Show GRADE STARTED TOWARDS UTAH grading has been started on the grand river meeker and salt lafeat a point on the denver and rio grande three miles of newcastle colo the contract for the entire line of three hundred miles has been taken by the meeker construction company at forty thousand dollars per mile two million dollars was subscribed a short time ago for the work and the preliminaries for a bond issue of to complete the line have been arranged it is expected that by spring twenty miles of the road between the starting point and rifle gap will be ready for laying the raib rails construction st w rk will then be materially aided all the officers of the new road are denver and colorado men and the capital behind it comes from the east and south |