Show IN RAILWAY CIRCLES california oregon sau suit against land owners on iligir line and railway construction in the northwestern statta frog ress of the range road the through train service onabe on the rock island between denver nd ind chicago via omaha will be started august the sumpter valley railroad is now in operation and hauling kit to 1 abe e cow company banyo Faw milla in milovale Wil ovalo adji add tion to biker baker city or the Bar burlington lington will not sop stop ite its wark ot of construction at donkey creek wyo the burlington ie Is a road which keeps the flies well brushed off ibe I 1 and will not rest until it reaches halena mont railway development in the will continue for many years there are now nearly miles of track west of the missouri river ae As tion con continues to increase I 1 he lines of traffic and travel will multiply A par party of denver apex western 0 officials nc la 71 a have ma made de trip to the top of pikes peak on the cog railway the object of the excursion was to inspect a the cog 87 system with a view to utilizing it on some of the steep trades grades on the western vestern the french government baa has decided that railroad engineers must not be actively employed tor for more than twelve hours a day I 1 this big is is not an unwise provision provi eion R railroad L accidents have occurred t through rough h the weariness weariness of employees the vancouver Kicki tat railroad across the pass through the cascade mountains has been cold sold to the great northern jim iville company to be built to spokane to form a direct connection for that road to portland or the great northern pacific railway astern reports earnings ear nga for the jear year e ending riding june une 30 h of an in crease over tho year of 1 or neatly 13 per cent inta 3 is a very excelle ut kh i howing owing ai si it bae has been made with very little increase of mileage the rio grando southern is is making meting sure progreso pro gres grees toward rico coll coli which point it will reach within within a f few weeks whilo hilo he the building of the road has been retarded by the close condition of the money market it is expected that it will reach durango in the early fall the oregon california railroad company has commenced suit in the united st states ates circuit court at portland against fifty three landholders who ano have taken up claims within abe limit of the old oregon central railroad grant tor for the parisso pun pari osa oso of ca compelling pellin 9 them thern to qu ei el title to tho he la land raid the they y have filed on the graders on the tintic gintic range railroad are making makin jeuch glauch rapid rap ld progress that new life and activity ie is being infused into the mining industry with the consequence that very favorable reports are coming in from all directions as to the opening up of cew new mines and the working with renewed vigor ot old ones according to tha 1 E aa gingering heus neus there b have ave brea miles of of irek tr ck laid a ld lathe in the nor abern states sinca january let there are now 1017 miles la in proc process esef tf construction coDet ruction 1929 miles under survey and sad miles projects ec t ej for future construction this sho bhawe a a I 1 eavy decre aeo from similar figures published a year ago on oa tuesday a freight train cot coming ping down a grade west of american falls all 1 parted about be middle of I 1 he train the forward part darling darting ahead before the engineer knew know what bad happened pene d looking back he dicov di cov red the mishap and slowed up the rear end of the train cime came th daring down the grade and it lie the forward cars with such force that half a dozen cars care were thrown from the track the increase in the earlif earnings rig of 0 the rio grande western for the first i ceven evea months of the year is 62 89 per cent 0 a figure which beads heads the list for the year and which has hat been equalled equal led by any road in any year A very large percentage of this increase increate e 1 in from local business and demon t abe he wisdom of the policy abich the western has bas adopted extending of branches tj ta the leading mining cam pi and ind other producing sections BeC tiong an aal 1 thus in developing the resources of utah perhaps one of the mort moet miraculous mirac noua escapes known in the annals of wrecks on the idaho division of the urion pacific occurred at 5 a m tuesday about one nolle mile west of C Cam ammon coon at which point the argine and coaches of no 1 left the track owing to the rails spreading the engi engine n a turned bottom side up and sd the coaches laid on the sides but no one was seriously injured engineer Lag ineer lVis hong had bis his shoulder dislocated but it went immediately back into place his ilis face was also slightly Blight ly scalded from escaping steam fireman danielson was scratched op up a little superintendent calvin and assistant superintendent morris went to the scene early in the morning and at noon the passengers were taken to PC pocatello P catello the ties being new and be the rails of the beet best steel at this point it is be the opinion of railroad men that some one had bad pulled the spikes on one I 1 tide ida ot of the track caming causing the acci dant it may have bave been some bome one laying y ing for gould |