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Show III GHAHOE IS Green River Is to Be Made Ifcad-quarlers Ifcad-quarlers for Second THIS WJLL PRACTICALLY ' WIPE HELPER OFF MAP Old Palmer Hotel at Green River to House Officials of the Division. I Helper, .is a division point on tlio TJio Grande system, will soon be a litis-been. litis-been. In fact, in so far as being nu important station, it will simply bo wiped oli the map. The handsome $25,-000 $25,-000 building for the Railroad Y ounce Itfeu-'s Christian association will be removed to Green River, 110 round houses will be dismantled, and the railroad rail-road people who now make Helper Tbeir home will move elsewhere. For two weeks last past, two private j mrs, carrying officials of the Rio j Grande, have beeu visiting at several I points on the system between Grand I .luuctiori and Oglen, considering tho question of division terminals. At present there are three passenger train divisions on I ho main line between Graud Junction and Ogdcn. The mileage of these divisions follow: Osdcn to Salt Lake .' 3G.9 Sa.lt Lake to Helper 114. d. Helper to Grand Junction .1(0.0 Will Save Expense. ; Under the sixteen-hour law pnssed bv tho fifty-ninth Congress, and which was approved March -1. 1007, the arrangement ar-rangement of division poiuts makes the operation on rho Rio Grande difficult, and in fact more expensive than it Hhoiild. To save expense and to make rho - WilTcr of operating easier, it has been derided to change division points. T'ndcr 1 ho new doal the division di-vision points will be Grand Junction, Green River. Colton. Sail Lxke. Ogden.-T'nder Ogden.-T'nder this the mileage will be as follow.: fol-low.: Or.nitl '.luneUon to Green River 10n.fi rjreon Btver ti.. Colton I'S.a 'olton 10 Salt Lake Hfi." all .Lake to Opdcn "6.9 .This, it will bo seen, equalizes the runs' and will make it so that pas-srnger pas-srnger and freight runs will be the same, and will also make the operating ciC trains much easier. Heretofore Green River has been a point where there wns a small roundhouse, and where helper engines were stalled to help freight grains over Thompson hill. Change- in Districts. The districts will, under the new arraugement. be divided so as to extend ex-tend from Grand Junction to Colton, '.nd from Colton to Ogdon, this for the t'onvenieiiee of the dispatchers aud triek operators. This will leave . I,hc dispatchers for the first district the i hcf. his- assistant and nine trick mon mi Lake." and a ehicf dispatcher and tho trick men who now aro at Helper will be transferred to Green River. Li is understood that the dining car service lias been notified to vacate tho hotel a I Green River at the earliest date practicable, as that building is to be remodeled and will be used for division di-vision headquarters. This hotel, by the way, tho Palmer House is tho name, was built away back in tho early eighties. At that timo it was the finest hotel between Chicago and tho Pacific coast. Tt was built by tho old Rio Grande Western when the road, as also the Denver v Rio Grande, was a narrow nar-row gauge line. It was ono of tho best-known hotels in the country of later years. Since dining car service was instituted on tho Rio Grande system sys-tem the building has been allowed to run down, but it lias always been used as a hotel and eating station. Big Hotel at Green Eivor. To care for tho railroad peoplo who will of necessity be compelled to remove re-move to Green "River, the Commercial club of that city has guaranteed to build a new forty-room hotel to cost $25,000, work to begin at once. The railway company will also begin the construction of an eating-house similar to tho one now at Helper, and as said, the Y. M. C. A. reading room uow at Helper will be torn down and removed to Green River. 1 The .work oC building a round-house at Green River is to 1)0 pushed to completion. com-pletion. This-move upon the part of the Rio Grande shows conclusively that the Sa-lina Sa-lina cut otf avi 1 1 be built at an early date, and when this is completed it will end the haul over Soldier Summit, now .the heaviest railroad grado in the United States. . |