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Show FREIGHT DEPOT, TO BE BUILT BY RJ. W. A new freight depot for Ogden that will cost between $75.0h) and $100,-000 $100,-000 is one of the items of the budget of the DenveT & Rio Grande for the fiscal year that has been approved, according to a report received here yesterday The depot wil be built of concrete and hrick, according to the plans while are being prepared in Denver It will be situated on 24th street near Wall avenue, on a tract of land bought seeral years ago for the purpose The new depot has been under consideration con-sideration for some time, but word that authority for its construction had bc-cn granted was not received her-3 until yesterday As soon as the plans are completed and the other necessary preliminaries gone through actual construction work will be started and will be kept going, as work is going on all along the lines of the company, until Ogden has a depot that would accommodate a city several times is larg New Yards Planned. In keeping with the depot yards. 1 connecting lines and sidings and drlvi ways w-iu be provided Tho passenger passen-ger department of the company will still be handled in the union depot, but the offices of the operating and , freight departments of the road will be in the new depot building Although the Ogden depot is the big Item for Utah on the budget for j the year, many other improvements j are planned for Snlt Lake and other I towns and cities along the line, in addition to those already under way It Is evident that Qtab will get a full share of the additional million which President B P Bush recently an nounced would be spent for imnrov -mcnts. rn |