Show I E SHOPS I Halt Million Dollar Plant for TO BE DECIDED lI SOON t I PLAUS P s NOW th IX H RAm NES S OF THE Tn DIRECTORS I It Ii I Is expected that within the next thirty y days dais da s the Oregon n Short Sheet Line di directors i rectors will approve the plans for new machine shops to be erected at I to in at a cost It Is said et of over oft W Within Within that time at tOast least the th J ler wilt will be decided upon and there Is every reason neson to believe that Pocatello rather than Ul n Salt Lake Ogden or any other I point tnt P on the line will ill be selected and that the directors will see the n l ty of 0 this improvement at once Tint Th Short Line shops when corn com completed will be larger than any in this part of the country and will employ more men The pleas plans and specifications have been in the general managers office iee o for lor two or three months and a second eco copy COP has been submitted to the directors at New York for approval To accomplish all the plans call can for forme menus means me tl an expenditure of or or more inoes and it is possible po ible that the board will at this thin time order only a part of the work The local officials however have k great hopes that there will be no retrenchment this year They antici anticipate anticipate pate having the whole plant in opera operation operation tion by next fall Call When the subject of the new shops shop was waa first brought up p Salt Lake wac wan looked upon as the most moat likely place at which they the would be erected Po Fe Pocatello Pocatello catello is the central point of the Short Line system for lines running north and south and east and west and the advantage of locating the big plant there is obvious The present shops of the company are extremely primitive and lid have ha e not nut the capacity required to keep up UI a road of expansive importance like the Short Line with big quantities of rolling roiling stock being added constantly to its equipment The new naw shops wherever they may be located will be of the thelno Ino modern type The machinery will willbe willbe w ill be operated by electricity the same me as contemplated by the Rio Itlo Grande West Vest Western Vestern ern era a and aad d while at present there is no nomore nomore nomore more electricity in the water power around Pocatello than titan is required to light the town steam can be made o otake ot take tae the place of or water without violat violating violatIng ing any an law of custom In vogue with big mechanical works If the new is put in at Poca Pore Pocatello Pocatello tello it means that a very small one will be e maintained here Salt Lake will win lose considerable by the move but with tOte the prospect of or the Rio Grande Western plant being located here this town appears to have no kick coming |