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Show RAILROADS WILL I SPEIJPONS More Than $700,000,000 to Be Put Out in General Improvements Railroads of the United States cx-j j.ect to spend 1 "s during t he present year, according to Willard G Wilson, traveling agent for the Southern South-ern Pacific. The money will be spent, for new equipment and for the gen-, eral Improvement of their transporta j Hon plants. outside of additional main and varrj ira. ks and sidings, shops, station fa-cllltifs, fa-cllltifs, extensions. I. ranches, generalj provision Is made for rolling stock. Including In-cluding substantially 1 100 locomotives. 30,000 refrigerator cars and about 1300 coaches. The expenditures for the western, district, which Includes ogden. Is fori additional main tracks. ti.tal $11,661.-. 000. More than ?15 "00. 000 la being expended for. additional yard tracks and sidings Signals and Interlocking! plants will be Improved In tltla district dis-trict to the extent of $...r.3.000. Sixteen Six-teen million dollars Is to be spent In1 the Improvement .f the shops. Station Sta-tion and station faellltles will !e improved im-proved to thr extent t . ' - '.. 6'' Three million dollars Is to be expended for extensions and branch lln-v All other various improvements will total for than $76,000,000 throughout the western pari of the I'nitefl States, ac- ordlng to Mr. Wilson. A total of 1I9,6S6.95I w-tll be expended ex-pended In the west for new locomotives, locomo-tives, box ars. open top cars, refrigerator refrig-erator cars, other freight cars, passenger passen-ger coaches, other passenger equipment, equip-ment, lmpro rments to existing equipment equip-ment and all other equipment The majority of the Improvement' on the various roads throughout the United Btatea have been made already but a great deal of ilv Improvements will be made during the remaining four months of the present year, according ac-cording to Mr Wilson. |