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Show RIO GRANDEJilNCTION. Supt, Saunders Sayi Bad Weather is In terferlng Seriously With the Pro- ; gress of the Work. APPOIHTMEHTS TO BE MADE. The Eoad Will Be a Perfeot One With a Grade Not to Exceed One Per Oent Other Eailway News of Interest. Thomas Saunders, superintendent of the Rio Grande Junction railway, says that bad weather has Interfered very much with the work, but it will bo finished fin-ished in a few days. When asked if the line would be "opened for regular traffic, on November 1st, he said he had nothing to say regarding the date, but ho thought it would be soon. When asked if the appointments in his department had been made, Mr. Saunders repliod that Mr. John C. King, who has been with the construction construc-tion company for the past year, would be appointed roadmaster. He was with the Mallory Construc;ion company for a long time, and built two or three hundred hun-dred miles of roadway for the Missouri Pacific. Mr. F. B. Farryberry has been selected as chief stenographer and chief dispatcher, having charge of all Western Union business on the line. Mr. Robert Hudson will be the chief clerk. Mr. Saunders will have no Jtrain crews under his supervision and will only have to lqok after the line of railway. rail-way. Each company using tho line will handle its own trains. lie says the road will be a perfect one with a grade not to exceed 1 per cent, and tho most of the way it is but about one-half of one per cent. The trains will be able to speed at a rate of thirly flvo to forty miles an hour. - The rails are sixty-five pound steel and the track is ballasted with gravel. Tho construction company com-pany is now operating within six miles of grand junction, and over eight thousand thou-sand feet of rails were laid ou Satur- day. Grand preparations are being made at Grand Junction for celebrating celebrat-ing the opening of the road and greater efforts will be made to make it a success suc-cess than anything of the kind tha has ever been done before. Mr. Saunders says that a party of the directors went over the line last Wednesday, and between Rifle and Grand Junction ran Into three different bands of deer and four of the animals were shot by a member of the party from the train, v A New Koad. Col. Fred A. Wyman, a well known capitalist of this city, has returned from a pilgrimage through the rocky regions of the territory, and is reporting to a syndicate who are looking to the construction con-struction of another railroad that has in view the tapping of hitherto undiscovered undis-covered resources. , The route that is contemplated embraces a region that will be of almost incalculable resources to the metropolis, and while the projectors pro-jectors are not disposed to give it in detail de-tail at this time, it .is an established conclusion that the road is to be constructed. con-structed. It is said to be independent of any route that has been conceived, and is essentially an enterprise that will be backed by Mormon pluck and capital. cap-ital. Mr. Wyman, who leads tho project, is a well "known Coloradoan who came to this country fifteen years ago, and whose indorsement can bring largo volume vol-ume of capital from that commonwealth. common-wealth. r Local Train DUpatcheri Quit Work. Superintendent Corwlu received a surprise yesterday when three local Union Pacitio train dispatchers quit the service. The men who relinquished their positions are J. V. Hampton, E. B. Spencer and W. S. Spencer. This action act-ion loft the third regular . dispatcher, J. P. Hammond, on call who appeared and managed things until now men were plaoed in the vacancies. Tho operators op-erators who quit do not give any definite defi-nite reasons for their actions but say they intended to stop work November 1st. ,'""'.'') - Saving the Wire.' Vice President Holcomb of the Union Pacific has issued an order affecting the transmission of matters pertaining to railway business by telegraph. Tho order states that telegrams have been sent in such numbers and of such length as to burden the wires and impair the effectiveness of the service, llereaftor all matters, except the most imporant and urgent will be forwardod by train. 1 Round Ilouie at Pooatello. Work upon the new round-house at Pocatello has beon commenced in earnest earn-est and it will be pushed as fast as brick and stone can be laid. ; The carpenters car-penters are also at work and ere long wo will have a torty stall round house of stone and brick and a new turntable at the same time. i Kollroad Notes and Personals, The Union Pacific are to build a new, largo passedger and freight station at South Omaha. -i . . It is said that the Rock Island, - Missouri Mis-souri Pacific and Elkhorn roads will build a union depot in Llucoln. Nothing has been heard of E. J. Cooncy, the president of tho Switchmen's Switch-men's union, who loft Denver on the night of October U with between $3U0 and $100 belonging to tho union. The newest thing in the office of the Kio Grande Western railway Is Stenographer Steno-grapher Bradley's fine walnut desk. Ho is proud of it and never foils to show it to people coming into the office. Tho Union Pacific owns and operates a group of six mines at Rock Springs. Nos. 1, 8, 7 and 8 are in active operation ' and ruuning with full force, while mines 4 and 6 have been idle since last July for want of cars. The Union Pacific formerly operated a group of eight miues. No a was closed in 1880 and No. 9 was abandoned in 1887. |