Show I RAILWAY CIRCLES I Extensive Grading Between Park City and Evanston LARGE FORCES OF MEN AT WORK The salt Lake Wyoming California PushIng I Push-Ing Work East and West Other Notes The managers of the Salt Lake Wyoming California railroad are pushing their enterprise to completion as rapidly as possible pos-sible The contracts for grading between Park city and Evanston have been let and a large force of men with 1TG teams are now at work the contractors having agreed to complete this grado by December 1 Tracklaying is to begin sometime next month and as soon as possible trains will be put on between Park city and Evanston Evan-ston when coal will be laid down in the Park at considerably lower price than are being paid now The survey east of this extends to within thirty miles ot the line of the Chicago Northwestern at Sweet water pass BetweenSalt Lake and Park city there are two gangs of men at work The grado IN EMIOKATIOX CANYON is difficult as there are three tunnels on this route which will take at least four months steady work to complete It is hoped however to have the entire track laid and trains running within the next five months The longest tunnel on the road will be 3500 feet through the main mountain range about half way between the old emigration crossing and Parleys crossing to Big mountains This tunnel will sit possible to pass on to the top at a grade of 1110 per cent Another shorter tunnel will bo run through Little mountain at the head of Emigration caCon and the third at a point about midway between be-tween the other two tunnels All of these tunnels will bo comparatively easy as the work will bo almost entirely in sandstone A sample of a new electric drill has been ordered from California and if it proves to be as has been represented ten more will be ordered and the work of tunneling will be commenced It is said that the new drill is a great improvement over compressed com-pressed air and that the Panama canal has Just ordered 100 of them WESTIVAUll 110 Contractors put a largo force of men at work near Lake Point next week and the grade of 1C5 miles to the Nevada line will be put through with all possible speed A small space this side of Lake Point still remains ungraded and will be finished first The injunction issued by the Utah Nevada railroad company still remains in status quo and will probably not be brought up again until the other grading is nearly completed The timbers for the bridge over the Jordan have been laid on the riverbank river-bank in readiness for the bridge builders No definite steps have yet been taken in the matter of the location of a depot as the managers state that they are awaiting the development of the union depot project The president of the new road said yesterday yester-day that the company expected to have their entire line in working order from the Nevada line to Evanston by June A TOUR OVEK TIlE ROUTE President Fulton General Manager Bates Director Gardner and the chief engineer I en-gineer of the road leave tomorrow morning morn-ing for Evanston where they will take teams and drive over the route and locate the stations tanks switches etc along I the entire line The party expect to be gone at least five days The steel rails and a portion of the rolling stock have been ordered and will arrive within two months The first consignment will conftistroflenricngines 400 freight cars It has not yet been determined how many passenger coaches will be required and they will bo shipped with the second consignment Other Railroad Hatters I I Workmen are busily engaged in grading and laying the foundation on the new site for the Rio Grande Western depot which is soon to be moved J S Tebbetts assistant general freight agent of the Union Pacific will return to Omaha Neb this morning after a sojourn of nearly three weeks in this city and vicinity vi-cinity The new through service on the Oregon Short Line to Spokane Falls which was opened on the first is said to be well patronized pa-tronized anda great convenience to the traveling public The first installment of standard gauge engines and cars ordered by the Rio Grande Western is expected to arrive in this city tomorrow in which event standard gauge trains will be put on between here and Ogden on Monday next I H M Finck recently station agent at Pocatello has been made a traveling auditor audi-tor and will visit all the stations along the line of the Uthh Central and instruct the agents in the methods of keeping accounts according to the Union Pacific plan which was adopted when the consolidation of roads took place |