Show RAILROAD NOTES the morning trains all on time today a somewhat unusual event of late joseph A west chief engineer of the utah and pacific spent pioneer day in ogden I 1 L reynolds of superintendent nobles office has returned from his fishing excursion superintendent baker of the pullman office has returned from a visit of inspection ot offices among tho offices the san francisco examiner charges that the southern pacific is using chinese as spotters and that several conductors have been let out as a result 0 their operations with the union pacific in a close traffic agreement with the central pacific and the chicago northwestern trading traffic with the latter road the old C P would be one of the most valuable properties in the country and it looks like that la the kind of a deal that is being arranged W H herran chief counsel of the southern pacific railroad company ac compan led by his private secretary E murphy came in from the west this morning in their special car gaud cloupe and spent the day in ogden judge marshall of salt lake attorney tor the S P oame up and held a consultation with attorney herran C K bannister who is the ogden engineer who had charge of the field notes of the survey ot donald mcleans sioux city short line said he did not know anything about an oner being made by eastern parties for the notes it is said however that the line surveyed under mr Bannis direction is a first class route for a railroad the denver republican says the Vander bilts do not own a dollar in the union pacific railroad this news it correct will be a shock to those who have been crediting the Vander bilts with so many union pacific intentions but may account tor the early construction st of the chicago northwestern to ogden THE UTAH PACIFIC the utah pacific will be completed to the state line this week A meeting of the directors was called to meet in salt lake at 4 today the matter of the extension of the utah pacific through nevada Is in abeyance and is not likely to comei up for consideration tor some time chief engineer west went down to attend the meeting of the directors the following interview is from the lewiston idaho tribune A summing up of the work that president mellen announces his company has decided upon Is aa follows the clearwater extension which will becom piloted sixty miles by November 1 ast 1st wilt be extended on to camas prairie and probably to buffalo hump the laprai lapwai extension will be pushed on to nezperce Nez perce a branch will be built up the potlatch from kendrick lck twenty five miles into the white pine timber 1 and it the oregon railway navigation does not make a suitable arrangement with the northern pacific for a joint use of the track along the snake river from lewiston the northern pacific will bridge the river at this point and build to a connection with their eureka flat line thus giving them a through line to the coast |