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Show THE WORLD ON WHEELS. Work en the New Tlatia Llae be Com-ineaead Com-ineaead Wllhla a Few Days. Colonel Dodge of the Kio Grand Western announced yesterday that the new line into the Tintie mining district, I'tali, would be started in a few days. It will be ninety two miles in length. The tirst, or Kureka division, will be forty-two miles long, and the Deep Creek division fifty miles long. The company is now securing a right of way. In construction, the line will leave the Kio Grande Western a short distance south of I'rovo, and will run west through Spanish Fork. Kureka, I'ayson and Goshen. Colonel Dodge said to a reporter that this was a most Important extension; that it would open up the most valuable niines in Utah, and would prove a highly remunerative feeder to the main line. The Butte-ADecmoda Lin. Work has been commenced on the preliminary aurvey for the new road liom Butte to Anaconda. It is thought the survey will take at least thirty days. The work is in charge of Engineer Mo-Farlane. Mo-Farlane. This same gentleman ran a line with the same end in viuw some years ago and found everything favorable to the project. That work will all have to be done over again, but will stiil not be without its uses in the present undertaking. under-taking. It is understood that the line then nm was from the mines out on the ridge back of Walkerville and on north ot I tie Big Butte. According to the reports re-ports published at the time, and since, the grade obtained by this route is much better than that of the Montana Union and the line much shorter. In addition it will do away with the track up the mountain which was a costly piece of eiisiiirering and hardly leaves room for a rival. Work on the new road can not be commenced too soon as there are plenty of men waitiug to secure employment. A Mountain Tonne! Scheme. The project of tunnelling the range just below Grand Lake for the purpose of turning the waters of the Grand upon the arid plains is being much talked of. It is now proposed to run a railroad through this tunnel by the side of the (lowing water, and thus shorten the distance to Utah and other points west of the range. It is believed that the railroads will form a syndicate for the purpose of constructing this tunnel, and pay the expense of building and maintaining main-taining it by charging a toll for all trains which pass through. An immense reservoir can be built in South Park. ! where the waters of the river can be stored in the winter and lot loose on the arid lauds during the summer. Rnllruad Kipple. . Tom W. Orr has returned to his old position as chief clerk in the olilce of the vice-president anil general manager mana-ger of the Union I'acitic, succeeding J. F. Coykendall, resigned. It is reported that as one of the results re-sults of the absorption of the Chicago, Kansas Si Nebraska by the llock Island the general otlicts of the road at To-peka To-peka would be moved to Chicago. The ollices of the operating and freight department de-partment will reraaiu at Topeka, but those of the treasurer, auditor and chief engineer will go to Chicago. The time tables, folders and adver-tisementsof adver-tisementsof the Alton have been thrown out of the New York Central depot at New York. C. V. Lewis has been appointed assistant as-sistant general freight agent of the Big Four, with headquarters at Cincinnati. He will enter upon the discharge, oi his duties June 1. One of the class ''O" engines on the Pennsylvania line, a day or two ago hauled a live stock train of eighteen errs 1M miles in four hours and ten minutes. W A. Russell has been selected to succeed A . A. Heard as rate compiler of the Trans M issouri Passenger association. associa-tion. The Big Four is receiving new freight equipments at the rate of live refrigerator refriger-ator ears a day until L'OO are delivered, and coal and tlat cars at the rate of twenty a day until loot) are delivered. When these cars are in service the company com-pany will have lU,4xs cars. most of thtra new within the last three years. |