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Show 11 ft 1 LT1H IT oiCE I First Unit Will Be From H Helper to Salt Lake City at Cost of $3,000,- H 0 0 0; Utah Utilities fH Company Will Do the Work and Spend Vast Sum on Power Devei opment. 1 ! UTAH COPPER'S ROAD INCLUDED Bingham and Garfield and All Plants of Cop' per Company Will Be Electrified; Big Steam Generating Plant to Berf Constructed in Utah. " H .Special to Tho Trlbuno. DENVER, Nov. 10". E. L. Brown, vice president of the Denver & H Hio Grande railroad, announced. i upon his return from New York today that the first steps in electrifying tho j entire Donvor & Rio Grande system arc to Io taken at once. That means that ' millions of dollars in improve- 'H mcnts are io "bo expended end that the , Denver & Rio Grande is to becomo tho j first road through the Rocky mouu- j jH tains to be operated by electricity. j "The first unit to be electrified will be from Helper, Utah, to Salt Lako I City, a distance of I2L miles," said Mr. Brown. "This work will cost j $3,000,000. Utah Work Begins Now. ' "The second unit to bo constructed rf will be over Tennessee Pass and wilt H involve the electrification of the liuu ) from Salida to Minturn. Tho Utah ' work will be commenced at once and wo expect to have it completed Iby July 1, I9Kt." fH These improvements are in addition H to tho construction of a ucw double- jJ track lino over Soldier Summit and ( tho standardizing of tho Salida- J Montrose lino, for which ait expeudi- tare of $5,500,000 was authorized by ' the directors last week. General Electric's Work. "The electrification work is to be dona H by the General Electric company," con- 'H tinned Mr. Urown. "That company's H representative is now on the lino and a H full corps of engineers will be with hJrn H in a short time. Wo expect4 to have the H Utah unit finished by tho time tho detour over Soldier .Summit, which will be a H part of the line. Is completed." H The Utah Utilities company, which wa? ! H organised a few weeks ago to merge and j H operalo a number of power planti in H Colorado and Utah, and Is owned by th ill Utah Securities company, capitalized, for ll ?r.:',000.000, is to furnlBh tho power for fl tho Utah tl Power Development. il The big power concern. are preparing ll to spend between $5,000,000 and 10,000.- 000 dining 1913, and a part of this de- fl velopmunL waa on account of tho Denver & Rio Grande electrification. H "When asked if thl.i work waa part ot -H a plan to electrify tho entire Denver & H Rio Grande system, ho replied: H "That Is what it in coming' to." H The improvements to be undertaken liv the Denver & IUo Grande, the Central H Colorado Power company und tho Utah rH Utilities company will aggregate between $20,000,000 and ?li5,000,000, most of .which r H will be expended during If 13 and KM. ' H These include $3,000,000 for doublo track H i detour over Soldier .Summit, $;;,000,000 . Il for electrifying the Utah unit, R&OO.OOO i kH for stiindaidlzlng the Kullda-Moniiouc ' jH line. $".00(,000 for electrifying Tennessee , 1H pass, and $S,OOC,000 by tho Utah Power H company, which will electrify thn Blng- H ham & Gurllcld railroad and all thd'pluntti iH of tho Utah Cupper company. H Generating Plant. ' Thcru 'will he a big- steam generating plant constructed in Utah, to be used Tor H emergencies on tho Denver & Itlo Grande. M Tho question of electrifying Soldier Sum- mit was taken up by tho Denver &. Wo 'il Grande last summer. Tho Tellurldo 1 Power company, a Colorado corporation, dl was expected to furuluh the power. i'I A few weeks ago Us stockholders os-- j jH derud tho company dissolved and Joined ' H :i a '2,01)0,000 merger of plants in Colo- I1' 1 rado, I'tah and Idaho. Thbj now eom- pauy cMJwto to pcixl millions for do- M (Oontiuuod on Pago Ton-. . V 'M ENII i GRIDE WILL 8E ELECTRIFIED (Continued, from Page One.) velopment purposes and will lio able to furnish power lo tlio railroad at a low co.jL NUNN E'NJOINS 1 TELLUR1DE SALE Special to Tho Tribune. D13NVJ5R, Nov. Cliaifc-inp conspiracy conspir-acy and an attempt lo defraud (ho minority mi-nority stockholders of approximately 51,000.001). b. O. Xunn today uppllcd for, and late loniglit secured, a temporary In-junelion In-junelion Jn the district court here halting halt-ing tho projiosed salo of tho Tellurlde Power company, which was (scheduled to tnko placo at Tellurlde, Colo., next Holiday Holi-day forenoon. T,hc proposed sale price, It Is asserted by Nuim, who was formerly president of the company and Is now a minority stockholder, stock-holder, is 5G.C00.O00. The property, according ac-cording to his statements in court, is worth fully $10,000,000. Tin asserts that the Electric Bond &. Shares company of New York, together with St. Louis and Cincinnati capitalists, havo conspired to-Kclher to-Kclher to purchase tho properlv at $ 1.000.000 less than its value, after which they propose to merse it with Utah and Idaho plants lo furnish electric powor to the Denver & J?lo Grande railroad for the electrification of its entire Hue from Denver Den-ver to S:ilt bake City, and also to furnish fur-nish numerous cities, towns and industries indus-tries in the three slates with llsht and power. GREAT INCREASE IN TRAFFIC IN UTAH Special to The Trihune. NKW YORK, Nov. lG.Presidcnt B. F. Bush of the Denver fc Tlio Grande, in a letter dealing with KIo Grande "Western first consolidated mortgage ! per cent honds, comments, In part, as follows on the growth of traffic in the territory served by the "Denver & Rio Grand In Colorado and Utah: "Tlio territory served by the Denver Rio Grande railroad in Colorado and Utah, and particularly that .section served by the former Rio Grande "Western. "West-ern. Is unusually rich in natural resources re-sources and rapidly increasing in wealth and populaton. Dulng the past four years the revenue from tho products of agriculture Increased over 100 per cent. From 1905 to Juno 20. 1!U2, the traffic of the company from products of agriculture Increased 85. (J per cent; from mlnou, 71J-1 per cent and from manufacturing and general traffic, SI per cent." |