Show n BIG BU G BURLINGTON ENGINES ES I AT WORK ORK ON OX MOFFAT ROAD I Step by step progress is being made In the preparations of the Burlington railroad to make the Moffat road a link In Its Us new line to the he Pacific coast In each instance the he Routt County Sentinel has been the he first newspaper to announce the plans and the truth of what It has published is being steadily confirmed As st stated ted by the Sentinel last week the Burlington has decided to great greatly greaty y Increase the revenue of the road by handling a larger tonnage from the Routt county coal coalfields coalfields coalfields fields and it has now assigned to the he use of this road a number of powerful powerful pow pow- erful freight locomotives to assist In pulling coal trains and bringing in a larger arger supply of empty cars than the Moffat road management was able to secure before the new control began 1 to take an active Interest in the conduct conduct con con- duct of this line Another detail of the Burlington plans which the Sentinel first gave to 0 o the Hie public was the location of at fie te Ie ICO cres of land acquired as a site for its now s shops ops tua mads lU ie by the linking of the M bI flat road the tle Denver Rio Grande and the Western Western Western West West- ern Pacific to Its Its Its' Chicago Denver Chicago Denver line and which will be lIe made the principal shops of the entire nUre Burlington Burling Burling- ton system As stated Jan JAU 7 7 This pur purchase hase adjoins adjoins ad- ad joins loins the property occupied d by the tho Moffat shops at Ut Utah Uta t. t Junction function t an ana Y 1 P last Sunday the Denver News published pull pub a map showing th the tha location of the land It is half a mile square and extends eastward from Utah Junction to the Globe smelter and northward from the limits of the city and county of Denver to to a line just north of the Moffat MorIat shops The Lyons branch of the Burlington traverses traverses traverses tra tra- verses the tract on its fray vay from the Denver Union depot to o Utah Junction Junction Junction Junc Junc- tion while the Boulder line of the Colorado Southern owned by the Burlington skirts it on the west and the C. C S. S track connecting Utah Junction with the stockyards crosses crossed the northern portion of it Rumors In circulation Im ins Denver that construction work on the connection connection connection con con- between the Moffat road a at al Ores Orestod tad and the Rio Grande at Dotsero Dotsero Dot- Dot sero sera Is to be commenced at once but no definite information has been se secured secured secured se- se cured regarding these preparations It is stated that the Burlington plans to complete this connection in order to provide an Immediate outlet for forthe forthe forthe the Routt county coal to the Pacific coast and thus increase the revenues revenue of both the Moffat road and the Denver Denver Denver Den Den- ver Rio Grande This will result in a much larger number of miners being employed by the mines mines mines' and andin andin andin in assuring continuous operation of the properties Steamboat properties Steamboat Sentinel o n. |