Show IMPROVE improvement HENT ie it union PaCi fleg s jew railroad lards yards being beim cons wroth Wro strad td til HOI 1101 SE ICE HOUSE AID CO IL 1 l SHOOT id iles of beir r truest central general tearing donn Buil boldine up u and n macint oil old khints JW str there is a rood good deal of improvement ing on about bout the railroad yards of the he union pacific system it ia is not i jp noticeable to the casual beerger be erver because of the unfinished condition of th the 0 work A walk alk of a j I 1 few minutes to the west of the union depot will take one to a scene of 0 activity A little I 1 inquiry will w ill disclose die clofe close tile fact that the nearly workmen the piles of barek lk and lumber and imn inn and rock and railroad road flee ties and rails railroad jail mean mem cock the con construction truc tion of one of the I 1 most conveniently appointed and extensive railroad yards in in the west I 1 the 1 he yards will extend from a point between twenty fourth and twenty fifth elreeta to a point between T enty I 1 eighth and twenty ninth streets reeta sl the length is 13 3 feet and the width I 1 J feet the land runs parallel with the I 1 h t old main track of the union Iaci pacific F which was laid on the west bide side of the old depot the aggregates from twelve to fit ern milts mik all the old track ack will f be torn up and new sixty pound steel rails will ill be belaik laid when tini finished shed the f I 1 yards will look as bright as a new silver dollar but the immense yard bus nefa will ill soon wear the newness away aw ay I 1 and a substantial businesslike business like ap perance will follow the solidity of the tile place will be in harmony with the judy industrious irions rolling of trains the i shrieks ka of the whistles and the ringing of the bells the old traps of buildings are being torn toru down and the debris moved the mud holes will w ill be filled up and in their places will appear three substantial euli and neatly finished buildings which are in course of construction these are the round bou house ice hou house seand and coal shoot the latter including or connected with a sand house U V N t correll engineer in in charge has the entire supervision of the work the moat most important of these is is the round house honse IP yet an unfinished condition but enough of it is up to give eone one an idea of its extent it will contain twenty stalls the balls walls of brick and otone and the floors of heavy wood with large wooden pillars for support there will be a like number of tracks connecting the stalls with a large larze turntable the walls are up and ten of the stalls are built with h the exception of laying the floors the erection of the tile turntable is is progressing as rapidly aa as the extremely bad weather has permitted the men are under tinder serious diar difficulties wading through deep mud and being hindered by snow scow and rain dut but the weather gives good indications at present and the aright sunshine eune hine will wi eoon soon settle the mud question A to temporary M 0 r ary track is a being laid ao so as to 31 allow 11 the use of the turntable even before the round house is completed about yards of gradi grading h has already been done and t the e bu building iding and grounds are steadily assuming shape at this the north end of the yards the cost of the round house and find appurtenances will be about 00 and the contract work is being h ing done b by N 0 chapman of minneapolis alose whose foreman james erskin has immediate charge the immense ice ice houfe which I 1 is 8 constructed at the east end of the yard is la on the site where the old union depot used to stand this building lias jim been rearing its great balk bulk to view for some time and it is now nearly completed ita its capacity ial 20 2500 tons of ice and the dimensions are felt long by 30 feet wide it will cost cow the other building which has been lately begun and which is is one of the important features of a railroad yard is the coal shoot and sand house alie coal shoot will a contain forty pockets CO constructed to load cars quickly atis this building will cost baire beire before the summer is over improvements improve menta will hae have been finished and the union pacifica new yards will vill match the pas pa enge and freight depota and give that be section C tion of the city the appearance of thrift and neatness which will be an ornament to the junction city |