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Show BE SPENT II IIDI Iff ' - ' j Wlth ereat compound engines roll- J ; f Ing into the yards, while five big ' 1 riteam shovels, dozens of little "dm-kies" "dm-kies" and great crews of men are rushing the newest and most Important Import-ant construction of the present time now In the hands of the Denver & Rio j Grande Railroad Company Soldier ' .Summit, 100 miles south of Salt Lake Is being turned inio the most import-! import-! ant of all terminal points on the wort- . ern points on the western end of the D. & R. G. Railway, j Utahns will bo interested In the de- ails of the $2,000,000 project of ter--1 minal and classification yards making . Soldier Summit the southern terminal , of the Salt Lake division ot the Denver & Rio Grande Railway. This extensive exten-sive work now under way must be accomplished ac-complished before December 1, the date set by the railroad officials'-for the culmination of the tremendous , task. - , The importance to the railroad com-, com-, pany, nnd in turn to the, public, of the V decision that has finally been reached to establish classification yards at - . . Soldier Summit instead of Helper may be imagined when it is known that for the past ten years it has been the ardent desire of the railroad company, com-pany, the coal companies and .every- . one else interested in remedying the - operating conditions that have existed on the Salt Lake division of the D. & JL G. to Inaugurate the work that is now un4er way. . This will mean that when Soldier , Summit is established as a terminal 'i and classification point the total in vestment of -$2,000,000, which will in-" in-" elude the construction of over twenty-; twenty-; six miles of yard and switching tracks j . . the' erection of a fine railroad hotel and eating house to cost In the neighborhood neigh-borhood of $40,000, the construction t i a ucisiii n.iu tmrBt'iger aepoi BflU ? feet long, the cost of which will run j . over $6000; an engine round house capable of holding eighty giant loco-i loco-i , motives, the erection of a big railroad j storehouse," large coal c'lute an el-v- ?tric light and power house that will furnish electric service for alj of J,he r company's holdings, together with the , construciaon and maintenance of ex- terfsive mechanical shops that will in clude heavy and light car repairs, t blacksmith and machine shops, dispatchers' dis-patchers' offices and quarters for division di-vision superintendents and assistants. Some ldaa of the large force of men that will be required for the Soldier Summit terminal and classification jards upon the completion may be grained from the fact that fully forty freight train crews of five men each will have their headquarters there, making a mobile train crew force of over 200 men. Switching crews to the mlmber of twenty-five men will be necessary, while the dispatchers and the clerical force and superintendents and assistants will call for thirty additional ad-ditional men. The roundhouse will require re-quire twenty-five men, the heavy repair re-pair shop seventy-five, the light repair re-pair shop twenty-five, and the blacksmith black-smith shop, machine shop, electric . light plant, stere' rooms, coal chutes und clinker pits easily thirty ' more men. ft is understood that many business men In Helper and other railroad , towns on the Salt Lake and Grand Junction divisions are already locating locat-ing sites for business houses in the new town of Soldier Summit. The construction and railway engineers engi-neers in charge of the work declare t the yards can be completed and ready for the operating department by ; December 1, as many scores of men are at work at Soldier Summit and the building of the Great "Y" that will servo all of the twenty-six miles of switching track has been completed, com-pleted, together with much of the grading in the yards, As important as 'Soldier Summit will be as the southern terminal of the Salt Lake division of the D. & R. G. and as a classification point, , these factors constitute only a por- tion of what seems to be the sured iuiure or mis now railroad town. Well Informed railway officials who have closely followed plans for the proposed pro-posed Uintah Basin brarch, declare there can be little question but that the Uintah line will star from Soldier Summit, running first to Duchesne and then to Myton. Rumore have been current for some titn. that the Uintah Bivln project 'ias already been planned, and that It may be only a question of a few months before the work will actually be started on the new line that will tap one of the greattst and richest agricultural and cattle sections of the . int-nnuuntain west. As the main line t- rnilnal cf the Uintah Basin branch, the Importance Im-portance of Soldier Summit will be" Increased two fold and th new 'own will enjoy proppects of a very rapid ' Jfci'l substantial growth. |