Show RAILROAD NOTES many cars ot blooded stock are being shipped through ogden tor the sail lake livestock convention E H orth southern pacific operator at bonneville Is in on a vacation and has been relieved by P C wll hams the burlington road Is reported to have obtained possession ot extensive coal deposits about 75 miles west of guernsey W P biart the night foreman on the southern pacific in ogden has been appointed foreman ot the oregon short line at kemmerrer Kem wyo A J crase a southern pacific freight conductor left itogay for los angeles where he goes ito attend bome holdings in oil hads the recent decision of the interstate inter state commerce commission in the st louis robbers case means the upsetting of the entaro freight schedule tot western roads and a reduction of 25 per cent rates P E jenkens stenographer in bupt supt nobles office has resigned and left today for california but later go to seattle paul jones formerly with the pleasant valley coal co succeeds mr jenkens george lang and newell puttee late ot he union pacific offices in portland and ogden are on their way through to omaha thence they are going to headquarters prior to receiving other appointments the oregon short line is said to have decided to lay aside the plans tor the proposed shop plant at pocatello and will consider the feasibility of establishing a central shop plant tn salt lake atty utah to cost nearly the engineering news the latest rumor Is to the effect that the northwestern will be extended to denver the line will run through nebraska in a nearly direct southwesterly direction crossing the burlington at hyannis and the north platte at osh kacsh the union pacific will be crossed at sydney and the south platte river at harden colorado the country through which the proposed line would pass is tree from any engineering difficulties to speak of and the road could be constructed at a cost ot about per atle it would be about alles mlles long the northern pacific railroad company has filed in idaho a profile of definite location in the united states land office tor a right of way from to grangeville Grange ville via three mile creek jhc thc cottonwood route the location of was filed several months ago was relinquished ed by the company the papers of relinquishment being filed with the of the new route this action on the part of the northern pacific officials is interpreted to mean an early extension of the clearwater Clean water short line branch to camas prairie the new route Is shorter and the grade is said to bt the besic that hasael been found the middle fork of the clearwater to the intermountain plateau detersives Deter tives of the western passenger association secured proof last saturday that the publishers of several weekly papers issued in chicago had formed an alliance for the purpose of selling halt rate tickets and obby borins of transportation issued to them by railroads in exchange for advertise ing the publishers ct one of the ars supplied one of the detectives with over worth of transportation and ether detectives secured from other publishers in the ring from 25 to worth of transportation so cleverly did one detective play his part that a publisher took him to the ad agents of the burlington northwestern santa fe and rock island roads and introduced him to them as one of the editors of ate paper the western roads including the union pacific santa fe colorado midland R G W and D R G will cancel their contracts with the papers steel rail production has had a mar astory during the 32 years since it began in 1868 rails sold at per ton but even at this price a few railroad companies had decided that it was economy to begin the use of them instead of alron ten years later in 1878 the price had dropped to and about one quarter of the railway mileage of the country was of deteel rails during the next ten years the price first doubled reaching 85 in asso and then de dined to in 1888 by which time there were miles of steel tracks against miles of iron at the end of another decade in 1898 the price had fallen to 18 and there were miles of steel tracks only about miles of iron remaining the following year 1899 saw nearly allea of steel added although in the course of ahe year the price had almost doubled today the mileage of steel is about as compared with allea of iron that is 92 per cent steel and 8 percent iron and the battered rellna of the iron age that still linger in the scattered sidings and spur tracks will soon disappear although the price 26 fixed by the mills tor the coming year Is an advance of 8 over tho price at he of 1899 it Is less than the average quotation tor that year but it is a higher figure than the largo purchasers expected to pay and if maintained may somewhat diminish the amount of new construction and renewals |