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Show INTERURBAN SYSTEM TO PAYSON ASSURED; TWO LINES PLANNED During the last few months .thero has been much talk of an Intcrurban line botwen Rait Lake City and Payson. Two companies have como into the field during dur-ing that time, and both havo obtained franchises In Provo and other places. As there Is little reason to believe that both lines will be speedily completed. It Bcems to be a. race as to which will gain the eovctcd territory first. The Salt Lake & Utah railway In a Tdalnc corporation, and is backed by A. J. Orein & Co. of this city. The other proposed road accm to be a matter mat-ter of mystery, although it Is stated that Thaddcus S. Lane and John MacGlnnis, both of Butte, aro behind It. Both nro-posc nro-posc to go over about the same line, and tho general route to bo taken Includes In-cludes Salt Lake City, West Jordan, Rlvcrton. Lchi. American Fori;. Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove, Linden, Sharon. Provo. SprlnK'M- Spanish Fork. Salem and Pa3'Eou. n total distance of about sixty-fhe sixty-fhe mllc3. Work Is Begun. Work on tho Salt Lake & Utah railway rail-way includes about two mllea. of grading grad-ing in Provo, and tho company haa started grading In this city. Two surveying sur-veying parties are in the field, nnd It ia intended to send out a third In tho ntar fuOlre. Rally and ties for about thirty-five thirty-five mllea of track have been ordered and should be here early next month. In discussing tho situation a few daye ago. a member of tho Orem company stated that the completion of the line would be effected early In the spring of 10H, and that It would cost approximately approxi-mately 53.000,000. It was also stated that a traffic agreement agree-ment had been entered into by tho managements man-agements of the Salt Lake & Utah and tne Salt Lako & Ogden companies, whereby Joint terminal facilities would be arranged and a union interurban station built in this city. Tt Is planned to. handle both freight and passengers and to build up an intcrurban system that will eventually reach practically all of tho northern part of tho state. t Field Is Promising. The promoters of the proposed roads do not boast, but oak for time In which to do the work. W2th tho promising ! field, however. It Is evident that at least one of the roads will be completed In tho near future, and that some cort of ronuctions will be made with the Bamberger Bam-berger line and with tho Eccles lines at Og'H-n. by which a network of intcrurban cluclrlc lines will bo formed. II was announced a for du.ys :ijzo that a fifty-year power contract had been arranged by the Salt Lake & Utah Railway Rail-way company and tho Utah Power & Light company. be provided for expeditiously handling any volume of traffic offered. In addition addi-tion to t his. plans are being formulated and undoubtedly will he approved for sreatly Improving the line between iiilstlo and Salt Lake City, so that rhe fullest advantage may bo taken of tho Improvements west of Thistle. Marshall Pass Standard. In Colorado work on the standard ; gauging of the Marshall pa eh line between be-tween Sallda and Montrose, a distance of 13C mllcf. was authorized. An soon as tho weather permits In tho spring, this work will be prosecuted vigorously, to tho end that this narrow gauge main lino may bo converted to standard gauge In time to provide Improved transportation transporta-tion facilities by tho fall of 1013 for tho agricultural, horticultural, mining and other resources tributary to that line, as well as providing a second lino through tho Rocky mountains to handle transcontinental transcon-tinental traffic. j When this work is completed the Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande will havo two standard stand-ard gauge lines across the state of Colorado Colo-rado one by way of Tennessee pass and Glenwood Springs and tho other by way of Marshall pass, Montrose and tire Black canyon. Tho second standard gauge line through tho mountains will not 'only facilitate the handling of freight and puaBengor traffic, but also it will Insure at least one open line at ull times through tho Colorado Ruckles. Attractive Attrac-tive an Is tho Glenwood Sprlngn-Tonnes-Boe pass routo from a scenic standpoint, still more so will bo tho now standard gaugo line over Marshall paso and through tho Black canyon of tho Gunnison. Gunni-son. Use Electric Power. For months during tho past year electrical elec-trical englnoera were working on the problem of operating freight and passenger passen-ger trains on certain portions of the main line by electricity Instead of by steam, and their Investigations resulted : so satisfactorily that In November. 1012. announcement waa made by Vice President Presi-dent Brown of the intention of tho company com-pany to electrify the lino over Soldier Summit in Utah and Tennessee pass In Colorado, where the line crosses the continental divide. Tho first unit to be clectriflod will be from Helper to Salt Lake City, a dlstanco of 114 miles, and the second unit will involve tho electrifica tion of the lino between Sallda and Minium. Min-ium. Colo., a distance of olghty-scvon miles. Tho Utah Utilities company, it Is expected, will furnish tho power for the Utah lines, and tho Central Colorado Power company will nupply that for Colorado. In addition to the physical Improvements Improve-ments as outlined above, tho company purchaced during the past year thlrty-alx thlrty-alx new and thoroughly modern locomotives locomo-tives six for pasecnger tcrvice and thirty for freight cer.ice. Contract has also teen made for 1200 freight cars of various kinds. The locomotive and freight equipment are now being delivered. deliv-ered. Has Large Payroll. During the year the Denver k. Rio Grande har. carried an average of 12,000 employees, with an average payroll of mor than Jl.000.000 per month. The vast Improvements under way and contemplated are beincr mado not only to take care of the rapidly Increasing |
