Show C S PLANS Half Million to Bo Spent for Wyoming Wyo-ming Improvements TRIBUTE SPECIALS Cheyenne Wyo April 19It Is reported re-ported here upon good authority that the Colorado < Southern has set aside 500000 for improvements to Its Wyoming Wyo-ming division Including an extension oC thirteen miles to Douglas The road bud Is to be ballasted and widened l and bridges are to he replaced by structures more capable of sustaining the weight I of the heavy ore trains en route from Sunrise to the Pueblo furnaces of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company The necessity of better bridges was made manifest last winter when several structures weakened by heavy trains I were washed away during sudden I thaws and the resulting freshets The Wyoming branch of the Colorado 1 Southern IB assuming an Important position In railroad speculation because It is the only line running northward toward the rapidly growing northern I ft counties of this State and Montana f Chief Engineer Egan of the Colorado Southern will he In Cheyenne next eck It Is said for the purpose of making I mak-ing an examination of this end of the grade of the old Colorado Central which at one limy connected Cheyenne with Denver Tho Colorado Southern South-ern has no connection between its miiln system and the Wyoming branch and for several yeuis has been speculating on the wisdom of building a line from Fort Collins to Cheyenne over the abandoned aban-doned Colorado Central grade All business bus-iness now bundled by the Wyoming branch has to be turned over to the Tnlon Pacific at Cheyenne and by that toad handled as far as Denver Jiy building a fortymile connecting link between Fort Collins and Cheyenne the Colorado Southern could make a through hall General I Manager Herbert of the Colorado Colo-rado it Southern while In Cheyenne ic tntly said that while he could not make such an assort ion officially he was certain that the Colorado fr Southern South-ern would extend from Orln Junction to Douglas and fiom that point through Converse Crook and Weston vountlt9 to a junction with the Chicago Xorthweslom probably at Deadwood Dead-wood S D |