Show broad digging dinging di nging A large lorce of men were at work on on the kio grande western southern extension from thistle to salina all trains on the branch were stopped for the day and the work was completed alie denver hews has the following to aay of the work of broad guaring which has ben done by the kio grande western with the present week theS work of the branches of the rio grande western will havo been com oleter and in announcing tho fact to a heuft reporter made a pioneer plea for the kindly remembrance of the narrow guage system as the one which laid alie foundation of danvers Den vers prosperity and contributed BO much to the crowth and development of the state lie is liht in what he saye denver pacific and kansas pacific roads idere completed twenty one years ago no one believed that it would be possible to run a standard guage in the mountains but modern engineering has overcome all imaginary obstacles and made abe for the broad guage train the narrow gnage led the way however the 1 country created abe tr effis ard ren dered the standard elage in f a few years they will disappear entirely but let them ever be remembered as a pioneer factor in colorados progress |