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Show RAILROAD BUILDING. Colorado Wants Two or Three Thousand Utah Laborers. We clip the following from the Herald. Mr. Martin Florida returned from Colorado last evening, where as our readers are aware, he spent some days ago, with the view of taking a contract for grading on the Denver and Rio Grande Railway. Mr. Omar Call accompanied him on this trip, and will arrive tonight, having stopped a day at Cheyenne on business. Mr. F. is highly pleased with the success of his visit. The railroad is completed and in operation for a distance of 350 miles from Denver, and probably 100 miles from Channa to Ananias City are ready for the graders. It is on that section that Florida and Call propose to work, and they return to Utah for men and teams. They went over sixty miles of the route, and learned that grading could be worked advantageously all winter. The San Juan Valley, through which the road is to run, is well watered and abundantly supplied with grass. The gentlemen have with them the written guarantee of the company to furnish employment for 1,000 men and 300 teams for a period of eight months, and the verbal promise to find work for double that number of men and teams. It is also said by the company's officials that they will probably be engaged in railroad construction for two years, in which event employment would be given to the Utah outfits during that time. Mr. Florida hopes to employ the necessary men and teams in this territory, and at once return to Colorado and begin work. He proposes to either pay day wages or give contracts as parties prefer. Mr. Call remained at Cheyenne to look at a band of 100 span of mules, which were for sale, and if terms can be made for them, will buy and send the outfit down the road. Mr. Florida says the railroad company will convey laborers from Ogden to the terminus of the Denver and Rio Grande for $10 each, payable in installments. The gentleman speaks highly of the manner in which he was treated by the railroad officials, who cheerfully furnished him the desired information, and expressed pleasure at the prospect of employing a large party of laborers from Utah. |