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Show I RIO GRANDE NOT I: to mm Hn ' Tne management of the Denver & Hi fi'o Grundc has decided to abandon HrL-' the plan"to electrify the road over hT' Soldier's Summit. The plan, which , i vas advanced by President B. F Bush, ; , of the road, was considered to bo a t ' ' money-saving proposition. Tho en- H; M gineers who first went over tho llhe Hl ' with the Idea of electrisation in viow Hr ' expressed the belief that this could be B-; , done with comparatively small coat , j and would effect a savin- of a million MMB: ij dollars every year to the company. H: ' The Telluridc . Power company, hbw- H ' ever, would not furnish the necessary MMH power at tho estimated cost, which MMH ' was Beyen-elghths of a cent a kllo- MMH watt Plans for the building of a H hydro-electric plant woro thon con- tt'V. eldered but It was decided that the H y. cost of this would be greater than H jy the building of a detour, on which j : work Is already under way. It Is H L1. estimated that the reduction of the H I ' grade from 4 per cent to 2 per cent H ' will make an annual saving of $600,- |