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Show UNION PACIFIC IMPROVEMENTS Omaha, May 25, 1923 Forty two million dollars will be spent by the Union Pacific this year for new equip meut and improvements, according to C. R. Gray, president of the Union Pacific system, in addition to the regular routine expenses for main-financed main-financed from new capital and not from earnings, Mr. Gray says. The additional double-tracking will give the Union Pacific virtually a two-track line all the way from Omaha to Ogden and Salt Lake City, and considered In connection with the double-track roads east of Omaha, Oma-ha, will make a double-track from Chicago to Salt Lake City, 1515 miles the longest stretch of double-track in the United States over which solid Now construction in Utah opens through trains are run. up territoriesi rich in iron, agriculture agricul-ture and scenic attractions. A lino has just been completed from Delta to Fillmore, Utah, and the line from Lund to Cedar City, Utah, is in process pro-cess of construction, The 1923 program pro-gram of the Union Pacific contemplates contem-plates an alternate main line through Boise, Idaho and a branch in the Idaho Ida-ho Falls district. When the 57 all-steel passenger cars, covered by the 1923 program, are received', this will provide all-steel all-steel equipment for all the main line through passenger trains. Seventy eight freight locomotives, and near-lv near-lv 5.000 freight cars have been ordered or-dered for delivery in time for the next harvest, in addition to 8.630 of new refrigerator cars of the Pacific Fruit Express, a company owned jointly by the Union Pacific and Sou thern Pacific. "This program is entered noon." says Mr. Gray, "with a firm belief in the prosperity of the yestern states and a confidence that the people peo-ple in the territory served by the Union Pacific will cooperate In mainlining main-lining the railroad! at a point of the greatest effectiveness." |