The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-02-11
R0admaster NickerSOn AT
Pives i'm Provo and
Starts up the Work.
Seventy-F We Thousand Ties
to be Used Between Provo
and Salt Lake.
Quicker Time 60 be Faade
and a Chair Car to be
Instituted.

of new ties, preparatory to placing |
the 6O-p0und steel rails between this |
CITY and Salt Lake. They came down |
in their special with the morning pas
senger. and remained in town until the
4:25 express went to Salt Lake. In
the afternoon Supt. Probet took the
party to the Asylum.
A DISPATCH reporter waited on Jhe
gentlemen, in company with Presi-
dent Probert, of the Street Raiload
company, and from them learned that
the work of replacing the line between
Provo and Salt Lake City would COM
mence Wednesday to-day.
I'VE viii put thirty-liYe men from
your town on the work, T" said Road
master Nickerson, land it is to start
them that we are here to-day. They
will commence operations on the 18th,
and work from this point north. We
find this cheaper than hiring one crew
to do the work, and it does away with
construction cars used for the men to
sleep and eat in. The men from your
town can be taken out every morning,
take their dinser with them, and be
brought back at night"
..How many ties viii it take for the
| forty-eight miles Of work, between here
and Salt Lake?"
1T will require about seyenty-fve
| thousand. :
1--WE have got $4,000 at the river
bridge, and the rest we will pick up
this side of SantaqWn."
rs that all the business that brought
you down to-day" we modestly en-
quired.
,.Well, no; we came down to see
after our ice interests.
Have you got all the ice you will
need for next season S SUPPLY
Yes. There is one more carload
| coming. when that gets here VIE vii
have our house filed. We were look
| inc at the ice house this morning, and
| found thereof wanted repairing. Supt.
| Corwin suggested that the work be
| done. but [ told him that the citizens
of Prose had t.--- -. on ll2- and that
| the first move we made JONaIU5 yffIK-
ering up any Of the buildings meant
their total demolition as tue people de-
mauded something new"
eyes, that is fact. Has anything
been heard from Headquarters III regard
to what the company proposes dong IN
the way OF a new depot?
Nothing at all. 1t will q rece8-
sity be some little time before they
get to that, but l am confident it will
4 understand that some changes
| have been made in the time cards Of
the road. When do they go into
effect?n
ION the fifteenth.
''Will it effect this southern diyi-
sion?''
yes, it makes a difference III sew
eral of the trains. For instance, the
morning trainsfrom the south will get
here at 7:l5. instead of 7:25, and the
afternoon train VIII get in fOrtJ-live
minutes earlier, OF at $40 p. m. The
| morning train from Salt Lake City will
reach here at 9:I5, instead of 9:..5, rs
now. The evening train from Salt
Lake will be the only one that will re-
main as it is. "
Are you making any changes on the
other lines?'
Yes, some very important ones. On
and after the 18th, we are going to run
to Denver in double quick time, 80 that
a person leaving Salt Lake City one
night can get to Denver the night
following
THE DISPATCH man then invaded
the superintendent special car, and
commenced prospecting around the
genial Corwin, After announcing
the party as the vigilance committee
from the Chamber of Commerce on
depot grounds, we asked Supt. Cor
win what he thought about depot
building.
'.Well, [ think the great amount OF
business handled at this station de-
; mands better facilities than the u. L,
has got here at present. l consider the
Importance of Provo justly demands
i5 and if had the saY-so, it would
not be many days before you would
find a good depot going up,
what do you think about the h
G. w. consolidating with the y. i.
and putting up good building?"
, well. that is my idea exactly, and
think tie u. p. management would
ike to see it that way. Because both
, roads putting their money into one
tructure would secure a better and
larger depot. Each line could have its
! freight yards distinct, while the ticket
| business could be attended TO by the
respective agents. [ say a union de
pot by all means"
Have you given the subject Of q
location any study"
, Well, yes, some; but nothing def
nila has been decided upon. There
VIII be plenty of time for that after
the depot building is settled y
While making Improvements in
your time table, don't you think you
could make some improvements in
our equipments?" The DISPATCH
+ nan inquired.
IN what way"
"Nell, say that you put on q chan
. car between Provo and Salt Lake, uu-
doub.edly it would result in much
good to your road. 1t is common talh
that the u. p. has got nothing but
broken down stock, while the II. g.
" has the best of passenger coaches
and of course it all has its effect on
traffic"
:, Tell, the r. G. w. run their first
class coaches because they've get nc
Oilers But we have talked oyer the
az disability of introducing the chan
ca, and probably we will get around
10 hat before long,
2es sir, broke in Supt. Probert
"y i have got to get rustic on you
& tell, sir; for we're going to have
tie ..nest city in the west, sir; and nc
fo3 either, sir. We think we are
entitled to more attention than we
have d, and before long sir, we will
have paid to us, sir just look al
our r;sition, sir Here is the lake,
an immense water power Smelters
ar furnaces could be built all around
il ST. And we have the huXes to ran
thp.a sir: yes, sir. Here's the iron
"a he coal, and the limestone, and
the w grade ores from Tintic, from
Biz. ham, from Park City, from Mount
Nebo. and all the regions round
about; yes, SIT. Did you never think
Of itY Did you never take into con-
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