Most of the ticket agents are
telegraph operators, but there are 13 other operators employed. There
are four double-track lines in operation. The aggregate daily receipts
vary from $14,000 to $18,000; and as many as 274,023 passengers have
been carried in one day. Engineers are paid from $3 to $3.50 per day;
ticket agents, $1.75 to $2.25; conductors, $1.90 to $2.50; firemen,
$1.90 to $2; guards or brakemen, $1.50 to $1.65; and gatemen, $1.20 to
$1.50. The above items do not include machinists and other _employes_
in the workshops, or the general officers, clerks, etc.
* * * * *
AMERICAN ANTIMONY.
A Baltimore dispatch informs us that a carload of antimony, ten tons
in all, was lately received by C.L. Oudesluys & Co., from the southern
part of Utah Territory, being the first antimony received in the East
from the mines of that section. The antimony was mined about 140 miles
from Salt Lake City. The ore is a sulphide, bluish gray in color, and
yields from 60 to 65 per cent. of antimony. All antimony heretofore
came from Great Britain and the island of Borneo, and paid an import
duty of 10 per cent. ad valorem, and there is also some from Sonora.
It is believed that with proper rail facilities to the mines of the
West there will be no need of importations.
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