Show RIO 1110 GRANDE READY TO IMPROVE ROAD AT COST Of MILLIONS Official or of an appropriation Hon tion of or t for Or r tho the Improving of or the Denver Den Rio Grande system stein In lii Utah and Colorado ho has hIlS been biCa rec received b by local of officers l. l cers cern of ot the company Of or this va st sum between two twenty to millions a and d three millions of will b bo sIJ spent t In electrifying ln parts or of the main line and the balance will bo ho housed used for or the tIme construction o of ot the detour truck track of or th ro road d from Tucker to Soldier summit In U U Uh Ah h in order to reduce th time thu 1 from 4 per pel cent cont to a less than U per cent w The contract tor for this part of or the Work was let Monday last lat to hiti tl i Utah Construction Con Can company aid It i It Is expected tJ that thaI at work c early curlY next wee t j Th Tho fr first i io o of o the time c electrification work to be bc undertaken b by the thc company in will Ill bo be between be be- tween Salt jail Lak City and Helper a distance this dis I t tance nce of 11 t miles According to the information recel received d I from E. E L. L Brown vice president of or tho time I road who wilt will be bc In charge of or the vast t Improvements ro planned b by the road roud It 11 IH is expected that contracts for 01 or this ora willbe will wilt willbo be bo let within the tho next week or ten days and nd that thal the Job will bo be completed ed at al about tho the same samo as the Soldier summit summit sum sum- mit mil detour tracks track which are expected ted to to bo be ready reldy to turn tin over O to the time operating department of the road by Jul July 1 next A A. representative e of or the General Klec- Klec trio company Is la now going over the route between Salt Snit Lako City and Helper and It Is 11 expected that within tho next day or 01 two he lie will be joined b by a tL number of oC expert engineers ot tho the company Time Till second piece of or electrifying work ork which the road will undertake will wUl be ber r from om Salida to Minturn In Colorado over rr I li Is known a as the Tennessee Pass di di vision The Tho contracts for fOI this work ork will likely not be belet let before next t According to the tho Information received from ruin Pre President Brown Blon It Is time the Intention of the company company- tu to I spend the entire 2 2 23 within the tho next two years ears A A. u. u Apperson general l superintendent for the Utah cs of or tho the company und timid S. S V. V Derrah assistant general freight ht agent are arc Jm Hn an inspection trip over a part of ot the lino between here and the UlC Utah Colorado line Ine tolla today |