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Show oo NEW DEPOT FOR THE RIO GRANDE The Denver & Rio Grande railroad has instructed its engineering department de-partment to proceed with plans for a large depot to be built on the com pany's ground on Twenty-fourth street, near Wall avenue, and wc are reliably Informed the Structure will be crec ted this spring The plans are for a combination freight and passenger statiou, but the passenger part may not be finished for occupancy until some time after the main building is completed. This Is a needed improement ;n the Rio Grande service In Ogden The ramshackle shed on Washington av enue, called a depot, has been '.he most discrediting advertising the rail road could have tolerated. It haf been a standing sign of poverty, neg lect and dissolution, and bad any on said in words the disparaging thin:-; that the building mutely portrayed the railroad would have been tempted) to file an action for damages. Many promises have been made In the past to abate the nuisance In the! local yards, but at last the railroad l? to act. Let us hope tbe new depot will be a structure of architectural wortn and so much of an ornament to low er Twenty fourh street that we will forget there ever was a tumble-down station, without even the redeeming feature of a coat of paint, known as the Rio Grande station, at Twenty-first Twenty-first street and Washington avenue. |