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Show DENVER & RIO GRANDE RAILROAD COMPANY , MAKES VAST IMPROVEMENTS ON UTAH LINES A '' Will Begin Construction Work on Double-track Detour De-tour Line Over Soldier Summit; Will Electrify Elec-trify Entire System at Once. President Bush and Vice-President Bi own, of the Denver & Rio Grande, has authorized the immediate construction con-struction of the double-track detour line over Soldier Summit, where the railroad crosses the Wasatch Mountains Moun-tains in Utah. The present line between Tucker and Soldier Summit is seven miles long and the grade four per cent, or 211 feet to the mile. The new line between the same points will be fifteen fif-teen miles long with grade reduced to two per cent, or 105 1-2 feet to the mile. The reduction in the grade , and curvature will more than offset lLthe increased mileage, r The cost of this work will be approximately ap-proximately three millions of dollars, being the most important improvement improve-ment yet authorized by the Denver & Rio Grande under the new management. man-agement. Contracts will be let within ten or fifteen days, and it is anticipated that the work will be completed by July of next year. . This large expenditure has been awthorized by the Board of Directors because of the rapidly increasing traffic incident to the opening of the Western Pacific Railway, as well as to take care of the enormous coal and coke outputgoing from the Utah mines to the Salt Lake, Nevada and Montana smelters and reduction piants. Other factors influencing the decision are the anticipated growth in passenger traffic on account ac-count of the Panama-Pacific Exposition Exposi-tion at San Francisco and the increased in-creased freight business sure to follow fol-low the opening of the Panama Canal. Vice-President Brown, also announced an-nounced upon his return from New ' -f York that the first steps in electrify-ing electrify-ing the entire Denver & Rio Grande j system are to be taken at once. jThatmeai.s that millions of dollars j in improvements are to be expended j and that the Denver & Rio Grande I is to become the first road through the Kocky Mountains to be operated by electricity. "The first unittobe electrified will be from Helper, Utah, to Salt take C ty, a distance of 121 miles," said Mr. Brown. "This work will cost $3,000,000." |