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Show MR. RIDGEWAY IN SALT LAKE Will Arrange Tracks to New Smelter. New Roads Will Ultimately Handle Traffic From Plant. Western Pacific and Salt Lake Route Pass Site of Coming Works. The Salt Like Route, already built, and lln- Wesfrn Paclfie, whose building Is to begin In the Immediate future, will hae tho smelter truffle In this section, and at this time arrangements for trackage to handle that trafllc are In progress Confirmation Con-firmation of the statement In yesterday morning's Tribune to the effect that the American Smelting and Refining company com-pany will BOOH begin bn-aklng ground for its new plant conies In the shape of a visit from torn'. , Manager Kldfcewav of tlo. Rio Grande. Mr Rldgeway arrived on No. 3 last evening. He Is here to see to trackage arrang. un-nt - to th- site of this new smelter. The new tracks will run to the nut--, on the lake shore, several miles west of the city The building of this new smeller puts a new phase On the railroad end of tho smelter business. Heretofore the IUo Grande and ti Oregon Short Pine handled han-dled the smelter traffic When the Salt Lake Route was In process of arrangement arrange-ment the Oregon Short Line reserved Its tratk to Sandy to handle this freight Now the smeller trafric. or at least mm h of It, will come from a point right on the new line Meantime trackage arrangements w-in be made for the Rio Grande, and It Is stated by railroad mi n that it is not outside out-side the limits of probability that the present work In the Rio Grande yard- toward to-ward the Western Pacific Is being done with a view to getting the needed spur With the completion of the Western Pa-cllb; Pa-cllb; this would put the smelter tra.k right on its llhe In other words, both the new roads, the one already built and the one about to be constructed, would handle the smelter shipment-;. Railroad men have taken no little interest in-terest In this part of the situation What they have suid has been partly speculation. specula-tion. But this much can be taken as authentic. au-thentic. Mr Rldgeway has rome here to ee about new trackage a rrangements to the site of the new smelter, and these new trackage arrangements Include truck to the flats on the shores of Great Salt lake. |
