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Show I SOLDIER SUMMIT 1 01 IE 1 GUIDE Division Terminal Removed1 From Helper Change of 1 Great Railway Importance. Sonio idea of the large force of men that will be required for the Soldier Summit terminal and classification vards upon the completion may be gained from the fact that fully forty, freight train crews' of Ave men each will have their headquarters them, making: a mobile train crow force of over 200 men". Switching crews to the number of twenty-five men will be necessarv, while the dispatchers and the clerical force and superintendents .ind assistants will call for thirty ad-dltional ad-dltional men. The roundhouse will rc-quire rc-quire twenty-five men, tho heavy re-pair re-pair shop seventy-live, the light re--pair shop twenty-five, and ihc black -smith shop, machine shop, electric light plant, storerooms, coal chutes and clinker pits easily thirty men It is understood that many business men In Helper and other railroad tov.'ns on the Salt Lake and Grand Junction divisions are already locating sites Tor business houses in the new town of Soldier Summir. The construction and railway engl-neers engl-neers in charge of the work declare Uie yards can be completed and ready for the operating department by Do-comber Do-comber 1. as many scores of men arer at work at Soldier Summit and the building of the great "Y" that will serve all of the twenty-six miles of switching track has been completed, together with much of the grading in tho yards. As important as Soldier Summit will bo as the southern terminal of the Salt Lake division of tho D. &. R. O. 8-and as a classification point, these fac-tors fac-tors constitute only a portion of what seems to be the assured future of this new railroad town. Well-informed railway officials who have closely fol-lowed fol-lowed plans for tho proposed Uintah basin branclr, declare there can be Ht-tie Ht-tie question but that the Uintah line will start from Soldier Summit, run-ning run-ning first to Duchesne and then to My-ton. My-ton. Rumors havo been current for some time that the Uintah basin pro-ject pro-ject has already been planned, and that it may be only a question of a few months before work will actually be started on the new line that will tap one of the greatest and richest ag-ricultural ag-ricultural and cattle sections of the intermountain west. As the main line terminal of tho Uintah basin branch, the importance of Soldier Summit will be increased two-fold and the now town will enjoy prospects pt a very rapid and substantial growth. With great compound engines roll-ing roll-ing into the yards, while five big steam shovels, dozens ot little "dinkies" and trews of men are rushing work on the newest and most important construc-tion construc-tion of the present time now In the hands of the Denver & Rio Grand railroad company at Soldier Summit, 100 miles south of Salt Lake is being turned into the most important of aJ! terminal points on the western end or the D. & R. G. railway. Utahns will be interested in the de-tails de-tails of the 2,000,000 project of terml-nal terml-nal and classification yards making Soldier Summit the southern terminal of the Salt Lake division of the Den-ver Den-ver & Rio Grande railway. This ex-tensive ex-tensive work must 'be accomplished before December 1, the date set by the railroad officials. The Importance to the railroad cpm-pany, cpm-pany, and in turn to the public, of the decision that has finally been reached to establish classification yards at Sol-dier Sol-dier Summit instead of Helper may be imagined when it is known that for the past ten years it has been the ar-dent ar-dent desire of the railroad company, H the coal companies and everyone else interested in remedying the operating conditions tliat have existed on. the Salt Lake division of the D. fc R. R. to in-augurate in-augurate the work that is now under H This will mean that when Soldier Summit is established as a terminal H and classification point the total in- vestment ot ?2,000,000, which will in-H in-H elude the construction of over twen-H twen-H ty-six miles of yard and switching H tracks, tho erection of a fine railroad H hotel and eating house to cost in the H neighborhood of $40,000, the construe- H tion of a freight and passenger depot H 350 feet long, the cost of which will H run over G000; an engine roundhouse H capable of holding eighty giant loco- H motives, the erection of-a big railroad H storehouse, large coal chutes, an elep-H elep-H trie light and power house that will H furnish electric service for all the H company's holdings, together with the h construction and malntainance of. ex-1 ex-1 'ensive mechanical shops that will In- elude heavy and light car repairs, B blacksmith and machine shops, dis-patchers' dis-patchers' offices and quarters for di-vision di-vision superintendents and assistants. |