Show EFFECTS GREAT SAVING l Details of Reduction in Distance Dis-tance Grade and Curves 1l 1 l UNION PACIFIC CUTOFF By Constructing 4734 Miles the Line was Shortened Nineteen Miles the Grade wns Reduced Fortythree Feet Per Mile and 3814 Degrees of Curvature were Eliminated Making i Ma-king the Work the Most Important One of the Year Plo Grande Western I West-ern Earnings Maple Lenf Changes I I In the Union Pacific annual report I for the year ending June SO 1S99 some highly interesting engineering llgmcs of i arc given To meet the necessities o increasing I traffic and economical operation oper-ation expenditures amounting to 1395 139 wer authorized for shortening timeline time-line reducing grades and removing curvature on the Wyoming division r Up to June 150 1899 the sum of 717000 had been expended on these important Improvements I Contract for tho most Important change in tho main Hue was let March I 1 1S99 soon after which the work of gradlng and bridging the cutoff between be-tween Laramie I and Rawllns was started The now outoff is now practically prac-tically completed and in the opinion of I officials of the Union Paclllclt marks the most important physical Improvement Improve-ment completed last year The newly constructed line aggregating 31 miles in length takes the place of 6G3 miles of the former main line resulting in a saving of about nineteen miles or CO per cent In distance a reduction in the ruling maximum grade from seventy six feet to fortythree feet per mile and the elimination of the excessive curvature curva-ture which largely Increased the resistance re-sistance to the movement of trains The localionand length of the new line together with the reduction of distanceS distance-S gradients and curvatures Is as follows Howell to Hutton distance 1531 miles saving In distance 1 miles saving in curvature degrees 251 Lookout Look-out to Medicine Bow distance 23Sfi nines saving In distance 119S miles saving in gradient feet per mile 10 2G31 saving In curvature degrees Ilanna to Dana distance S13 miles saving In distance 387 miles j saving in gradient feet per mile J3 saving In I curvature degrees 92G The practical effect of these changes the report says will immediately become be-come apparent In a saving in the running run-ning time of all trains and particularly In an Increased tonnage of freight trains In both directions resulting in greatly increased efficiency and economy econ-omy of operation and largely reduced cost per train mile and per ton mile of trafllc moved over the distance on which the changes are made The company com-pany has also in hand other similar contracts for cutoffs In western Wyoming a Wyo-ming saving which will effect almost as great |