Show POCATElL09S BIG QA Y Work I Commenced on IVIillion Dollar Plant PROMINENT OEFICIALS THERE t Superintendent of Machinery J F I Dunn With Consulting Engineer Berry Resident Engineer Ashton Contractors and Specialists on the Ground and Everyone Was Happy Ground Laid Off and Broken Work to Be RushedThe Plant to Cost Eventually 31250000 S TRIBUNE SPECIAL Pocatello 1 < a Jan 0Today was a rjusy day In Pocatello as a result oC the beginning or work on the new mil liondollar shop plant of the Oregon Short Line This morning Chief Engineer J Engi-neer 3 B Berry ot the Union Pacific 1 who Is consulting engineer of the Oregon Ore-gon Short Lino arrived from Omaha i and with him was JC Ruottlnger representing Grace Hyde of Chicago J tho contractors With Mr Berry also j was J K Irwin of Omaha one of the j most noted mechanical engineers In the country whose specialty Is detail work of large machinery plants and who j ha been engaged In Omaha for the i past three months workIng out details of the Pocatello shops Superintendent of Motive Power and Machinery J F Dunn arrived from Salt Lake and tho entire party with Resident Engineer William Ashton and Assistant Engineer Engi-neer John P Congdon registered at th Pacific hotel where rooms were engaged en-gaged for them In advance Concomitant Concomi-tant with the arrival of the chlefn of tho work everything was bustlo and animation around the present shops and the site of the new plant Mr Irwin busied himself with measurements measure-ments of such of the old machines as I will be placed In the new plant out of the present shops LABORERS IN DEMAND Superintendent Ruettlngcr immediately immedi-ately began casting about for men and b material and was much disappointed that there were no idle 1 men available for the work In hand To remedy this t shortage he placed scarehead advertisements adver-tisements for laborers and stonemasons in jtlie local papers lie seemed cape i I bi us LppoIritcdLo cr the scnrcity I teamstcraf t asili jiaa mien Ied puf ting i J Wsj fhs m S a5rs F to i work toro fo F l 5ovever j vnicommcnc > work with the force as lie can muster and will increase Just as rapidly as the men needed put In appearance This afternoon and until a late hour tonight he was busy with material men it being His intention to have local men furnish all of the materials If possible Its extremely probable that he will adopt the iamouo blue lava of the Port Neuf for all the stonework stone-work In the buildings as the stone lathe la-the very best foundation and trimming stone to bo found anywhere Mr Ash ton put In the evening showing the plans of the new improvcmnts to local newspaper men and others while Mr Berry ha nlhls lieutenants marshaled mar-shaled around him examining the lay of course for sewers inquiring into the matter of water supply and numerous numer-ous other details that arc not even mentioned in the plans J MR DUNN WAS BEAMING While others were busy Mr Dunn merely supervised customary field but there was a look of grim satisfaction satisfac-tion on his countenance for ho was continually considering the long uphill up-hill 1 fight ho has had for the shop plat and the months and ycaro of hard effort he put Jn to offset the disadvantages disad-vantages of his present inadequate plant To hIs selfdenial Is due the fact that a modern shop plant is now being constructed for all the years be could have had additions to the pre ent shop and new machines If he I would have only accepted them but he stood out for a modern plant and now he has f lie can afford to smile Master Mechanic D J Malone upon whom the brunt of years of shortage of roll and Inadequate machInery have fallen is like a boy with a well planned vacation on his hands TO COST OVER A MILLION While much has been printed about the cost of this shop plant the figures being variously placed at from 500000 the Is assured that to 700000 it now asure total cost will be not less than one and a quarter millions Available right now of is tho magnificent appropriation exhibited by 538000 and on the plans ehlb1cd Mr Ashton tonight the part of work tonlght bo cover shows to that tho sum Is to cov total plant It Js less than half of the I 1nlC with thc work the Intention to proceed thej without cessation and the management has assurance ce9tlon the dIrectors thnt I his asurance is CX the appiojiriatlon when present haustcd another will have been EU1 wl In hand now Is the CftC work ed The l1nld < roundhouse tho tlon of ten stalls to the routdhOUSOh t stllls maninioth iliaC i flO construction oC the manmlth lac hop and transfer taldle5 the a l n 5 cc be SO feet wide JU 5x 0 the ciectlofl at the powarIlousC 9 eccton ii5 fcot rnolcCStaChC r feet with a smoltCtaclt 15 electric u3 nani n the placing oC the elctrlc dncos construction ot a SCO this the constructon t and a nuni er 0 long nU1 small mile or details more The framework oC nil smal will be ot structura buildings the wil buldlnss ston or brJcjt on steel the wails being QI 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