Show bymum SALT LAKE CITY sept editor deseret mews meus having business a few days ago at the utah northern R R junction and having learned from a northe tn that the U N bad late ly received an addition to its rolling stock of two hand carsi cars carh and would in the winter run the mall maii on snow shoes I 1 thought that I 1 would inspect the line and rolling stock of our little road and und give you the result by the way I 1 found that our northern folks folka were so perverse per verbe veree as to prefer having the mall mail run on snow shoes to having it run on chinky barrels as they thought that they might oneo onea in a u while leget get a mail mall tb through rough which was waa rarely the case last winter the trains have been for some time back running as far as Ham hamptons Hamp iona toua tho crossing of bear river riven for the them north and where connection is made with a daily stage for logan the distance being about t twenty wen ty four m miles iles lies making the round trip twice a day and forming connection with the 0 P trains below brigham city and thence to the TJ C each way so that parties from this city can now leave by the 5 am train go to hamptons Ham have two hours there and return here by the 7 80 pm train of the same day the track is pretty smooth I 1 for a road of its age and is well ballasted ballested bal lasted to the station at Hamp hamptons Ham touya toula beyond which the track is laid for about one mile stopping at cottonwood hollow where will be a fili 1111 about eighty two feet deep containing about yards of bf now more than half done and a large force is at present employed As soon suon as this is over the track ein eid be continued to cache without interruption ter as the tiie grade is made and there is plenty of iron on hand band the traffic Is increasing as the people begin to find the advantage of having a railroad close to their doors and there is 13 quite an amount of wheat being shipped about three or four car loads 15 to 20 tons with each train to the junction for st louis of course there is an objection to shipping the raw material lifie wheat as political economists would tell us that it would pay us better to convert it into flour still better to 10 make it into pork and beef and yet better still to distil dastil it into whisky before exportation but such buch questions often have to he be decided by those most interested according to circumstances more than choice the rolling stock of the road consists of engine no 1 named after the president john W young a lively little affair ar capable on a smooth level track of making 40 miles per hour with ease weight about 14 tons with four coupled drivers of 4 feet diameter and pony truck cylinders 9 x 16 this engine on one occasion took passengers to brigham city and considering si that it has done all the tho work of the road since it commenced with scarcely any repairs and no time to cool omm off if they were needed and not even a bolt or nut loose it must be conceded that the grant locomotive works can build an engine that will hang bang together well weli two other engines are expected shortly from the same builders which will have six coupled drivers and pony truck there are two first cibes claps passenger pass pasi enger cars 7 feet wide inside and 85 35 feet long accommodating 46 passengers each as handsomely fitted up as any of the kind on any line and remarkably easy to ride in they also aloo have the miller platform and couplings one mall mail baggage and express with compartment for 20 passengers two eight wheel and one four wheel box c ears earb 1 1 six eight wheel flat cars and six four wheel do three dump cars for gravel or coal eoal two trolleys fourland four Fou hand cars it seems that the management of thib thia road disregarding the improvement in coal handling adopted by the U P fund find 0 pa P and reverently followed by the U 0 of shoveling coal into box and flat carb cars and carefully shoveling it out again have introduced the old fashioned dump car whereby a car holding from five tive to ten tons can be instantaneously discharged into a crib und under erthe the track la in conclusion the business prospects at this our first narrow gauge road are excellent and almost everybody interested seems beems to consider that it is and will be an unqualified success WM J |