Show RIO GRANDE W WESTERN STERN SHOWS GOOD BUSINESS The The development of f the gre greatest test local interest on the Rio Gra Gramie e Western in the ye year r jut jUst Ios d was of of a p personal nature This was the return of f A E Eto Velb to the management Of the road after an absence of several years jears Th The r return turn ot of so pOPular and experienced a i railroad man is taken to mean that orward moves of importance Importance tance are in contemplation for the year jUst opening The retirement Of so o popular a nan as Joseph H Young I from local railroad circles is regretted but the t regret gret Is offset by t the e general gOOd feeling over the return of Welby Vel by I The financial report of the Rio Grande was not so good for the thc ye year r ras as It has lIas been in some previous years The falling failing ff was accounted for al almost almost most wholly o the labor troubles in Colorado The Utah end of the line did well rell and made as good a record as asIn asIn In an any previous year ear outside of the coat coal traffic Here there was wag a falling o off IT due to the labor Jabor dIsturbances in Carbon county and the fact that the Harriman lines blocked the coal oal traffic to some some extent at Ogden The passenger ger er traffic on the Rio Grande was never b better the travel to the coast over this popular scenic line was one of the fea feaS S lures of the year ar in local railroad ac activities activities The completion tion of the narrow g gauge uge road ft the miles long from fromMack 1 Mack ack Cob Colo o 0 J Dragon raon Utah in the thc heart or of the gilsonite onIte country in the extreme eastern part of the state was looked upon as a Rio Grande enterprIse although no dir direct t has yet been acknowledged On the surface the road seems to be the property or of orthe the St S1 Louis Gilsonite company and was vas constructed for the purpose of de developing developing the asphaltum Industry in eastern Utah The greatest significance attached to thIs thin little road is due to the fact that surveys ys already indicate its extension into the Duchesne country It If the evIdent purposes are carrIed Into effect activity of f unusual character will willbe willbe be found In that hat part of Utah through throughout h hout out the entire coming year especially If Indian reservation is opened to settlement At the close of the year ear the opinion also prevails that the Rio Grande West Yest era ern Is to take tak the Copper Belt railroad at Bingham canyon nyon early in the new year ear If terms can c be agreed upon all ar arund und During the year double passenger servIce w wa put on between Salt Lake Lako and Bingham and the greatly increased travel justified the move Talk of new neV branches In southern Utah to tap rl rich h mineral territory was common during the year but no definite move was made In the way of construe I Hon tion work The at the close is that all these enter irises are arc p do de n 11 th Important projects in he minds of western rail S The usual volume of repair work workshop shop hop work and ballasting characterized thE year No backward steps were taken in the matter of Improving the I equipment of the road stocking the I streams with fish and planting trees along the of wa way were among the interesting developments of the year ear I |