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Show SOLDIER SUMMIT A GROWING TOWN New Railroad Town, Will Get $50,000 Y. M. C. A. According Accord-ing to Report. Residences Needed Badly. Although not yet six months old, Soldier Summit had grown from an obscure way station to a thriving and rapidly populated industrial center. From east to west and from the foothills foot-hills on the south to White River on the north, home builders, prospectors and speculators continue the buying of lots. It is not a mad scramble, such as one might witness at a new mining or oil camp. On the contrary, it is carried on with a decorum and celerity that augurs well tor the future fu-ture of this railroad center, which bears no earmarks of a mushroom community. This idea of making Soldier Summit one of the most important terminals along the entire system had been in the minds of Denver & Rio Grande officials for years, and as a result the railroad company; now possesses at Soldier Summit splendid terminals and extensive classification yards. Dally Trafflo Heavy. , A daily average of approximately 1,400 cars, both loaded and empty, were handled in the yards during the month of December. For December there was a dally average of eleven west bound coal trains, each train averaging sixty-five carB. The east bound empty car trains numbered nine, with an average of seventy-six cars per train. The number of engines en-gines turned dally at Soldier Summit was sixty-five. This Included forty-nine forty-nine engines of the 220 class, four of the 185 class, and twelve Mallets. The above record is for December, 1919. For January, 1920, the normal dally west bound movement was 398 loaded cars, and the average daily east bound movement was 500 empties, but on January 28, for the twenty-tour-hour period ending at 6 p. m., there were handled out of Soldier Summit 764 west bound loads and an almost equal number of east bound empties. The new washout system is in full operation at the summit With this system engines can be washed and turned in five hours time. This includes in-cludes blowing the engine down, washing it out, necessary boiler work, and getting up maximum steam pressure. pres-sure. The new-cinder conveyor is of no less interest than the washout system. Fires are cleaned on the ashpit, and all cinders are immediately imme-diately blown through six or eight-inch eight-inch pipes under the tracks and into a gulch. When warm weather comes it is the intention of the railroad company com-pany to load these cinders . into cars with this conveyor and make use of them on the tracks. The new reservoir reser-voir Just north of the city is now completed, com-pleted, and holds one; and one-half mil-Jiott mil-Jiott gallons of water, enough-to Supply Sup-ply 10,000 r.o n urotl u ill TBll- road needs. it Residences Needed Badly, But the crying need from the beginning begin-ning has been' for more residences. Soldier Summit has been handicapped in that particular1 respect. Two hundred hun-dred rental cottages is a conservative estimate of present urgent need. Work will soon begin on the concrete subway connecting the south . and north sides. ..A new $50,000 Y. M. C. A. building is to be erected at the earliest possible date, the location being just east of the hotel. The yard-master's yard-master's new office building is now completed, and that will relieve congestion con-gestion in the depot waiting room, which has been used temporarily as his. office, , In addition to these, new residences and two store buildings are in course of erection. Two motion mo-tion picture theaters ares contemplated, contem-plated, and a church and new school building will be late additions for the year 1920. The population, which Is 800, has more than doubled since J December. |
