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Show 'NOT ES OFJE ML. Progress on the Broad-Gauging Work on the Bio Grande We&t-ru We&t-ru Railway. THE EITLB 0EEEK , EXTENSION. Activo Building Operations Now Going ou in the Grand Valleys Other Railroad News- The Midland rushing Ahead. New Castle, April 3. Special. Tin; Rio Grande, hav ing last v eek completed com-pleted laying third and fourth rails, iiiiikinqr a narrow and broad gauge railway rail-way upon one set of lies between New Castle and Rifle, work upon Rio Grande junction will next be started. Track laying will be started in a day or two on the new road, which will be broad gauge only. The. Midland will lay this track. A boarding train Miflieient to accommodate 250 track-layers and laborers w ill be placed at Rifle this week by the Colorado Midland. Teams are now engaged in distributing rails and lies just beyond the town limits of Rifle for the starting of this work. Report has it that track-laying track-laying of Grand Junction railway rail-way will be done by machinery. machin-ery. If so, there can bo no doubt aliout the completion of the road from Rifle Creek to Grand Junction crock by July 1. 1800, as grade is now practically completed between (lie points named. Kails to the amount of several hundred ears aw stored at New Castle and Rifle, and ties are arriving by Irainloads. The extensive preparations prepara-tions indicate lively work ahead in railroad rail-road building in Grand valley during! the next three months. As .slated by your correspondent froln tins point several sev-eral weeks ago, the belief is growing that work in Grand valley, also in upper Arkansas valley, is being pushed largely in the interest of the Missouri Pacific, Jay Gould being Interested in lines extending ex-tending from Pueblo to Ogden, Utah. Heavy broad-gauge passenger trains will lie whirling up and down Grand valley before the 1st of August next. |