Show iAN ARE COMPLETED Work Soon to Begin on Rio Grande Western Shops DETAILS OF IMPROVEMENTS I I F Location oC Various Buildings and the Big PowerHouse Which Is to Bo a Leading Feature Roundhonsa and Car Shop Additions TJnion Pacific Pa-cific Lets Contract for the Athol Hill CutOff Below Cheyenne Westerns Gross Shows Light Increase In-crease for the Last Week Notes Mow that the Council has granted the Rio Grande Western the franchises fran-chises asked for work will be commenced com-menced at once on the big electrical powerhouse and shop plant at Salt Lake The plans have been finished for some time and the needed appropriations appropria-tions have only beenjhcld back await ing the Councils action The main features fea-tures pf the plan are the erection of the powerhouse the substitution of electricity for steam the extension of tim present machine shop and the building of new car shops The power is to be generated at the powerhouse and transmitted all over the yard and shops through separate dynamos The present machine shop will be extended ex-tended across Sixth West street and west of Sixth West street will be erected erect-ed the powerhouse The exact location loca-tion of the powerhouse will be In the northeast corner of block 35 near Third South and Sixth West The car shops In block 23 arc to be increased by one entirely new shop and the widening of the paint shop The wood working shop ia to b6 further modernized The roundhouse which is i now a halfcircle will be built clear around to form a complete circle and all the adjacent shops are to be arranged ar-ranged In accordance with the larger ones and the whole plant built and painted alike The capacity In all the shops will bo mare than doubled it being the companys Intention to build for ton years In the future Workmen have been engaged for some time in completing the preliminaries prelimi-naries Near the tuintable a wheel drop pit has already been finished and oxer beyond the car works the ma terial yard for the new plant 8 as been finished filled In and fenced The work will go on briskly and just as soon as the ordinance is signed by the Mayor contracts will be let for the powerhouse and larger structures It may be possible to have the plant completed by September |