Show I RAILROAD NEWS PESSIMISTIC of C r 51 St SI P 1 Says hess nes Hec lon May be Now New York Feb Al Albert Albert bert J ot of the tho Chicago Mu SL Paul Is authority lot lor the that business L Li notably slower In too the west than It was n a month ago Here Is President ment mentI I 1 hAve lust just learned that the vest vestis Is cancelling orders Merchants wh have tight alon along been n buying In largo large quantities are am slowing up on their commitments anti those who have or 01 tiered shipments of manufactured goods for delivery during the tho spring are countermanding them A bust bUHI bustness ness recession may be on the way and It ma may not hot but certainly no favor favorable favorable able construction can be placed upon the tho tact of cancelled orders SEPARATION IS COMPLETE Partition of Coal Properties Marks Emmit 11 of Union I Chicago F Feb ot of th I Rock lma ben been mado by the tho partition o of time tho wC west t coal propertIes which wen vera Jointly owned by these companies Of Oft t fidel announcement ot of such separation h has just been made and It Is said that the consolidated IndIana coal with headquarters here has taken own over I the sale lIale ot of Its own output which pro was handled b by the Brazil Block Cool Coal company compan 1 The Consolidated Indiana company Is owned directly tI by the flock Roel Island railroad and It its divorcement from the tho Brazil DI Block k com pan lit Is In Inthe the tho recent separatIon of oC the Chicago Eastern Illinois and amid St Sl LouIs Sm San Francisco road from the tho Rock Island The Tho coal properties represented b by the hl Frisco and e eastern Illinois now ao under the direction or of Alln Hawley who has b become interested In time the it D DF F Yoakum properties 11 W OniG nOn Wyo Vo Feb ore ers or of the Denver and North Northwestern western Railroad company compan nt at a meet t Ing InA yesterday ratified the tho transfer of nil all property to Denver Laramie t Railroad company anti and increase of oC capital train from lilt to of which ar aI aIto arI I to b be I In bonds betide for time the comm cun or of iO s or of road mad fhe new it the extension of time the to 10 Seattle SPlICE SPIKE AND J T 1 C alIc i ot of time the D nel tIle Grande is IR out on eu time the I ranch branch today ou eu ouan euan an trip U II M f late lato L chief engineer r or of the tho Western Pacific Is In the city from San Francisco Whoa Whon the tho engineering department the timo road over to the department n a banquet was Willi given to tc Virgil C Bogue chief engineer b the tho city of San Francisco Mr Begat BOgUe I accorded it large mood meed ot of credit to hum his assIstant who had been engaged with for or Yeats rena In supervising time the build buildIng buIlding Ing ot of time tho Western Mr Mc hIs nl assIstant Mr Ir Z was waA formerly connect connected od ed wIth the Suit Stilt Lake Route amid anel all as assisted Aisted In the tho building of th e 0 line lino through the Meadow Valley Valle Wash Vash He HeIs HeIs Is here on II a pleasure trip amid Is shak lug Ing hands handA today with old friends In Inthis inthis this city H B W Walker alker has gone Fone to San anti Los Angeles on emm a 11 cacti lion tiomi trip J H Edgerly Is In town from his county copper properties Ho He immIngs samples assa 23 2340 0 In gold Id and nOlI silver and per umer cent copper which puts him In ery good humor Mr Edgerly EdGerl says extensive imprOve monts will be made mado there this Chiet F E 11 Murray of the tho burrou ot of animal has ha returned from tons an ami official trip to Green River where he found the tho flocks free from lip and to Ie disease and time the cattle free from tuber tuberculosis t |