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Show RIO GRANDE WILL ! SPEND SI 0,000,000 The eark'y purchase of forty passenger passen-ger an.l freight locomotives and sufficient suffi-cient eighty-five-p mibl steel rails to lay fifty-five miles of seconil track costing in all $10,000,000, wtts announced in Den- j ver last week by President B. F. Bush : of the Missouri Pacific and Denver & Rio Grande. He also announced that certain of the heavy grades of the road including Soldiers Summit in Utah, would be reduced at once. A proposition proposi-tion to electrify the operation over Sol- . diers Summit is under consideration. The news that the Denver & Rio Grande railway will spend about $10,000- j 000 in improvemeii s in this state dur- j iiiK the y ar was announced' in a telegram tele-gram received from headquarters at Denver by General Superintendent A. B. Appersou. President B. F. Bush ad. vised Vice President E. L. Brown of his approval of the purchase of from thirty-five to forty locomotives and proposed improvement work along the line in Utah. The estimate that $10,000,000 will be spent by the company compa-ny is considered low, as the engines a-one a-one will cost approximately $2,250,000. The announcement of President Bush of these improvements is the outcome of a promise he made several weeks ago while in Salt Lake. Three big surveying outfits are now in the field. During the week several large contra cting and construction companies com-panies have looked over the ground preparatory pre-paratory to bidding for the big eon- 1 tracts. The improvements that have been definitely decided upon are twenty . miles of second track between Castle Gate and Kyune, double track from Tucker to Thistle and a complete ne v low gra le from S libera Sun nit to ' Tucker. In order to eliminate the pres-j pres-j ent f j'J. ' pjr c :it gr t le it p.-asant be-I t ween the two latter towns, the route will lie changed so that the grade will be reduced to only two per cent. Eighty-five-pound steel will be used in the new twenty miles of track between Castle Gate and Kyune. Much of this will be heavy rock work, as the line will pass through a mountainous country. The new engines will be for both passenger pas-senger and freight service and will he large compounds of the Millet and Mikado Mi-kado type. The proposed purchase of 1,500 freight cars has also been announce. announ-ce. 1 The improvements planned will re- duce the cost of operation and increase ; the capacity of the roads, say officials of the road. Fifteen new engines have just come out of the shop during the past sixty days ready for full business. , There are at present 750 men working j full time in the Salt Lake shops alone ! and the business is altogether much bet- j ter than last year. ; In regard to the electrifying of Soldiers Sol-diers Summit, the message received Friday by Superintendent A pperson read as follows: "The engineering work of reducing certain grades and including Soldiers Summit is to be proceeded with immediately. imme-diately. In fact, preparations have already al-ready been made to convert Soldier Summit road from steam .to electric. "Final calculations will be completed in the course of a fortnight and if the apparent advantage of electrification can be secured and demonstrated, prob ably that portion of the road between Helper and Thistle will be placed under electric operation. The power for coal and ore mining operations and for perhaps per-haps other commercial purposes." |