Show RIO GRANDE SHOPS Plans Are Ready and Work Will Be Pushed at Once Here and in Denver Work on tho new shop for the Rio Grnndo road Is liable to be commenced at any time F Mertzhclmcr superlntondunt of motive power and machinery for the company wan In the city yesterday > and left last evening to continue n tour of Inspection In-spection which brought him to this city Before his departure he said regarding the proposed shops The contracts for the new shops arc liable to be given r out any day now The plans and specifications are ready and arc In tho hnmls of thfl chief engineer Just when the work IB likely to begin Is something some-thing that 1 am unable to any but we shall start tho shops hcrq and at Denver at the same limo The machinery to be installed will bo of tho very latest Each machine will be run by a separate motor like the machinery of tho present day In nil modern shops The Improvement has boon needed for several t years and no one has boon better aware of It than the officials offi-cials of the road but oncthln mind another an-other han conspired to rctirird tho work The matter Is now In the hands of the chief engineer who will give out the contracts con-tracts Wo oxpect to put dp a building nnd equip it so that It will meet tho requirements re-quirements of the road for some years to come Superintendent Mertzhelrner said also that he expects to make more frequent fre-quent trips to this city than formerly |