Show t LONG PIPE LINE tINE ACROSS DESERT ij j Union Pacific to Dodge Alkali t r t tr r i by Transporting Water for fori i Its Locomotives t TO SPAN WASTED TRACT t tV t q o Tr t. t oS S Work OIk k Vill m Bc Bl n S SHi K n Thoi 5 ll Spent Upon an till Older S. S S Method T 5 i g O Feb 24 lit 24 In Union Pacific circles lc il la Is announced that work will be lie started during the lie next few days das on tho the pipe line hue coni contemplated con con- i t by that ro real U to span the tho f lied Hemi Desert line between Rawlins nn and amid i Lc I Green River Wyo to S supply fresh h the tho company's locomotives t v vater for fOI I 2 after thc they leave this point on their f V r J eastward a Ill I'll Journey yAn- yAn l The Thc span will vill be con constructed Ji through a section of what whal I is known to the thc al transcontinental railroads as kail belt This alkali country countr ux- ux m tends lends from the thc Mexican to time the Cana- Cana c. c A 0 flan lian borders Railroad companies t this belt bell have ha spent i who whose c roads loads cross yr r thousands tho of dollars In attempting to toL toL L'- L' L solve the question of oC making the water ater t p n 1 S tit fit for fOl locomotive e use X ft The Time Union Pacific for Cor or many years ars 2 1 J used the thc desert water In locomotive c t. t boilers hollers with the time result that thal the time boilers Incapacitated for use useIn usei tt were Vele entirely r o t months So called ht ei i In less than eight purifying plants In iii which the water S j v. Was vas put through a n process calculated alkali then erected the thc were to remove c I slight Im Improvement Ira Ira- ImI only i but hut thc they produced a n I J provement 1 During the thc past pat two t tot t years eals the Union Pacific at al un an enormous enor ri expense has been hauling water vater vaterS S Into tIme the dc desert crt In cars from it Platte L. L c y II Ji Is now flOW proposed to construct pipe pipelines f. f lines one mile of or which will wili r carry water e from the thc North Platte river rl us far as ast t- t station and nn the tho other will carry carrywater l water from Green Grcen river Ilver as ls far tar a as Table rabie no k station there being a distance 1 of or 51 six miles time the n s of or the S two proposed pipe lines The Tho Union Pacific already has a similar pipe line from flom Fort Steele on the time Platte to Ra a distance of nf sixteen l miles with n a n ris ilse o of or 23 reeL feel el It i-i i is proposed to tp extend this line lInc lineS to a distance of i 75 miles with S S grade which will make maliC the new ne end i- i S 3 foot hl higher hel The hl highest point of I R i iS S the fhe pipe Jpe line will bo at ut on oni i lh Iho ho Continental null and 33 feet feetS t S hl h 1 that Intake at al Fort Kort Steele J On ii an n II 1 thi f 5 n miles Te the wu water lV wilt fio flow Without pum I I Time The Union Pacific also allo has a a. pipe 1110 pipeline line from rom Green Gleen tl nl to Rock flock RockSprings Springs a a. distance of or fitly fifty miles mites the tIme 1 water being forced o U up by powerful pumps The fhe second ocon pipe line hue will be bc bean beam an am extension o of the time Rock Springs Springe pipe liPe an and 1 will vill be carried ll eastward to lo Table TableRock Rock flock a distance o of GG mites miles with an S increase In SIl guide C- C Cof of 7 r feeL eeL The S end cud of the thc pi pipe pc at Table Tahle Rock flock will vill be bc beS i S feet higher than the intake at S S Green River nl |