Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-11-14 | Page 1 | D. & R. G. to Spend More Money in Utah

0, a 1 1 TO SPEiD MORE Wl ITU Will Immediately Build Double Dou-ble Track Detour Around Soldier Summit. 35. h. Brown, vice president of tho Denver & l?io Grnndo railroad, was notified no-tified yesterdaj- ul'leruoon by wire that money had boon appropriated for the immediate construction ' of a double-track double-track detour around Soldier Summit. Tho word cunio from B. F. Bush, president pres-ident of 'the road, after six months have been spent, by engineers of the company in ascertaining- tho best pos-siblo pos-siblo lino for the road. The line between Tucker and Soldier Summit at prcaent is ecveii miles in length and has a grade of -l por cent. Tho detour will reduce the grade to 2 per cent and in order to do this it will bo necessary to make the lino about, fifteen mile? in length. This -will bo done at a cost of. approximately three million dollars. Contractors a i t; already figuriuc: on the work 'ami the bulk of it probably will be contracted within tho next ten da3jj, to be completed by July, 1913. Tho new line will require some expensive expen-sive bridges that will bc built of steel and concrete and hundreds of men will bo employed on the work. The new double tracks will be constructed with ninety-pound" Ktcel and the maximum curvature will be nine degrees. The heavy expenditure is deemed necessary nec-essary in order to care for the immense and crowing traffic of the Denver & Rio Grande and Ihe Western Pacific. Tho OcLobor earnings of tho .two roads this year arc ;?2.r7,700. This is an inornate of $275.-l00 or 12 per cent over October of last your. It vn4 also announced yesterday that Hip work of standardizing tho "Mr-jball "Mr-jball Fas rot-to would be started 6o6n.