Salt Lake Herald | 1891-04-25 | Page 2 | In Railway Circles

I RAILWAY CIRCLES The Road to Salina is Being Vigorously Pushed The Rio Grande Western Will Not Build to Maryevale This Year It I Said The eyes of the people of the south are on the movements of the Rio Grando Western West-ern From SaUna our correspondent writes as follows SaUna has the railroad sure at last Mr Babcock rightofway agent of the Rio Grande Western was at Salina on Monday finishing up the business busi-ness I had a little chat with the gentleman gentle-man on the railroad business being introduced Intro-duced by the enterprising superintendent of the Salina coop Mr Babcock stated that the cars would steam into Salina about the 1st of July and in order to do so every effort was made to hurry up the grading etc The heavy rock cut six miles south of Manti which is forty feet deep will be hurried up by putting on day and nightshifts night-shifts and the heavy grading in Saleratus canon will be also hurried Contracts on the section between Gunnison and Salina were given out and work will commence at once I asked Mr Babcock if work would be pushed on south to Marysvale as soon as the cars would reach Salina His answer was that It would not this year as the company com-pany proposed to improve the road east in Soldier cafion making the road some fourteen four-teen miles longer and reducing it to a two degree grade with other improvements that were necessary So we up the river must exercise a little patience