| Show railroading IN AND OUT OF odden from thursdays standard W R bell one of the old time machinists ts in the southern pacific shops iu this city from peora ills till aind is spending a few I 1 daya 1 TG G ag a clerk in the office of J F dunn superintendent of motive power at salt lake is in the city attending to some business connected with pat department J A ves leni manager of the car wheel company with headquarters at denver Is in ogden mrs J Q arlow wife of the chief engineer of the maryland railroad of cumberland maryland is visiting with mis robert reynolds actipe manager hirose of the jap industrial corporation of this ally on behalf of the japanese people has sent one ha t boaen cups and saucers to the farmers and a salad disk and cake plate to tho section foreman of the oregon short line at virginia idaho as a token of ap of the kind which they exhibited in caring for hi japanese boy who died from exhaustion at that place a few days ago and who was buried tuesday in the mountain view cemetery alie japanese of this city feel very grateful to the farmers and bention foreman in ll al locality wiio furnished aid and for the unfortunate A request from the ogden railway mail service recently sent to headquarters may be the means of changing the method of handling oriental mail at present the boys going west and the going east are checked and transferred at ogden this method makes much work effects a loss of time and interferes with the regular mail se vice the proposition under consideration is to ship the mail direct to frisco and ew york without checking and transferring at ogden V quicker service can be secured in that way the overland limited on the union pacific collided with a freight train headon head on at station early chii morning demolishing the engines dynamo mall and dining cars on the passenger train nine people eire known to he killed including the two mall clerks lour cooks in the dining car two electricians in the dynamo car and one engineer information hem been received to the effect that the dam of file union pacific railway ice pond at Evan tou wyo broke yesterday letting all of water on the reservoir which covers about ten acres was discovered to be leaking and a large force of men were placed ar work bui despite every effort made the break widened and deepened until about eighty bank meui was carried away the reservoir was just completed aliis fall at a cost of several thousand dollars for the purpose of the immense ice houses at asdon and other points and was equipped elili the most modern machinery for icing cars traffic in and out ot ogdene Is at the present time the heable t in the of the loads and is daily on the increase at the present lime there are thirty one chews running west on ahe southern pacific and the anie number east on the union pacina aa against fourteen crews for the aaroe month last year or a gain of i eveleen crews this ear over last the principal freight now in transit is oranges anil other perishable from the west and holiday goods from the east the movement is also a steady one from th business point of view as it is not 1 movement but the general routine of business the local freight house capacity is taxed to its utmost and day and night forces are kept busy keeping the freight shipments moving and a great deal of transferring has to be done at the local freight sheds it is reported that the chicago northwestern railway a few days ago made a payment of on a right ot ay across a piece of coal land in the jackson hole country which Is owned by wyoming and chicago people there are other evidences in the jacdson hale country that the northwestern will not stop at lauder with its casper extension hut will push on into idaho and possibly to the pacific coast preliminary arrangements have been made for an entrance into st anthony and other idaho towns it will no doubt be to learn that when the new train over the pacific and san pedro fe placed in effect forty two i ger trains will be made up giitl re in ogden during the period of every twenty four hours even this figure seems very largo to the man aho vho every day is a visitor to the depot and watches the different employed emp loyes iwho nun about performing their different at the present time there aro tour trains each way on the union three trains each way on the oregon short line south ix trains each way on the short line north four trains yach way on the southern pa and four each way on the rio gialdo western all of which are handled ith promptness oftentimes the entire train is made up from the cara in the yard aud parted upon the hue st E maloire has ased appointed to eman in charge or the motive power department of the southern pacific at ulna vice W I 1 calvert resigned mr malone has been employed as a machinist in the local for many years and carries with him lip best wishes of the entire force |
