Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-05-07 | Page 2 | Double-Tracking Southern Pacific

HUE-TRACKING SOUTH PACIFIC: For tho purpose of closing up tho various va-rious details Incident to the letting of contracts for tho beginning of the double-tracking double-tracking of the Southern Pacific railroad from Ogden west to Ilcno, Nov., William Hood, chief engineer of the road. Is hero in consultation- with W. II. Bancroft, vlco president and general manager. It was stated yesterday afternoon by Frcdoriek Knickerbocker. Mr. Bancroft's assistant, that within tho next ton days or two weeks contracts would bo let for tho double-tracking of about thirty-five miles of the lino from Ogden westward, tho work to begin Immediately after the signing of the contracts and to be pushed with all rcasonablo diligence. This is only the first step in the carrying car-rying out of the gigantic plan for tho double-tracking of the western portion of tho HarrJman system, which Is to be accomplished ac-complished within tho next five years and which, as heretofore pointed out, will bring to Salt Lake City many millions of dollars, both In the discharge of payrolls pay-rolls and the money expended for supplies. sup-plies. Mr. Knickerbocker said yesterday that it was the expectation of the chief officials of-ficials of the road that the double-tracking would be completed at tho rale of abouL 100 miles per year, thus requiring requir-ing five years for tho work from Ogden to Reno, The work is one that onco under way will give continuous employment employ-ment to more than a thousand men and will thus greatly stimulate Industrial activity ac-tivity in the west.