Show I I I RAILROAD INFORMATION I Canadian Northern Track Northern Track laying ou on the Goose lako lake branch has bas been boen completed com coin I as far as Sask Sash sixty sitt miles nils from Saskatoon Grading has been b cn completed twenty mil miles s further and it is in isI I hoped to have hao steel laid o on this section I and an additional twenty miles graded before the ilie winter operations cease Train service will probably be operated d to Zealandia before the end of the th year vear According to reports from Winn Winnipeg Man IMan this tins Company recently placed in in operation the tho extension of its is Rossburn branch previously referred to as tho the Regina Brandou-Regina linc line from Rossburn I Inear near the western boundary of Maui law toba taba west st to R ina Sask S. rho line is eventually to be extended west to a point near tho the western boundary of Saskatchewan 0 0 C. C. C C C. Clinton Colorado Springs Springs-C. D of Fort Foit Smith Ark Arli principal promoter of this projected teJ line lino is is quoted quoted ed 3 as saying sayin that construction work worn is isto isto isto to be ho started this month The 1 first to beI be bo I built huilt is from Clinton Okla which is ison is ison on the St. St Louis San Francisco and tho the Kansas City Mexico Orient northwest to Butler about twenty bye o miles The ThC line Hue is projected northwest across tho the Panhandle or or of Texas and find New Mexico to a point in Colorado Ea Eagle gI e c Vail Valley Press cy-Press Press reports report s from Portland Or say that when hen twenty five milca miles of this new road ro-id are arc completed shipments j of ore nrc will m hc begin in to Parker p Cit City an and Sumpter It is said that Ba Baker er City sub subscribed to the capital stock An Au officer of the Grand Gran Trunk denies that the thc road is to install automatic block signals on its line lino from Montreal to Chicago The tele telegraph block system 8 3 tem tern is already in use me 4 It 0 II Tho The railroads Lako Lake Erie and New York announce reductions in grain rates eastbound to go 0 into effect December De Dc- cember cembor 1 The Tho reduction iu in in nearly every ev Cy cry ery case is 1 cent per pounds The Montreal Southern Counties has given iven n the United States Steel corpo corporation cor ear I po atlo I a contract for rails for the six sixteen ix- ix teen te n miles of road now under construe construe- tion I 4 0 An n ii officer of the Great Northern I which is building this line lino jointly with the Northern p Pacific is qu quoted 3 as aS saying say say- ing in iw that the extension 1 from rom Pasco Wash asb cast to Spokane miles ia ii is expected to be in operation b bv by the middle mid mid- dle die of February ll lUO 00 The Thc Grand Trunk railway has bas announced au au- tho the completion and regular operation op op- ration of the Hie St. St Clair Glair tunnel el een I Port Huron Mich aiR aud Sarnia Samia Ont aud and the event cent was celebrated by an inspection tion of the tho work by a large party part of cn engineers ineer and aud railroad officers on November No No- vember 1 12 N It 0 0 Commissioner Harlan has hag given n an informal opinion to a a. traffic c officer iu in Chicago o that the practice of switching trap cars free freo to and from plants having hain baying bay hav in ing private tracks is illegal Cars have boon been ship shipped in an and out free for concerns con con- cerns corns at Chicago Chica o that could load SU O pounds or 01 more moro of less lees than carload freight The goods havo then been transferred by hy tho the roads from tho the trap cars into the tho various cars lars that took I them to the their r various arious destinations destinations- Some Somo time timo ago 30 the Chicago lines hues announce announced announced an an- that they would ouId discontinue this service or impose a charge to cover cr tho extra service sen Commissioner Harlan liar Har- lan Ian an holds that an extra charge must bo be inserted d in in tariffs to cover the service ec I i and that if it continues to bo ho rendered to large shippers hippen the thc roads must t also 1150 I place cars on their team tracks for the I of small shippers or they y will be guilty of unfair discrimination Tho The large lar e nv 1 J order houses hou Cs C's in Chicago o ohavo havo have been ben the chief beneficiaries of the thc free service rendered 0 0 44 Dr Charles Siemens has just returned to En England land from front Japan where he hI has I made an inspection tion of the tho railroads for forthe forthe the Japanese o with a view I to their possible electrification cation V tI Of I Oregon Railroad Navigation The Thc The EI Elgin in extension of this line required d about thirty miles of canyon and thir thir- three ty-three miles of valley work work- Tho The maximum max max- mum ill grade is 1 per cent and maximum curves UT arc are 15 dt degrees Tho The route extends ex cx- tends from El Elgin n Or miles to Palmer Junction miles to Minam I miles to Wallowa S miles to Lostine 10 miles to Enterprise and 55 miles to ro seven Fifty miles I of track is now DOW I la laid laiti v Tho The railroad rail rand commission of Oregon on has bas completed au an investigation of oi the ori original inal cost rost and cost of reproduction of the lines of the tho Oregon Ore on Railroad L aYi 1 Navigation company compan and of tho the Carvallis Carvallis Car Car- vallis Eastern rom From the tho report of 01 the Oregon Oro on Railroad Navigation i company com coinS pany to tho the commission it appeared that tho the ol original inal cost of ot construction and equipment an and aud of betterments an and a additions ad ad- on the lines in Oregon on excluding jug ing tho the Columbia Southern the Colon Colom Colombia bia bin River Oregon Ore on Central and tho the Umatilla Central c was a 33 The 1 I estimate estima to of the tho commissioner s en engineer of the cost of reproducing the tho lines and Ind equipment is said to be but butthi this thi it is stated does not include the tho right of oi wa way and gro cost costing D which sum increases the total total to to- tal estimated expense o of reproduction to Tho The testimony of Vallis Val Wai- the for Us lis Nash who disbursed money monc construction of the Corvallis CoI Eastern East Eastern East cm ern was Tas that he be had bad disbursed 1250 but this included spent to hold a right richt of way in county county county coun coun- ty and other sums expended on the Willamette Wil lamette lamotte river and for steamboats and ocean n going tugs at Yaquina bay b W. W The commissions commission's ea engineer therefore estimates estimates esti esti- mates mate tho the ca cast t of or reproduction of thi this road rand with equipment at The total mileage e of ot the thc Oregon Railroad I. I Navigation 1 company covered co is H making the tho amount amoun company spent upon it 03 63 GJ- lj per nor r mile The length of the Cor Cor- ralli i I- I Eastern is is 14 miles making makin an average ri a O estimated valuation for it of o 01 per vcr mile |