Show JULIUS ARRIVES AND INSPECTS YARDS says big improvements will come when sand rodga cutoff cut off Is completed from mondays standard 1 I will have to ask you to look at the hill over there said julius general manager of the harraman Harrl man railroad system in an interview here this afternoon when asked concerning the execution of the plans for the local railroad improvements As he made this remark mr pointed to where the work of building the new sand ridge cutoff cut off la being prosecuted that he said is of the work and when the cutoff cut off is completed the other work will be taken up in the order of importance 1 I consider that ohp most important thing among the whole of the plans is the improvements that will be made at the union depot this has been an eye sore to me lor a long time and I 1 have labored tor the past six years to bring about a change he announced that after the completion of the cutoff the in the passenger yards would be increased and that the oregon short line would build a number of umbrella sheds for the protection of the passengers going to and from the trains he said that the umbrella sheds were the only practical ones and all new depots were being equipped in this way in place of the balloon shed he named omaha as one place where this class of sheds had been erected and called attention to the disadvantages of the large sheds of the pennsylvania railroad at jersey city philadelphia wid other points in the latter sheds the smoke and gas remain on the inside while with tha other kind the engine stands outside permitting the smoke to pass off unrestricted stricter ed among the improvements he mentioned the car shops and the new freight depot and said that rearranging of the freight yard would follow after the completion of the passenger yards we have just bean over to the shops said mr getting a general idea of what is needed all the heavy work will bo done at this point he said that the proposed improvements would cover a period of perhaps three years he knew nothing alte as to the time when work would be commenced on the new freight house and stated that there were no original plans tor the proposed improvements for ogden that they have had a dozen seta of plans we permit people to offer suggestions that often are adopted and which causa these many changes in speaking of the system in general he said that the only new thing that he could mention was that they had placed a large number of contracts recently for the building of locomotives and other equipment which would be put into use as soon as received he bad understood that the controversy with the san pedro line con the rates on fruit shipments had been amicably adjusted when asked concerning the san pedro trains being run through to ogden he replied that he knew nothing of this and that the san pedro people would have to be consulted concerning the western pacific coming into ogden he pleaded entire ignorance of their plans he stated that his time was largely spent on the lines of the system and that his trip here was only one of inspection spec tion the special train which was composed of four cars started on its journey to chicago about after a stop of one hour in the party here beside mr were general manager bancroft general superintendent buckingham superintendent hillaker Hilll ker master mechanic dunn engineer ash ton of the short line at salt lake and resident engineer fitzgerald superintendent manson and master mechanic luckett |