| Show PLAFORNEW PLANT I Ito I Rio Grande Western Ready to Erect Shops DETAILS OF ARRANGEMENTS I r The PowerHouse Will Be West of j Sixth West Street the New Machine Ma-chine Shop Will Be Extension of Present Shop to the West With Twelve Tracks Entering It and a Transfer Table Big 100Ton Crane Over AllBad Wreck at Butts Combine TalkNotes S I The plans for the new shops at the Rio Grande Western mechanical plant I In this city have been prepared In the office of Chief Engineer E J Yard and outline of ground plan with front elevation ele-vation of the powerhouse are pictured herewith Three new buildings are to be erected at once They are the powerhouse I pow-erhouse the new machine shop and the new section for the roundhouse Most l of the details of the mammoth Improve month have ready been given The I new machine shop will be an extension tothe west of the present shops It r will be 187x111 feet with structural Iron roof and glass skylight deck A 100ton traveling crane will move from cast to west over all the twelve tracks In this shop It will be capable of lifting lift-ing a loQomotlve bodily In the other part of the shop vxjll be a tenton crane The shops will be divided Into erecting and machine shops while the present buildings will be used for I blacksmith and boiler work The powerhouse will be erected west of Sixth West street and will be the most modern plant ofthe kind In the l West The roundhouse Is In line with charge all the Japs and Chinese and replace them with white men This II aftects the Rio Grande Western the Southern Pacific the Oregon Short Line and the Union Pacific I Gould on K C Southern 1 New York Feb 13The Evening Post says It has just developed with the Issue for February of an otllclal railway guide that George Gould has 1 boeti elected vicepresident of the Kansas Kan-sas City Southern railway I The election Is said to date back to 1 the time when Stuart Kennett was made president but has never been announced an-nounced by the directors An Alaska Consolidation Chicago Feb 13The announcement of the absorption of the Dominion Development De-velopment company by the White Pass Yukon Railroad company was made I here today the deal having been consummated con-summated In London England yesterday i yester-day The consideration paid the former for-mer company was not made known The I While Pass Yukon company operates a railway between Skaguay and Whitehorse White-Horse while the purchased company has a line of steamers In operation on Lake Bennett and the Yukon river between be-tween White Horse and Dawson City By this combination It Is said territory terri-tory will be developed more fully and freight rates reduced Kooser Took Hold The Missouri Paclllc and Denver I Rio Grande local offices are adjoining In the Dooly block When General Agent II B Kooser of the former line read yesterdays Tribune he hurried down town and went Into the office of General Agent B F Nevlns of the Den vcr Rio Grande i Wheres Nevlns he asked one of I the boys and when told he was out Kooser went on Tell him to be here I earlier after this and say I will be into In-to check hm up right after lunch I I I i S Ill e r = 1 have also determined to cut an arch In I tho wall and have one ofllcc around I hero Then he went out Railroad Notes Uneasy lies the head of a 1901 railroad I rail-road man I George Gould held the center of the i stage yesterday In the railroad drama There Is no truth In the story printed I In the Herald and News that the Short Line will deliver a large tonnage of coal dally to the Southern Pacific from the Kemmcrcr or Dlamondvllle mines The Short Line rates are prohibitive owing to the long haul The Union Pa I J i oufl f1p t > Er Ine 1 sfOR t < > j r > > l 1 I 6 rd Wes 6tiW J > I L5I 1 t r 1 I t v I d > tf aJ 1 t 10 r r I t I 1 the present one an opening to be left at north and south for tracks to the turntable The car and paint shops south of the roundhouse are also to be enlarged and the whole will create a splendid plant for the railroad company com-pany |
