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Show IMPROVEMENTS BY THERIQGRANDE Vice-President Schlacks and Other Ollicials Are in the City. THEIR PRESENCE GIVES RISE TO SPECULATION "Everything Is Yen Encouraging," Encourag-ing," Is Statement Made hy Mr. Schlacks. In their private cars at the Rio Grande depot In this city at present arc Vice-President Vice-President C. H Bchlacks, B J. ar.i chief engineer, and a. B Hughes, general traffic manager all of the Denver & Rio Grande The psrty arrived In Salt Lake on Tuesday nlRht and will remain until lonlnht when they will return to Denver Railroad Men Interested The prosenco of the officials here yva the nisi. of considerable speculation among railroad men rsterda 'Ihe fact that the Ttlo Grande lues BO many ex-ter(jyo ex-ter(jyo Improvements under contemplation contempla-tion for this city makes their visit of un-USUnl un-USUnl Importance, uul the further fact that the chief engineer of the system h one of tin party gives It additional Interest. In-terest. Just a General Trip. A representative of Tin- Tribune called upon vice-President Bchlacka l.t i Ing and was received bj that gentlemai with his usual courtesy When asked the object of the present vleli Mr Bchlacka replied: "We have Just come over on a general Irlp. We spend considerable time mi the road. We spent some time at Bunnyslde, where we had that had fire The hope to have repairs made rmd r sunn operations ovei there t a very earlv date. They are beginning to gel OUt considerable coke, and next week Will Fee tin Increase In the output. Depot to Be Built WMen asked when the. expected to begin be-gin their Improvements here, eapeclall) the erection of the depot oii Fourth West, between Second and Third South streets. Mr. Hchlacks'r. response whs tnat he had nothing i . . sa uhh i '-card to ! mattei at present. "Of course, the depot la to be built, but any discussion of the Improvement Im-provement would be premature at this time. But," he added, "business le very good with us, it la Rood throughout tii-entlre tii-entlre West and everything looks verj em ouraglng Consult the Attorneys. The officials made rt general Inspection of the yards and company's property here. They were also In consultation with the local attorneys for the corporation, corpora-tion, nnd spent some time with S V, ler-rah, ler-rah, assistant general freight agent. |