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Show DTAH FIRM SECURES P. RAILROAD CONTRACT -. - - . DENVER, Colo.. May 15 The Denver A Rio Grande has let contracts for tha construction con-struction of the first twenty-five miles of tK Rio Grande A Southwestern railroad. Ij Bros. A Mendenhall of Sprlngvllle, X wah. were awarded the contract The contract for seventeen additional miles will be let at an early date. The caet of the first section will be in the i . neighborhood of gTSO.OOfc The Rio Grande & Southwestern was recently incorporated incorpor-ated for the purpoaa of building' forty miles from Lumberton, on tha main line between Antonito and Duranro, through toe Jlcarilla reservation in New Mexico to- Galltnis, N. M. It will open up a vast timber country. t ' |