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Show 111 PACIFIC IS 01 , OF THE BIG ROADS . warn H Twenty -four million dollars!! H Tli.it is the total amount expended H by the Union Pacific system during H j This represents wages, improve - H ments and additional equipment- It H -also tangibly represents that the Union H Pacific Is always building and improv- . ing and that it is one of the greatest H railroad -systems on earth. J All of the new double track work is now completed and in use, both in Wyoming and In Kansas. The only portion of this yot remaining to be finished being the second tunnel on Sherman hill, which will he ready somo time in the spring. Becauso of r the' demands for locomotives in H 'France, England and Russia, the Un- B ion Pacific was able to get, out of its H orders placed last year, only twenty Mikado engines and ten of the 2-10-2 type. None of the switch engines H -were received and there arc five 2- ' 10-2 type yet to bo delivered and flf-1 flf-1 teen Mikado engines in addition to the j . fifteen Mallets. ' Tho purpose" of last year's expendi- turcs like all such expenditures, of course, are made with the idea of Hj general improvement of tile Union H Pacific railroad so as to enable it bet- . ter to serve the needs of its patrons. H' " It is not known what the improve- ment program of the Union Pacific will cost during the present year. Since the government assumed control of American railroads, the original pro-gram pro-gram havo been changed or rather de-layed. de-layed. It is known, however, that the Union Pacific is directly supervised and operated by the same men who were in charge before tho advent of HH government control and that its prcs-H1 prcs-H1 p ent merit and efficiency and the right H1' to be called "the national road" will be Hj maintained. Hi 'j The Oregon Short line, almost dis- H tinclly Utahn, like its parent line, the H I ' Union Pacific, likewise wholly western, H' ( has shown a degree of physical im-Hl im-Hl ' provemcnt that compares favorably H f with any railroad company in America. ,f A list of the important changes in factories and plants, these changes H ,'! would be called additions the Oregon Hr Short line has assumed a notch ex-H' ex-H' ccedingly and splendidly close to the top. It is the railroad that is helping , to develop the west, particularly Utah ' and Idaho, and make it possible for the people to commercialize the vast ; Hj resources lying at their doors. Here is a list of the more important ' H; and significant improvements accom- H' pllshed by the Oregon Short line dur- i W1 ing the twelve months, ending Dec. 31, i ' Approximately 60 miles of 'SO and ! 'i 85-pound rail in the main track has 1 been replaced with 90-pound rail, to Hi meet the requirements of increasing 1 h weight of equipment. 1 To facilitate operation and accom- ' " modatc shippers, approximately 30 H' miles of additional side tracks were i constructed. New Hues under construction are as j , follows: ' Baker's spur extension estimated I to cost $70,000; Garland to Bear Itlvor City, estimated to cost $179,000; Lin- coin, to Firth, estimated to cost ?27S,- 000; Menan to Annis, estimated to cost 1 Hl $51,000; Keever to Thomas, estimated H; to cost $99,000; Collins Northeasterly, : Hi estimated to cost $143,000. i To meet the requirements of in- Hl creased size and weight of equipment, fl ! I several laige bridges required replac- H" ing, the more important of these being 1 Hr.! the four-span wood and steel truss i Hj ; bridge across the Snake river on the ' H I Mackay branch near Blackfoot, which i "was replaced with a -179-foot steel 1 Hi i bridge, of heavier design, at a cost of H l approximately $51,000; the two wood- Hji I en truss bridges across the Wood river Hm, near Ketchum on the Ketchum branch H ' being replaced, each by a 217-foot steel 1 H truss span on concrete abutments at H I a cost of $55,000; the 750-foot pile : HJ trestle, 40 feet high, across the Snake 1 H river on the Twin Falls branch, being ' replaced with steely spans on concrete masonry substructure at a cost ,ol about $200,000; the 220-foot wooden truss bridge near "Vine on the Oregon Eastern branch roplaced by steel spans on masonary pier and abutments at a cost of $44,000, and the addition of a center truss span to each, of the three 164 -foot dock steel truss spans over Conant creek, near Grainville, on the Victor branch, at an approximate cost of $39,400. Frame depots were constructed at each of the following places, at a cost of approximately ?4000 each: Paul, Ida.; Grace, Ida.; Keever, Ida.; Ida-home, Ida-home, Ida., and Gannett, Ida. Tho do-pots do-pots at Filer Buhl and Kirio were ox-tended ox-tended at a cost of $3000 each, and the depots at Tremonton, Trenton and Moore wero extended at a cost of $1300 each. Tho Twin Falls freight depot was rebuilt and extended at a cost of $3500. Now water stations wore provided as follows: "Nyssa, at a cost of $14,-000; $14,-000; Murphy, ?S000; Bancroft, $10,000; Pioneer, $5000: Tabor, $6500. A 65,000-gallon steel ' water lank and a 12-inch stand pipe with necessary neces-sary piping were installed at Farming-ton, Farming-ton, at a cost of $6500, and at Garner, similar equipment was installed, at a cost of $6000. A new club house at Lima was completed com-pleted at a total cost of $18,000, and furnished at an additional cost of $S000. Tho club house at Glenns Ferry Fer-ry was rearranged and extended at a cost of approximately $5000. The railroad rail-road company also donated $11,000 toward to-ward the enlargement of the Y. M. C. A. building at Pocatello. The ash pits at Montpelier and Glenns Ferry were extended to accommodate accom-modate four engines each at one time, I at a cost of approximately $14,000. At Salt Lake City tho freight depot facilities were Increased by tho erection erec-tion of a 70x233-foot steel and corrugated corru-gated iron shed at the north end of the freight depot, and a stone block pavement was provided, on tho team side of this extension, at a cost of approximately ap-proximately $30,000; a wheel and axle repair shop was provided In the north yards at a cost of about $8500 and new buildings wero provided for housing track labor gangs in the yard. At Ogdcn, yard trackage is being extended ex-tended at a cost of approximately $100,000. Two-story extension to commissary com-missary building has been erected and additional laundry machinery installed at a cost of approximately $15,000. Paved teamways around tho f reight house have been built at a cost of about $16,000. At Pocatello, approximately $200,000 was expended for new structures, of which the more important we're a reinforced re-inforced concrete subway for shop employes em-ployes at Bridger street, at a cost of approximately $25,000; an extension, 141xlS0 feet, to the coach and boiler shop, and trackage to serve this extension, ex-tension, costing approximately $75,-000; $75,-000; an addition" to the power house iind heating apparatus costing approximately approx-imately $12,000; extending 15 stalls of 3ngine house at cost of $25,000; erecting erect-ing a ,24x1 20-foot brick building for use is plating and upholstering shop, at i cost of $10,000; a 44xl50-foot extension exten-sion to its machine shop, costing approximately ap-proximately $37,000. The railroad company com-pany has also under way the construction construc-tion of the first section of an additional addi-tional 12-lnch water supply line from Batiste Springs reservoir to Pocatello, fit a cost of $40,000. New 150-ton reinforced concrete coal chutes with crushers and sanding facilities, fa-cilities, were erected at Dillon at a :ost of $36,000, and at Melrose at a :ost of $32,000. At Shoshone, old machine shop auilding was converted into a six-stall engine house and new trackage constructed con-structed to serve engine house and aew coal chute, at a total cost of $18 -)00. To guard against washing out of its Yellowstone branch main lino track . by tho flood-waters of Snake river, the J railroad company constructed exton- 3ive dyke and revetment work just j north of Lorenzo, at a cost of approx- imately $15,000. , , oo ' FAME, tTh?. fir?1 th,nP r dld when I got an ! office, said Senator Sorghum, "was to i have a lot of photographs taken." J And wero they in demand?" 1 "They were. Jnsldo of twenty-four I hours I heard a man say he wanted a i good look at the picture of the roughneck wno had put it over on tho voters of his ' town," |