Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-06-03 | Page 4 | With the Railroaders

I WITH THE RAilROADERS 1 I RAILROAD CLOSES cLosI's EYES Ys IN N DEATH Sir Gillespie R Reid id Great Engineer Dies at atMon Mon Montreal treal l I MONTREAL Juno Tuno 3 Sir 3 Sir Reid a R railroad builder anti and capitalist died here today Ho was a nativo native of Scotland and mcl went in to Australia ho lie en engaged a ed in minin mining and public works Six years rears later biter ho bo camo to America taking up active wor work worl as a railway and bridge builder Ono of his first undertakings s was the construction of the tho international brid bridge brido o across the tha Niagara river near Buffalo Later ho he was in char charge e of tho the building budding of the brid bridge e between Montreal and Quebec on the tho Montreal Quebec Ottawa now a part of the Canadian Paci Pacific system In tho the United States he contracted for and built tho the Colorado river bl bridge d e at Austin Tex in in 1880 and all tho iron and masonry brid bridges es eson on the first miles of tho Southern Pacific railway west from San Antonio The International railway bridge across the Rio Grando was another of his undertakings undertakings un s and ho also built tho the Delaware Dela Delaware ware waro water gap ap bridge Mr Reids Reid's greatest work of construction from tho the physical l stan standpoint point was on tho the Canadian Canadian Cana Cana- dian than Pacific railway north of Lake Superior Superior Su Su- wh which h included Ii a tunnel feet ju In len length h through soli solid l granite He lie also built the Lachine brid bridge c three quarters of a a amil mil mile lon long across tho the St. St Lawrence In lu 1890 1590 Mr lr Reid began tho the building for the New government of Halls Hall's Bay railroad and upon its completion corn com in 1890 he took up the building of tho western railway from Halls Hall's Bay Day to Port au ass assuming ming its ib operation operation operation opera opera- tion when the work was completed Sir Robert was also lar largely ely interested in in New coal land lana develop develop- ments He Ho had been Reen called tho the greatest great est benefactor of N New cw