Show WILL BUILD OGDEN burlington to have its rails there in eighteen months have already a road to fort laramie when completed will be a short line between oden and missouri river under the above heading the san francisco bulletin of last friday says it is now pretty generally understood that the burlington road will enter ogden and salt lake city within the next eighteen months the burlington is now building a line from alliance neb to brush colorado via northrup sydney and sterling and west from northrup up the platte river which is already completed to fort laramie in wyoming the line will then go through the rocky mountains in a natural pass and will run twenty miles north of the union pacific crossing this line at granger and will develop the great copper iron and coal fields in wyoming this is the line that win be completed within eighteen months to ogden and salt lake it will be a low grade line and there will be no curve of over twenty degrees it will be the short line from ogden to the missouri river it ignot yet definitely known whether will build from granger to ogden or that they will make some arrangement with the union pacific to run their trains from granger over its line to ogden this will give ogden the following roads the southern pacific the oregon short line the rio grande western and the chicago burlington quincy and later on the new road to los angeles RAILROAD NOTES the S P was three hours late this morning the S P pay car came in yesterday but did not pay off until this morning bug holliday the popular S P boy will spend decoration day in salt lake D R gray the southern pacific agent at salt lake was registered at the pacific yesterday hon frank chief executive passed through last night en route home after a visit to salt lake campbell bros circus advertising car no 1 came up from the south this afternoon the paper men have started to bill the city the santa fe company have announced that three limited trains between chicago and san francisco will be operated weekly dick jose the great tenor singer went west to reno his home this afternoon ter noon he was formerly with primrose bests minstrels the union pacific boys have received their new baseball uniforms they are now confident of putting up a good game with the fuels tomorrow traffic manager S H babyock Ba boock general freight agent henry and general passenger agent G W heintz of the rio grande western were in the city yesterday afternoon the denver news says that J G metcalfe general manager of the louisville nashville has accepted the otter of a similar position with the denver rio grande mr metcalfe supersedes C H who resigned in order to accept the position of general manager of the colorado midland general manager E dickinson accompanied compa nied by superintendents park harris and baird were in ogden yesterday mr park abo was superintendent of the nebraska division succeeds mr harris as general superintendent of the wyoming division mr park will not take complete charge until the first of june the gentlemen while here were guests of a number of ogden gentlemen who took them for a drive about the city up the canyon and to glenwood in he evening a box party was given tham at the opera house those in the party were E dickinson G E baard E C harris W L park david eccles judge dee judge george H corse and fred J kiesel mr dickinson and party left this morning tor the east on a special SECTION HANDS STRIKE scranton pa may 29 all the section hands on the valley railroad between sayre pa and jersey city are out on strike they want their wages increased from to a day the strikers number 1 the company served notice that it the men do not return to work before june 1 new men will be hired A joint grievance committee representing the crews switchmen and operators will wait on general superintendent wilburit Wil burat at south bethlehem next week ito complain of the companas comp anys alleged failure to live up to the agreement by the last strike was settled new york may 29 aldace F walker chairman of the atchason Atch lson topeka and santa fe board says that the carson colorado cuton cut on mentioned in salt lake dispatches in connection with G P visit to that city will be built and operated jointly by alie southern pacific and the atchison mr walker said tho formation ol 01 the company referred to has been alleged in the western press to indicate the existence of a deal between the southern pacific and the in respect to california traffic generally but it means nothing of the kind beyond the well known fact that the managements age ments of both these systems are opposed to unnecessary railroad construction st and believe that when one line can be utilized by both companies that course is preferable to the building of a parallel line californians IN CHICAGO chicago may SO the twelve members of the track team of the university of california arrived here last night and are quartered at the lexington hotel the men are in excellent shape and anticipate carrying off a few of the honors in the meet at ravenswood Ravens wood saturday flaw thinks he will be in better shape to bettor his recent mark the will leave for the pacific coast immediately after the meet saturday |