Show PLAN TO CROWD WORK UN tIN DEPOT 4 Rio o Grande and Western Pacific Well Pleased With the Present Outlook WAVE HAVE ALL LAND NEEDED WILL START WORK ON STATION IN THE SPRING Work on the new union depot deot for the Rio Grande Western and the Western Pacific Railroad companies will begin early in the spring This is the information given out locally but un unofficially Unofficially officially by those directly connected with the two roads The work on the grading of the Western Pacific Is un under under under der way Much lIuch of it Is already com cOIn completed completed In Utah as well as in Nevada and California and the understanding Is that the work on the depot tracks and yards Is to be pushed in order that all aU terminal facilities will be ready when the line Is completed between Salt Lake City and San Francisco Originally Is was wa planned to expend on the Rio Grande Western depot This road is under obligations to expend this sum but It is not at all certain that this sum will not n t be largely augmented now that the West Western Western ern n Pacific Is to use the same station The Western Pacific has secured practically all the ground it needs for Into the city and for tor Its Hs connections with the Rio Grande Western Much of this has been pur purchased purchased purchased chased outright from the owners some somer of r it is 18 s being secured under condemnation ton Ion proceedings in the courts and nd some of it has been secured by the settlement of condemnation suits Has Ground It Needs for or the Western Pa Pacific Pacific rifle secured In the way indicated above Includes land purchased through the western w tern part of the city on a tangent beginning be at ot the inter intersection intersection Intersection section of ot Fourth West and Third South extending north to the center of the tier of blocks between South Tem Tern Temple Temple pie and First South and from there west on a curved line bending south to the western boundary of the city Practically all the land needed is now in the possession of the company Of course the of the Rio Grande Western will be used wherever practicable ble This Is true of Fourth West street It is also true of Sixth West street These two streets will be utilized by both companies in making loops in getting Into and out of the city Ity The tracks on these those two streets will be joined for traffic purposes both in the northern and southern warts parts of the city Attorney Waldemar Van Cott who is ris looking after atter the legal interests of the Western Pacific at this end of the thelIne thelIne lIne said yesterday that the company got all that it desired in the way of a franchise He did not think there was any doubt of ot the acceptance of the franchise e as it passed the city council He Ie was also pleased with the status of J the for the road Into tho the city and is confluent ent that work on the depot and the tracks through 4 the city will begin early in the spring He ie did not profess to speak officially I No aTo one he saiu could do that at this jend nd of the line Une At the same me time he cald isaid the work of grading for the road was being pushed with all possible energy he predicted that the new de depot depot depot pot would be completed and ready as Soon Boon as the road is complete Welby Looks for a Rush General Superintendent A E B Welby Weiby paid the company had sixty days in which to accept the franchise passed Iby the council last week It has been forwarded to the head he d officials of the company and nothing will be done un unil jil tU il they have spoken He does not i think that work on the new depot will willbe willbe be started until spring opens but ex expects expects it to be pushed then just as the construction of ot the road Is being pushed Nothing will be omitted from the th new anew station necessary to put it in the front rank of or western railroad sta stations stations Lions It will stand across Third South treeL The two railroad companies now own the western half halt of or blocks 47 and 62 These two blocks extend be between between tween Second and Fourth South and between Third and Fourth West A feet teet wide Is to be north and south through the center of or these two blocks and the west front of or the depot will be on this treet As a site for the passenger depot the theo two Iw o 0 roads will have a piece of ground 1452 feet teet in length and feet wide a This his does not take into consideration West street which will win be Jaken taken up with tracks Nor does it rake ke into effect the new street to be through the two blocks sixty pix Ix feet wide A subway or viaduct is iso to lo o be constructed and maintained over he be tracks and through the depot on Third South Site Is Considered Ideal Everybody connected locally with hither felther of ot the two companies compani s interested is s convinced that an Ideal site for the has been secured The that reach the city the higher officials are to the same effect it t is considered as near to the busi busl hess bess ess center of the city as could be hoped for and with the steady drift of Dr business to the south It Is i predicted that in a short time Third South street stroet will be one of ot the best business streets In the city This is especially esp true It Is argued with the union depot at one end nd and the Knutsford hotel the city nd county building and the federal building practically at the other end endAll All AIl hope of ot a union depot in tion Uon with the Oregon Short Line and the Salt Lake Route has h been aban by the local officials ot of the Western Pacific and the Rio Grande Western |