Show HAD BID GRANDE PLANS IM from salt lake hem herald id republican B F bush the newly elected president of the denver bio RIO grande and the western pacific railroads said shortly after his arrival in salt lake that the denver bio rio grande will begin the immediate expenditure of in the reconstruction of its load over soldier summit in central utah to reduce the present grade of four and one half per cent to one of not more than two percent per cent that part of the D R G over soldier summit is the weakest link in the system and with the increased business that is coming over the route traffic managers find it impossible to get enough motive power to move it with the announcement of the proposed rebuilding of the summit line the newly elected president stated that new and additional motive power would probably be bought by the road in the spring and that one of his objects on the present trip was to place before his board of directors a report showing the best meana for bringing the road to the highest state of efficiency possible the amount of money to be expended in thel on the roads was not made public by mr bush the amount to be spent he said sald would be governed by the improvements prove ments necessary and the amount of business to be developed in the country through which the road passes mr bush stated that from salt lake he would return over part of the line covered on his trip from denver diverging at grand june junction and following the lines of the company to pueblo it is within the line of possibilities said president bush that the entire narrow gauge lines of the road will be standardized as fast as possible but the matter will not be definite definitely decided until amount of business that these roads will bring to the main line lifie has been learned another project under consideration by the officials of the D R G is tb 1 3 building of the dottero dotsero cutoff tho proposed route of this link be between the rio grande and the road would cover forty miles tle road connecting with the moffat road about twenty miles east of steamboat springs the western terminus |