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Show I'NIOX PACIFIC SlIOl'S. Cheyenne Jubilant Over the Starting or the Mig Machinery. Chkyenxk. Wyo., April 17. Special to Denver News.l The big machine shops of tho Union Pacific Railroad company were started up hero Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. The company employes havo been working over time for the past week, completing the work of putting in boilers, making steam eon-connections eon-connections and fitting belting to the machinery. At It) o'clock this morning four or five hundred people were on hand to witness the formal starting of the machinery. Among those present were the president presi-dent ot the Cheyenne board of trade, the city council "anil a number of visitors visit-ors from out of town. Hon. O. W. Rhine, mayor of Cheyenne, was delegated dele-gated to otion the valve which would sot tho machinery in motion. Promptly at 10 tho mayor grasped the big valve and under tho direction of the superintendent superin-tendent of the shops, Mr. J. C. Munroo, turned the wheel. Immediately tho big engine, 200-horso power, was in operation nnd the 130 lathes, planers and other machines in the big shop were running almost noiselessly. Willi the starling of tho machinery three cheers were given by those present for tho new shops aiid the Union Pacific band, which was in attendance, played a lively air. Several hundred men were put to work in tho various departments of the shops. The foreo will bo .increased .in-creased to 700 during tho present season. sea-son. The shops wore commenced about a year ago and up to the present time havo involved an expenditure of a quarter quar-ter of a million ot dollars. As much more will be expended during the present pres-ent year on a foundry and passenger car building shop. , |