Show 0 the oregon short line railroad company has a force of surveyors at work making surveys from boise idaho up the river a few miles to the site of the hig big dam soon to td be constructed by eastern capital the dam will be used for log booming and also for the generation of electric power for the operation of saw mills the intention being bein to turn out millions of feet of lumber annually the logs will be rafted crafted down the river from the northern portion of idaho secretary farrell of the salt lake engineering gi bof works i ks announces that his company has closed a contract with mith the rio ri grande system to furn furnish ish all its railroad castings the company is enlarging an and d equipping its foundry and machine shops for turning out all general machinery an and railroad work similar to that from other shops in the east doing th the e same class ol of w or k |