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Show GOOD NEWS LOOMING FOR CITY OF MILFORD DROP-PITS, BACK SHOPS, NEW DEPOT AND EATING HOUSE, ELECTRIC COAL SHOOTS ICE PLANT AND MORE HI EN OPPORTUNITY IS KNOCKING HARD It is Now Time to' Get on Our Toes and Liven Up IT'S COMING, LET'S GET SET i Master Mechanic's office to be brought here. New electric coal shoot to be built New eating house and depot plans ire completed. New ice and refrigerator plant to be built. New scab's to be inst.ilicd. New 110-foot turn f.bK for i ho round hotpc. New drop-pits to be constructed. More train crews to be put on. More men to be employed at lb1' shops. Branch road to be built to iron mines. All this sounds good and means much for the future of Milford. Some of the above activities will commence next month nearly all m them will be under way by June 1st. However, some of them may be postponed post-poned until later. The following information conies to our representative from sources which appear to be reliable. (An electric coal shoot and bins will h - erected here this springf at a cost of between $60,000 ami JT.'i.OhO. This will mean a more economical way for handling coal and will be of I much advantage in coaling the loro-l loro-l motives. Mr. W. F. Merry, master mechanic will move his office here before the first of March, and will bring with him several mechanics and ho ler-Takers, ler-Takers, now employed at the Trovo shops. Mr. Merry says that Milford is the most central place to have work-done, work-done, and for that reason he is moving mov-ing his office here; and that more work will he done here and more "or omnloyed' here. Plans are completed for a large new depot and eating house to be built here at a cost of $4 0,000 to $60,000. This building will be Io- laled just wort ,f the present depot, j between the bolls.- track and the Col den Rule store. I New automatic scales arc to be iu-I iu-I stalled Fast of the present depot. A new 110-foet turntable will be 'installed at the round hou-e and twi.j new drop-pits will l e built so more i heavy work ran be done at tin- shops j Several new train trews have p. n put on since the I.' dinnim; ef the year, and more will !. put on its soon j 'as the orange shipping season opens j up again in Southern ("ali!'orni:. j This will also nerc .ip-.te i -, npiov- j ling of more men on tin' nine crew.! There is also a great deal of talk about the buildim: of an i plant here for the Pa ilic Fruit Express. There seems to he ro doubt rhout it j being built, but whin, appears to be j .'he question. If this is leiill it willj be located est pf the present depot! out. where the Y i now bv aic.l and ' will cost in the r.fi)thbrrh-ii! of f;,; ,000. I The leases on the iron deposit pro- j perties have hcn taken ;!, and tPe money in mrst r;;ses ha- been tur"-j ed over by the I'tph Steel ro!pp;:nv j Tlrs means that a braueh read will! j be tv.iilt from Lund to the mines and ! ; nerhans on lo Cedar Ci'v. which! 1 ' i means more work and more men. j Last year, new nine.tv pound s'eel jwis laid from I.vnndyl to Oasis and i from Lund to N-da. Next month. ; work will he respnied on that and j when completed, the entire road 'from Los Angeles to Salt Lake, wi1? 'be equipped with ninety pound steel ! In nddit-on to these imnrovemonts 'the Union Pacific comp.anv has on- i nrecsei j t Ma'tppeness and desire to ce. operate in bringing ip new people to belli in settling and devroidng the jmany unoccupied acres of high elas agricultural lands around Milford. |