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Show IMPROVEMENTS IN THE YARDS ' -'' i Engineer Campbell Has a Large Force of Men on the Freight Depot Where Hundreds of Tons of Steel Has Been Placed Changes in - Yards of Great Advantage to the Local Terminals. r examined, including Detective Pender. Depot Master Shields, Conductor McCullough, Dave Mattson, Senator i Kuchler and Harry Joseph of flalt Lake. The evidence obtained was to the effect that Bradley becamo interested In thy mine through having heard a woman friend talking of it. Het visited vis-ited tho mine ard was given piece of ore to have assayed. Some of this ore he gave to John Shields, who in turn gave it to Conductor Con-ductor McCullough The latter took It to Assaycr Black in Salt Lake and the results were startling. Dave Mattson, John Shields and others became Interested and secured the services of Harry Joseph, an expert ex-pert miner. The party inspected the mine, and having obtained samples of the ore, had tbem assayed. No showing show-ing of gold was found in thefe. The defense made a point through Detective Pender, who stated that in r talk with Bauer the latter had stuted that he would willingly pay Sl.OOrt if the prosecutor would drop the case. The defense argued that Bauer offered of-fered the thousand dollars to Bradlov In case ho was dissatisfied with bit bargain. The state finished Its Introduction of testimony this morning after a brief continuation of the examination of Fred Bradley, and rested the case. Attorney Chez for the defendant moved for tho dismissal of the case, claiilng that the state had failed to prove that the mine had Wn salted by -Mr. Barer or that Mr. Bauer had any Intention of defrauding anybody in tho transaction between himself and Mr. Bradley. The motion was denied de-nied an J the continuation of the case fd for July 2C. at which date the defendant's de-fendant's attorney will determine whether he will introduce evidence in rebuttal. The defendant's bond has been fixed at $5fio, in default of which he is In the custody of the sheriff. In speaking with a representative of the Standard thin morning regarding tho history of the cjolien Rule mine. j "Within the past two weeks three i I hundred tons of steel has been used j in the construction work on the now j Uarrlman freight depot. Such Is the ; progress that Is now being made on the structure, i According to Engineer A. Q. Campbell, Camp-bell, tho quarter of a million dollars' worth of improvement work started this spring will bo complied by the first of November, as there is now plenty of material on hand together with a sufficient for:e of labor, j Just now the main force of men ! is at work on the freight depot and the concrete work on this building 3 practically completed. The steel girders ore in place and all that 1? J lacking to complete the exterior part ; of the building is the roof and sheet-ed sheet-ed steel sides. The roof - will be of corrugated steel and the work of placing jt will start next week. The laying of this root will not take many days. The work of the side steel which includes the nunglng of tho lift doors, v: ill be more of a taak. The freight office, which will be situated at the southern end of th brilding, will be of steel and brick r.nd the brick work Is to start within with-in a few days, the steel structural work being already completed Both office and freight department will bi absolutely fire proof, no combustible r.iaterlal entering into their construction. construc-tion. The buildings will be well lighted light-ed with incandescent liehts and the wiring probably will bo started tomorrow. to-morrow. Engineer Campbell, under whose supervision the work is being done, has Just returned from a little business busi-ness trip out of the city. He stated this morning that the work Is progressing prog-ressing satisfactorily. Commenting upon what the Har rlraan system has been doing in Ogden Og-den In the last few years, Mr. Camp-, Camp-, bell said that, when the improvements now under way are completed, it will mean that within the last three years and a half the system has expended eight hundred thoufnd dollars jn this city. siiuu'r-u on me muuniain suae immediately imme-diately east of Seventh street, M. Bauer said that the property had been developed years ago, about the year lSf9, at which time a t'jnnel of about three hundred feet had been driven, and ore taken from tho vein that was encountered. The digging of the tunnel was before be-fore the time of tho railroad in this section of the country, and the ore taken from the mine, Mr Bauer said, was hauled to Salt Lake for treatment In the smelters there. The values, however, he said, were not high fnnough to justify hauling tho ore any great distance by team and the workings were finally abandoned. The ore In those days ran from $0 to $10 in gold About a year ago Bauer resumed the development of the property, with the result, so he says, that a streak of ore containing good values was encountered and a company known ns the Ooldcn Rule Mining company was formed and incorporated, with Krrd M. Bradley as secretary and ' Bai:er as president. One a?iay from the mine created a sensation, showing $950 in gld. who values in silver and copper. Other" assays made from ore taken from the mine, the vein being sampled every two feet, showed no values alove 5 cents in gold. This led to an investigation investi-gation on the part of Mr. Bradley, who had purchased an interest In the mine, the disclosure being, according to testimony given In court, that tbe only values found were In samples offered of-fered by Bauer. i now nave a payroll ot $10, ft: i per month," he paid, 'made up of men who are engaged In the improvement work. When it is rinished there will not be a better equipped termlnul point on the whole Harrlman system. By the improvements made and already al-ready in effect, the road has cheapened cheap-ened the cost of handling freight in the local yards by $10,000 per month This does not mean that we are employing em-ploying a smaller force of men in the lrelght departments, but that comparatively com-paratively the same force of men are handling so much moro freight than formerly that the difference In cost is made up. "I can hardly estimate what tho saving to the railroad will be when all the improvements are completed, but, oi course, it will be very large. "The raihoad Is not the onlv bus- incss that will be directly benefitted by the new freight house. All the j shippers or any of the local business' men who receive good from the depot de-pot will be directly benefitted. For instance, we are paving near Wall y venue with heavy stone blocks and concrete so that draymen in hauling haul-ing goods away can carry nearly twice as much in weight as formerly. This ought to mean a considerable saving to the persons who have goods hauled from the depot. This consideration will be especially appreciated ap-preciated by those who have hauling to do In the wet seasons of the year." Speaking of the freight depot, the engiueer staled that 47.000 squure feet of concrete has been put in the floor of this building. There are two concrete con-crete mixers working continuous. using about seventy five barrels of cement dally. J A small "gib" crane, to be installed i.-( the north end of the frleght house, has just arrived and will soon be put Into place. The transfer platforms arc now r.earing completion, the s,tecl supports sup-ports for the umbrella roofs having been finished. With these, the de-depot de-depot will have facilities for handling one hundred and twenty-five cars. It is most likely that the freight depot will be completed before tho umbrella track coverings at the passenger pass-enger depot are built. |