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Show I GRANDE ADDS TD ITSJUMT Order Is Placed tor Thirty tl-ditional tl-ditional Locomotives of Latest Typo. ENGINES WILL BE IN USE BY JI NE 30 Rolling .stock in All Departments Depart-ments to Be Materially Increased. The most important development In local lo-cal railroad circles yesterday was the announcement an-nouncement that ihe Rio Grande Western Intends making considerable additions to Its rolling stock and as a commencement has placed an order for thirty now loco-motlvea, loco-motlvea, The engines are to be of the latest and most Improved type and the contract specifies that they must be delivered de-livered for use by the end of the fiscal year, June 3u. The locomotives will be used principally on the western end of the road. More Freight and Passenger Cars. Tho announcement wa-s made by W. F Colton, cashier of the Rio Grande, who has Just returned from a trip to New York City Mr. Colton ha been j?one for a month and although his trip was not one of business, but rcall a vacation, he came in mtaot with the controlling olli-Clala olli-Clala of the road and wae Informed of proposed Improvements. It is the Inten-tlon Inten-tlon of tho management to increase ths Qulpment In all departments Large orders or-ders are to bo placed for passenger coaches and frelnhi .irH. all of the most modern make so that the road will bo In a position to handle the large Increase f traillo without dcla to cither the piisoenKcr or the shipper Keep Pace With the Times. The: Increase of equipment Is only In keeping with the xpirlt of progress and development Which is manifest on all sides. Mr. Colton states that the financiers finan-ciers of the East have Implicit confidence In the continued prosperity of all sec-tlons. sec-tlons. This active development haa probably prob-ably been more In evidence in the West th;in In other parts of the country, and to k'.i-p pace with that progress and give a complete and effu lent service, the In-creaae In-creaae of facilities for handling the pro-.' pro-.' I- of tho people and the, people themselves them-selves has become indispensable. |