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Show lUCfll OF FGOT SPUR HETEMD Many Details Remain to Be Worked Out Before Any Decision Is Made. "Where the railroad spur will be located that is to connect Fort Pons, las with the Park City branch of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad remains to be determined when a location survey is made, after the construction battalion of the Seventieth Seven-tieth railway engineers is organized at . the post. It is explained by military officers that many details remain to be worked out before any start can ho made on the new railroad, and that until these details are worked out and receive ofticial approval by the war department no one knows where the spur will be located or when actual construction will commence. Under the order directing the formation forma-tion of a construction battalion of engineers engi-neers at the fort, this battalion must be recruited, officered and completely organized organ-ized before any other steps can be taken. When this has been completed, the commanding' of liver of the battalion, in conjunction with the post commander and post quartermaster, will look over proposed pro-posed routes for the spur. Then the engineers will have to make a location survey. From the data thus secured an estimate of the exact cost and the materials ma-terials needed will have to be compiled. This must then he sent to the quartermaster-general's department for examination exam-ination and approval. If the location and plans are approved, an appropriation of money sufficient to cover cost of materials materi-als and construction must be made. Materials Ma-terials for construction must then be gathered together and sent here by the chief of military railways. When this has been done, then construction work may be commenced. . Several surveys of proposed routes have been made by the railroad company in past years, but all of these call for some heavy cuts, fills and trestle construction which are expensive. It is proposed to have a new survey made by the engineers engi-neers themselves, with a view to eliminating elim-inating all the cuts, tills and trestle work possible, even if a more circuitous route has to be followed. |