Show WILL RESUME E WORK AT SOLDIER SUMMIT D. D R. R G. G Terminal Construction Con- Con to Bo De Begun at Once Once Once- I d Ready Reidy for Operation in r Four Mouths Months Immediate resumption of work on the Denver Rio Grande railroads railroad's terminal at Soldier Summit Summit Summit Sum Sum- mit begun last summer and ana ordered abandoned because of the demands of war economy has been authorized by by y Walker D. D Hines United States railroad administrator r according to toan toan toan an announcement received here yesterday yes yes- J. J G. G Gwyn chief engineer in charge of the project Is en route to Denver to consult with Denver Rio Grande officials in regard regard regard re- re gard to the matter and will assemble a crew at once to begin work The construction work will be completed within the next three or four months it it Is believed 1 Soldier Summit was officially designated designated designated as the southern terminal of the Salt Lake division of the Denver Rio Grand railroad and as a freight classification classification point a year ear ago The difficulty of the grades at Helper which has been used as a terminal I hitherto and its Us distance from Salt L Lake ke made this move on the part of the railroad officials cl ls of gre advant grer-advant- I advant-I age It is said I I l Terminal Important I 1 The Importance to the railroad I company and in turn to the public I dependent upon the product of Utah's coal mines of the decision to establish establish lish classification yards at Soldier Summit instead of at Helper was seen at once when It was known that it had been the ardent desire of railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road companies and business Interests interests interests inter Inter- ests generally to remedy operating conditions The construction work which will be under way yay at t Soldier Summit as soon as a force of or work- work ngin n je Dr i ir rw lr cam com comprise o prise twenty six miles of switching tracks a foot depot a big engine i house storage house a railroad railroad rail rail- road hotel large mechanical shops an electric light plant waterworks system coal chutes and clinker pits Soldier Summit will be made one of oftie the tie biggest railroad points and the most vital center on the Denver Rio Grande railroad Thousands of cars o of coal will be classified there Some idea of the great force of ofen men Inen en that will be needed to operate the terminal may be gained from the fact fact that fully forty-eight forty freight train crews of five men each will have their headquarters at this place making a mobile train crew of men nen I Switching crews to the number of twenty five men will be necessary while dispatchers and a clerical force additional additional addi- addi and assistants will require an thirty The roundhouse force will comprise twenty-five twenty men The building of f the great Y that will serve all the twenty six miles of tracks has already been completed together with much of the grading in the yards All coal from the adjacent adjacent adjacent ad ad- jacent points of Schofield Castlegate Helper and Spring canyon will be as assembled assembled assembled as- as in these yards and classified Trains will be made up for Idaho California Oregon and Nevada poin points s The coke from Sunnyside Is furnished furnish furnish- ed to all the Salt Lake valley smelters smelters as well as to Anaconda Mont I Utah's coal production last year has been estimated at tons |