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Show Big Grading Contract Let By Rio Grande Denver, Nov. 19. Vice-President Brown, of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, yesterday awarded to the Utah Construction Company, of Og-den, Og-den, Utah, contract in the sum of $1,500,000 for the grading of the new double-track detour line over Soldier Summit, where the road crosses the Wasatch Range in Utah. This change involves the building of fifteen miles of new line and reduces the grade from four to two per cent. Construction Con-struction will commence at once, an contract calls for completion August 1st, 1913. The work will be very heavy and will include onp tunnel 255 feet long. There will be no bridges, but numerous concrete arches. arch-es. The new line' will be laid with 90-lb., 90-lb., steel rails, rolled at the plant of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, Pueblo, Colo. The track will be ballasted bal-lasted witii Jordan Narrows gravel. |