annually S S 4 S The Th National l Car Line company compan Chicago Chi Chi- cago ordered In III August Sl September r t twenty t gallon tank tunk cars from Ironi rom the Bettendorf Axle company S S S Baltimore Md Tho Jd Tho Pennsylvania rail rall- roud toed It Is 18 said has hal plans plant to th the tho elt city authorities for building 1 a t largo large passenger station Tho The Panama railroad received bids until un un- til iii October R for t twelve live foot t gauge oil burning Mogul freight locomotives According to the El EI Pa P Po Paso o Herald dining cars car ar are aro to b br be run through this winter b tw en On St. St Louis and M I City Th The San Antonio Aransas Pass Pas Is askIng ask ask- ing lug prices on box and I nr stock tock cars F. F W. W Whitridge receiver PI of or the Third Avenue street railroad New w York City has sent a letter to the stockholders askIng ask ask- ing log them to assist him In making tho the thoro ro road d profitable pi Addressing s them as the thereal thereal thereal real owners of th lh the property h ho suggests that the they shall patronize the thc cars of or the company whenever the they can can and that tha t when on tho the cars they shall hall look Took out for the Inter Interests stR of th tho tha prop property rt even to the ext nt of ot spotting dishonest conduct conduct- ors orl |