| Show HAS AS BEEN A GREAT RAILROAD YEAR What Shat the Oregon Short Line and Rio Grande Western Have Business and Several ranches Branches Com Coin Showing of the Utah Pacific t Adhering closel to the policy that has hils fr liten characteristic ot of It more IO o since the the Or Oregon con Short management lu to make It a utah road lib have all boon been t cared carel for As a result or of this pol J th t most cordial relations tte n shippers and ranI road The Short Line this year has hns ox ex d much money In the betterment I It ci Its and while there thore has been bien In Utah n a very cr Import It nt baa just been boen t 1 J whore n a branch was built Idaho I to St Anthony some t cr 37 miles This branch Is IsIt It 18 carefully built u lit liS 00 tIme the main line ld d lIs it cost half a million tI The Tho extension I is I a very tam I mw no as It brings Fremont Fromont coun I ty IT hI rl best a agricultural valley In time the i bole boIl Slate It f In touch with the tho rid and the worlds marketa to ii 2 I In another sense too It For reo some me years n a proportion of oC time the to Pork has hos been via St and this line the Just that t nearer the tho It at 1111 1 ft outfitting point Et It Is conjectured b by nary I that tho branch Is th tho Initial step L rs eliding a line straight on to tark arlo nd delivering passengers nt at a 1 rate fUI fl branch line as It is III will te Le 81 Anthony nearly all or of this 1 The Ille ot of time the Short Line now lm miles divided as fat fol MI aho lon division to T 0 I Lines freIght business In f 11 ila Ir r large and nt at the tho close bat It was not thought the for fu the next twelve the I rl allt it But Dut It has Imas Not only has tit trAm th year kept up but It has The rJ bv b about 1 16 ver Iler cent fa service shows market Pro ro this year ear The Portland ia al n nw equals In speed and equip lit at or of time the trunk lines JIb ring with time the full end tb ey f Pullmans complete completo I ry nn cars TIle i records Ire it 11 It a hay In wase In travel time the I test es rr 10 b I tuning from Cat ear arh t end nd over 10 passengerS e b n to the tho Oregon Hall nd daily The double It I I T a t Ie IIo daily to Butte nutte was put on onIt It for Cor the Yellow Yellowstone tone but Ut It has proved so sa popular d that It has been made permanent Time travel to Idaho this year oar has been beena n a feature hundreds ot of settlers coining from the eastern eastorn States to secure land IlInd landin in time tho fertile valleys ulles there thore The general ot of the Short Line now art are S II 11 president W WH II H vice Ice vrE president and gen gon genen en oral man et W V n 1 Cornish Jr vice II H O 0 Nichols general coun counsel l Alex comptroller and secretary tary V S Crosb Crosby treasurer Parley Farley L Williams general attorney S W Eccles general genera manager E E Calvin general super superIntendent superIntendent P W HIlls auditor J JVan Van Yan Kuran local treasurer D E Bur Dur Durler toy ler general passenger cr agent I O 0 general agent S SH II H chief SUr surgeon lOn J P F Dunn superintendent ot or motive pow power or er G 0 L I HIckey car accountant G 0 GL L Alley general agent J JB B 13 1 Evans nR tax agent E J 3 Fisher gen general general eral claim n agent J M lien Bennett nett super superintendent ot of bridges and buildings P E c tanson superIntendent idaho division I Malloy superintendent Montana JH 1 Young super BUller Utah division iii A rear lear ot of Great end and Stead Utah ns as eloes every other section ot of the earths domain owes oes its lis birth ot of pr Sl s and to the tho railroads that traverse It The rho home roads have hao been liberal and pro the they encouraged and fostered eer every enterprise ot public value ulue until now non this new rich State has hns Its diversified resources In the trend that to thorough devel deel development The Tho success hat will 11 surely follow tollow belongs to those whose aid Is Identified with the tho ot of time tho State The Grande railway n a homo home has hns been closely allied wIth lIh the growth and develop development development ment of Utah since Mn May when the tho rail connecting the tho I East st with the Vest through time the central portion or of the tho State was laId The San find and Seler branch was completed to Manti im II December to Fauna In Jul July of oC the following year to on Juno let mG to nap n a tew months later Inter and n a extension to And Is In Isnow now In actual courso of oC construction Time ThO branch of this road rond was finished In December IS 1831 I Tile The total of oC the file lUo rande Grandc Western railway a verY ry large ng fig It II occupIes nn an important place In time tho transcontInental system stem ot of to today day Its branches to Tintic Park CIt City etc thread the of t tha State bringinG the Snit Salt Lake market In close touch with the producer Earl Early In the year ear just cloRette the Hlo 1110 Grando railway clearly clearl demon demonstrated demonstrated Its policy to develop the State It had shortly before acquired time the prop property crt erty or of the Utah Central railway u a narrow gauge line In between laIk City and Salt Lake and began Its extension through the beautIful Prove canyon to Heber and Charleston This branch miles In length was completed on October let 1st Simul Simultaneous the road rond was ns at work vork on Its line from Crom MoUnds a point on the main mainline line miles east of oC Salt Lithe City to the coal beds bedA nt at Sunnyside This brando branch was completed on December let 1st and covers a distance ot of I 7 miles ot of these new lines are important features In time the development of time tho State The lieber Heber branch brings Into the prolific alles of at the Provo Strawberry amid Duchesne rl nv ore ers while time the branch opens to th the western market a vast tonnage of coal and cole coke Besides these lines the Rio Itlo Grunde Western raIlway during the year ex cx n a large sum In taking out the grades and curves east enst of In Spanish Fork canyon canon and other places along time the main line It has added greatly during the year ear to Its power and passenger equip equipment mont ment made necessary b by a constant growing local and through traffic It has hns also established n a dining car service adding cars of oC that character to the equipment on all throuGh passenger trains In other words the he road during time tho year ear has kept abreast with the tha times so that tn In perfection ot of service roadbed etc It is the equal ot of an any line In time the country countr Durin the year ear all branches ot of rail railroad road rond showed n a very et healthy In Increase crease ns as compared with time the year ISS freights also pan travel have hac largely largel Increased thus demonstrating the powerful Place that Salt Lake City and the RIo Grande Granda Western railway occupies In the tho trans transcontInental continental situation today Local traffic within the State imas har grown to Important figures and during th time sum summer mer months month II almost doubled itself In time tho passenger brando branch ot of the service It follows that with the prosper prosperIty lIy Ity of the railroads nil all commercIal pur pursuits suits have bene benefited toa to a like degree The railroad Is the first to feel teel the ef cC or of a stimulus In trade IUS as also n a In business Time The ot of the Utah Cen Central Ira line to City Is definitely as 08 assured Work has already been corn com commenced with that end In view It Is Ii ex cx expected that broad gauge cars will wili bo be operated over oer the line b by June let 1st An extension or of the and Sevier branch to IS also ns as assured but just how far that line will willbo bo be carried b beyond rond that point durIng 1 00 Is yet ret undetermined Already the good people or of and vicinity are arc feeling the benefits apparently as assured assured or of railroad transportation ties The count country has hns extensive Iron beds besides mineral minerai resources and from a 11 and agricultural standpoint It is III unsurpassed by any other district In the State The extensIon ot of the tho branch from Heber to lark ell City during the tho coming year cat is III not among mon the improbabilities abilities Such a line would offer to the a rail tour by wa way ot of Provo canyon tn in one direction and Parleys canyon eanon In the other that would Put In time the shade ll any circle or loop trip In There are ru rumors morn mors or of surveys b by the thc Rl Rio Grande Western railway In various arlous other local localities and altogether the situation for tor 1900 In the matter ot of railroad exton exten slon sion so far as time the Rio Grando railway Is concerned Is Indeed very ery bright |
