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Show BIC SUM TO BE SPENTBY 0. P. Directors Authorize Outlay of $30,000,000 on Improving Improv-ing System Official confirmation that the Union Pacific railroad intends constructing; double track through Wyoming has! boon received In Ogden in an official! statement from the general offices at' Omaha, Neb. Directors of the road have authorized an expenditure of $30.000, 000 since tho railroads returned re-turned to private control. The figures do not Include the 125 miles of second track to oc constructed construct-ed in western Wyoming during the coming summer. President C. G. Grey has announced that 2,000 steel coal cars, costing 56.-000.000, 56.-000.000, have been ordered for summer sum-mer delivery. These cars will not bo permitted to leave Union Pacific, tracks. The $30,000,000 authorized is to purchase 2.000 coal "cars nt $G, 000, 000;. 100 locomotives at J6.500.000; 65 steel chair cars and baggage cars at $1,-500.000; $1,-500.000; 1,000 express refrigerator cars at $J. 000, 000. and miscellaneous' rolling slock at $2,000,000. I The Union Pacific budget Is being! taken up Horn by Item, and those ap-j proved will bo Immediately -an-' nounced, it Is stated. j |