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Show MILLIONS Four New Transcontinental Lines Planned 1 for Immediate Construction-Present Roads to Be Reconstructed and Costly Cutoffs to I Be Made-Roads of the United States Will I This Year Make the Greatest Strides in I Their History. ii has I n stlmitcel tlmt over ROOD ' f , .llrond will be built this firarJ nbmt J 00 000 000 Is to bo .ndcJ t r this work nnd chnnges, hot-i hot-i mi nts, ii lUlpment nni1 a BencrnI ic-haullr of the systems. The mon uiteWtlfB' Hue of this vast amount Sotk I " ,lie fncl tlnt the lonBcst ,,, ., lin and the greatest en-i..rii.. en-i..rii.. i J ts mc those of the far fwtr'ni moio particularly speak- the "t I't'B mound hilt Lalte l.i.stl i thie new ti arse onllnntul ,?,,, ii t built thmugli this clt. if", h i long since ptissul from the ',,,.( i ulitlon and arc now ns- '"? fJ Ihe are the Denver & vnrthi n which David II. Moffat Nort. , bulit to Salt Lake, the im Mi "" mlon ot ,ho Oregon ihort lln i which a bit? contract has for the trestle, hut as vet the manner fs fflnf -n,hl" W or ih?"Jrk ii.i i . b.' Ihe cut""t will be com leted In two jeais and Is attractlm? the intention of the engineering world! Fourth Through Line. Of the Kieutest interest to tho whole ntermountnln region Is the ureka & I.astern unolhei new transeon IhontM lino with the Pacific roast us its future goi Preliminary surveys aYe a tcudy heeu mtlved showing the inn". , "" i:"rck" ""'1 Ueildlnr Cat with nil extreme altitude of only 4000 feet I rom Hoddlng enst and north the line reaches an altitude of BOW feet and avoids neces.lt j for snow. Micds Kuieka . l.asteru will form a nT r ?," r"h N""''"" ''"clue near Poise f lt Ida , and with Oregon Shoit Line, enabling tho lumbet Interests of i -- ----- . K9iW I Itecel.vlng lulls for Leamington Cut-Off. Ken let and work Is In progress: tho cm Pelro, Lea Angeles & halt Lake. i hlch Is als i building. These three tlone a c unt fur over 2000 miles, or i lie fourth of the mileage figured for ih fir work They will cost borne-ililng borne-ililng like j:ooooooo Many Other Improvements But extensions nie not the only tenures ten-ures of the e irswork. nxlstlng roads 111 bo Improi oil In eveiy way possible nnd Ine et)"t Is Impossible to estimate lutlt "III be nwny up In the millions. Thousands cf miles of trnck vUI bo ro-Ullt ro-Ullt roi,luns wllened ballast dls-irtbuted dls-irtbuted new ties ami rails laid Grades i nil curves reduce I or eliminated, new undine) iictM and sards enl irRed to ifet the demands of Increasing traffic. Then millions will be expended for rcw lotomotlv s and cars A fow nonlhs aco It wis thought that a mll-Ipnforoni' mll-Ipnforoni' ordei of equipment was big, r ut now the lallrotds mo ordering eev-ertl eev-ertl mlllIons worth ut n time and the end Is not jet It Ii not the purposo In this article fv detail all the work planned, but to clvea brief outline of some of the more Important f ntures In the whole coun. t-j. with eiecliil reference to this rc-clon rc-clon which ns nlreadj stated, Is the timer of the most Important piojccta. New line Prom Denver. A COOOOOOO line will be tho extension 2"! i,!"r '" blllt Luk0 Projected by .H Moffat and acBoclntes It Is ii tic built from the Denver &. North-.', North-.', "V"!1 "'" bp completed In two U, i .'' "Ile "'" Pcnetrato a vast "main of northern Colorado and east-rn east-rn Uah now without a lalhoid and I.!..? '?.!' wllh "atttrnl icsouues to life tram- for the new line, 'lho line . .i",1" t: lnlles lo"K an(l l ?t-SMitmi2i.V ,o"t0 boUcc" Du" nwi'1 ".h,, """'oJ "n the road at ner f?AC"i nt'1.'' "'" bo ' ' '" !e 5.J "I'-l'iado. ami by the tlmo Ilb7?s,l'.",l', -'Plctcd tho lino i h&Rl.1 '!'"" -nvci. Ml. Mof-VbulltiiX Mof-VbulltiiX """r" "mt 'he lond will wilt and on tho 1US imiioatcj. Short Line Extensions. ' at VnrJV18. M'lmy- It Is now it Vklr S mii ? '"! ''"'"InBltm rut-' rut-' Ui 'n L' tl10 '"' Hack for Ifah m'CH llnc As soon ns pos-fcr pos-fcr ni ,""lm,,n('n to lay trnck "t tonn, .,tSC", i11"1 l'""h ''en' '"rtllc for ir '." """ ""' Southern w We t, .1 ,"r?6 M ,qi,e l""ct ""II B p .J1' l''eh some In. 1,8 front '" "r bl"y Pccnns nt !aj J1 J.hr cre taken a few lknf fVi i '7m Vlnl" "n "' ut-'comn' ut-'comn' "in, ",,d wl" "ll,,u "ow tthls , , ', I"lnK 'P tho material ffctlon nr .. 1"1 usc'' ' the con- 'iter l .ni1 n,1H ln'" and lamps ;J"lorj i '.""' '.hc lln- Then Kb 'rnla LI n work In .e.vada, CV. h ion, ifori ","t,', routea " roan, n? " ,c nm' ' "w '" 'Ita inoi-i?! " cnlPns Is at vmrk "i " n i, ,' n, ,,lnnt ""'' " o"" T Sin i.Lulw ns ""I K" up. ,k illl a! , i " ..''.""L AnR'l" & Salt twin '' "' llnlsheU In two enr 'n r"lio lurlmi "V'0" Angeles and ri! tr !,, T' "0,k f Brad-"'"i Brad-"'"i th u n? '","" ProR-rcim. ''lare , . AriReleu end Bur-ni Bur-ni !n h . "'"I'loteil In this Htnto "Wii"! nhoi LK''',"'',','' lovlew Tho ''"re r,,n0,V,?rrn,',h''1 wl" bo able '" In , iu""" of, trndlnir and '!h ' t n.M 01' ,l,lcu l,nr,1 nf ,,ri i,o . . " ot tho company !J "''1 i ii? ..."r' "ntlsfactorlly" U n.-r S'h',1n '"" ltuato,i n- ' nc , , " .,'" lnc "" matter f, h vi I'0""'- North-"' North-"' ""' n i..I ITnl roni' I" mLv m .. 7 l)y Mr Moffat ,Wr J h .,i'.i0' thuplan. Mr. " "I minllh ""wlalcs will "' bun i r" "" nn,l inn nssoclntes i, " t h I n Anirelep the two ." 1r1 ihi n, """' nro men of ogrr '" alonr m,Klt ( ,,,gvu " futuio Utah, r, ,r0'mSnItL!"C,.t.oa. ,1'r'' ''' o'd"!.1!1?' , r ,'nl'erlng, , ,r Jl i i ." t1'"1'" "'t-"ff ucrois "if T' will ! J" "" St'thern L, " I in h "'""thlnip llkr. f lr I bn'mi'. n"'.'hl In two ''Hi, I, "n 101 I m es Ions:, will 'il'D-iSKn" '" t u ,J ".to tho lnko shoro ' m ' k mat. mm l?u,1" ' 'torn 1.. Humboldt county to ship their pro. ducts Into the I.'nstcrn maiket The Imports und exports from tho port of I.ureka nic valued at over J6000,0'Hj annual. Thin railway will serve a population of nearl a quarter of a million people, who now have no direct inllway connections. The territory which It will trnvcrso has lumber, coal mines, gold and copper mines anel agricultural ag-ricultural lands The bonds mo belnu underwritten, und the work Is reported to be proBressliiK rapidly. The eon-trnct eon-trnct for building tho rood Is slid to huvo been awarded to Drake &. titration titrat-ion of New York, work to besln ln tho spring. It is reported that the road is to hc built In the Interests of the Northern Taclllc and Great Northern, and thnt tho Httcr will he extendeel from Uutte, Mont , to Welscr, Ida , to eonnect wllh the proposed line. A branch nf tho runlta .. Kiitrin l o bo built fiom Tails lllvci MIII. Cal , soiilheasl to Wndswoilh. Ncv to tap the Union Pacific. I.oid Thomas John ThUiloUKh of London IlnElind, Is lit the head of the syndknte. and asso-elated asso-elated with him me UrorKO II I'roc tor, n. II. Ilarilmnn J. It De I. Mm Itolicrf OII1S911. Wlllliim It. A Wilson and others Elo Orando Chnnges. The nio Oiando lines hivo no .in. noumed j.hn for extensions, ut tho tnmnany Is 1 .Inu a whole lot of sin-i- therh f lino, nln this Sla 0 I ,.c tho vllna at-off. 'J he Hlo (irandoMestc-ii 1-vcver. will wrfom a II ulran tnsl n lino changis be-tii be-tii Ha1 Lake and Thistle work on "which Is now In progress The samo klml of work will be done on tho lino of the system in foloiudo, and mil-lions mil-lions will bo expended for new engines and cars for both lines. The new shops will be- built at Halt Lake J"'"U improi emciits maelo nil over tno ss- tei Ihe coal llelds of Utah and Colo-rod" Colo-rod" tl 0 ir nagement will develop n trrrltor,. thl will call for nnothct Jargo sum. Mr, fJould Is Active. Of lulereat In all parts of 1 the I'njt a Htaleit pro tho niov omenta ot UeoiRO J floulir It has ulttady been told at FOR RAILROAD WORK T r - Ilrst Broael Oaugc Engine Assi cneei to Los Anaeles Line. O ft. T. leiiRth in Hies, e olumiia how the Oould lines extend fiom rcnlvnnli to I luh with the piospeet if reaching two 01 eons before long The Oould s have acquired eontrol or the Mexlrnn .No tlonnl win, h Is to hi trinsfoimcl I hit teen millions In gold will bo spent in changing the gauge. Improving ant extending the line und adding to the iqulpm. nt Most Intcreetlng is the coming ent i nni e of the Wubnsh Intn Pittsburg It m the triumph of the Could svstcm aftei .VI Jrar" the realisation of a .ileum "f the Uer Oould mado possible h his .on-., mid is nt consummate Important c ii the nevei ending rnllioad eonlllit It Is not that the new line that Is to lw built Is so long but that when com I'leUd It will be a great fae lor In a lluntlon It enables the Ooul 1 sjstem of 10 000 miles to ohtnln Its share of Listern trinic Tw.ntj million dollais will be spent on this new ntictch of 10 id and the Pittsbuig fi eight termi-mls termi-mls 'Ihe new roid will be some slxt miles long, from Jewett Junction to Pltttbuig It will Include, belde Ihe great freight station of seveiul stories aliindy spoken of scveial remarkuh.e bridges, one of which over the Monon-raheln Monon-raheln at Pittsbuig will be one of the heaviest lantllevei bridges ever built, nils cantilever bildge Is such n huge affair Inilceil, that tho Amcrlum Ilillse companv Is building a spochl plint to eonstru t It Its ion will bo tl 000 000 The new loid will hnvo four tracks. Its ihlef service will be canj. Ing of ore, coke nnd conl. Under the head of tho Wo (Irnnde, Mi Uoulds activity hero nt homo is treated In detail Millions for Santa re. Thirty million dollars will be expended ex-pended by the Atchison, Topoka & Hinla To In Improvements This amount, giect as it Is, Is lint so ie-maikable ie-maikable as Is the propoitlon that will be devoted to the nciulsltlon of new rolling stock Very nearl half of it, or JH 000 000 Is to bo spent on equipment equip-ment In huge passenger nnd freight engines the Santa Pe Is unquestlonnbl leading the world The laigest loeomu-live loeomu-live mi built, it deeapod, or engine with ten driving wheels, welshing JG0,. 000 pounds nnd capable of hauling on a level track a train a mile nnd a half long, has Just been delivered to tho Santa Pe for service In the mmmtnin legions. Of 120 freight locomotives oi-dercd oi-dercd bj tho Hunta 1 e, seventy-four nro Japs Unloading Ties nt Buena Vista. around Urooklyn nnd the bridge over Itandall s Island to the muln shore above the Harlem river, togethci with J9 000,000 for tunneling under tho i:asl river. nvervwhero over the Pennsylvania railroad linen thcie are to be great changes curves arc to bo stialglit-ined stialglit-ined out, grades reduced and bridges rebuilt Never hai theie been nnj-thlng nnj-thlng like these Pennsylvania railroad Improvements hi railroad hlstoiy single Hack tunnel ln the heart of the Allightnles will do uway with the fa-moils fa-moils and Picturesque Horseshoe Cuive Ihls single tunnel will tost an even million dollars. Ten millions will be spent on building stone urih bridges to leplace those of steel One ot tbeip, with four tracks will span the Susquehanna Sus-quehanna nt II'K'lcv Illc. This brlelso Wl-f'A- M'-'P'T ANA 771'Tt-t -jr. V -N&fdiriji "vV'-lr- .' ' O R C..G O N B;.. p.X"""'' L, .. ?v v"i' j. !."'- ia .. "" ' 1 i i ) ..' ' ' ' 'fc,'","'f''' "i yllilf' .,! JfTAMr i "'. w ' TAr'" ' A- I Lc It ' I . rfi'i tui.l j i "A - w ? I vsf '- I f'k.-n,'-.. K-"'K.w raT .... II . y I 1 fhrwi. s .l7ifif ' Ot3r -y i ri -. rt ..) f fC'dr t iScTe ; , ; a ni zona ' l o -"'"N , ' MEXICO I Map Showlntj Four Now Transcontinental Lines. to bo decapods, of tho same silo as the monster Just completed Tift nie to be oil hurncis, for 111 tho S, uthwest nil is tho most economic engine fuel liio decapods uie rnloKt.il In weight and po i Theli driving wheels havo a dl-am dl-am tcr of llftj-acvcii Inihen Thc will bo ah e to do the wmk funnel lj uicnni-pushed uicnni-pushed by two engines In taking trains up ho. guides I'ach can haul u load of 2100 tons up a lift foot gra Ie. There Is not ft Incoinotlvo shop In the lountry that has not orders piled up for months ahead Nothing else than great en-glnen en-glnen of such power can till tho needs of tho day Poi pissenger unfile the 'Snntn IV hnH also the most poweiful engines now lu use. Dve thousand box cars Is another Item In the cipensa uccount nf tho Santa l'o this sear Tho rood will also moke miny Improvement!, nnd extensions exten-sions on Its fcedei roads, besides spending spend-ing 12 000 000 on new terminal" at Kan PrJiiclsco In Uie Tar East. T Pemisjlvnnlv will spuid S100 000. 000 on Its uw.i lines, nnothei 100 000 0i"0 on the Ilalllmoro & Ohio Of the formei amount twenty millions will be spent In now lolling ulock, thirty-live millions nt least In the tunnel undei tho Hudson liver Into New York, soon to bo commenccC The new rolling Muck will Includo fieleht cms of K0 000 lu 100,000 roundj capai.lt, locomotives of 6 per icnt mor now r th n those now in use It Ik possible Hi ,i n N hi , , P nnsvlvnnla tl tv millions to i,et mt New loik To wlutivei amount Is spent will hi Ve to I a lei 1 some Ighl millions for the n. n fi eight tinuinii nt llr emlllr on ihe N, v,,k iX rlinre 'I hen some 110 nt 0 000 pure will go lo build the nn llnats the v me houses niross the lnv the b 1 j, will bo comprised of fort -eight stone arches and will cost J 1 000 000 Pour bundled locomotives nnd 10 000 fiolght cms have been ulrendy ordered At Washington the new terminals for the Pennsylvania rallroid and the Ililtl-more Ililtl-more v. Ohio will cost six millions njid woit of nttshurg Into Chicago vaat sums will ho spent nu the llnltlmoie t Ohio lines. Northern rnclllc rians. One Improvement of the Noirhcrn Pnclllc will bo a cut-off, 110 miles long nomas nklmi v illey, nnd will cos Jl oooooi A JOLmlle link Is to bo hullt between tho (treat Northern nt Hloux Palls, ri I), nnd tho iiurltngton ut Hroken Hon, Neb This will give bt. Paul and Diiluth tho nhoit linn to Den. ver, and wlien tho Ilurlingtou builds Its line to M.lt Lake, a near possibility, (onnectltig Willi the loud across Nevada Ne-vada to Los vngeles, tho Hhortest line fiom the. take to the Paelllu coaHt. "Canadians In Line, The Canadian Pirlilc bus caught ho fever from tho in ids further to tho south and Is Increasing Its capital stock by twenty millions In Manitoba It will build J00 miles nf now und Ten of thess twenty millions will go to tho purchnse of lolling slock Two millions mil-lions will go to tho cnlniglng of the shops, six millions to the permanent way and font millions lo grain ilcva-tois. ilcva-tois. Improvements of terminals etc "lha running time bowecn Monueal Salt Lake the Center of the Most Important Projects, with a )Mew Line from Denver and Two to Los AngelesOrders for New Equipment Already Placed Are Unparalleled Fortunes to Be Disbursed in Reconstructing Reconstruct-ing Present Systems, i 1 in i i will b. cut from four dnv i llu,, m. N'l -ik , eutrnl wi 1 p i I vonisinm on betterments line. liiindiKl and elghiy-llve brldgen ti In un wed and thlr Is but one iu in Othti Reiils Are Busy. IT hi Louis 'an rmntlsin has d, 1 1 lei lo lav Ut S!. 000,004 lu hlllldlng Ti In Uwf ind making Improvements Ibis mi mix it things foi the rutin e of tin loulhiMsir The Chicago Hoik Iidind & Pn III, Ins ir miles of , x. unslons In piogi.'s and piopnseil for Iso Inn mo nlitlvolv tmall a mad tlv I 1 inn Oklahoma .1 liulf his In i nit f,n $.,100 01111 nnllll of loto- in tiv h nnd , us lh, MlnnenpM's 1st Pud & Siult l-te Mime tin. Kan- su ( l Mi xl n A Oi'ent 111" tiller nail i ,1 A i.r i N, nh, rr the i In tin i 1 Iil hiiinnd & Mini, U the Chi mgn A NnMliwr stern are all to spend mllllens lh (Irand Trunk will bo double traekel nil the vn from ( hi aigo tn Montreal The Missouri Kansas Kan-sas A Tevas isllroail is to be bulll Into Omaha dlreell 'lhw Cbliagn .c. tlrenl West. 'ii at once begins to double track Its line between Si Paul nnd Chlcnuo This road has also oMenslons nt Sioux Cll and Oiiuihn, and will spend miliums, mil-iums, beglpulng Immedlalel Th" Rock Island has t-penl a fortune lu gettlnc In HI Paso nnd Is now going to expend mllllonn for new equipment KlKhl million an announced ns Ihe expense bill or the c'liUngo MIIWHUkei A Su Paul foi th turning veai. lis main lines lo St IVul wIM be double tracked nt once Thee hi, ago llurllig ton & Quln, Is etui tin ti bulll its III Hern southern extension from To-luin To-luin Mont, soutbwet a dlslanco of 130 mllen |