Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-05-07 | Page 3 | Army of Men Will Soon Begin Work on Salt Lake End of Moffat Road

QLZ GP'i'.lBIT VILLCCOH BEGIN :73:.f v. ON SALT LAKE-END OF MG&AT ; Enjinecrs Will Reach Here in Ten Days, and Ccn- tracts Will Be Let Without With-out Delay. . "Within two weeks A. C. Ridfcreway, superintendent of the Denver, North-, North-, western Pacific railroad, better known as the Moffat road, will be In Salt Lake with a corps of engineers . to commence work on the 'new line. "Within, thirty" days contracts for grading: ' and construction will ba let and, within sixty days fully 2000 men will be employed. "The work will be .pushed as rapidly rap-idly as possible. Eery man that can be employed will be put to work and what has been done at the Denver end of the line will be duplicated here. "The financing of the company has been accomDlished. the money is de- POsMed with a trust company and everything ev-erything is in readiness to push the toA directly through from Salt Lake tc Denver." "These are direct statements made by Dvid H. Moffat in New York a few ' da jvj ago to 6. S. Holmes, proprietor of the Knutsford hotel and a heavy stockholder in the Denver, Northwestern Northwest-ern & Pacific, who arrived here yesterday. yes-terday. Mr. Holmes had a long talk with Mr. Moffat-In New York and another one - with Superintendent Ridgeway at Denver. In discussing the work now under way - and the Immediate plans for construction, construc-tion, Mr. Ridgeway said: ' "We have been endeavoring for some time to get the work ' commenced at the Salt Lake end of the road, but have been so busy attending' to work at the Denver end that we were unable to get to Salt Lake. "We now have all the men we can get in the vicinity of Denver at work, about 3000, and the grading is going ahead In fine style. The snow on the mountains between Suit Lake and Denver, has greatly delayed operations but the advancement of the season has made it possible for us to now push the work at every point to which we can get material. I expect. to be in Salt Lake with an engineering party by May 15th and possibly sooner and It , is the wish of Mr. Moffat that, we lose not a minute in forwarding the work. I will remain there until contracts have een let and the work is well un-Cer un-Cer way." '