Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-26
NOT THIS WINTER.
6urIington's Building Plans Are
Postponed.
POOR BUSINESS Is THE OAUsF.

POOR BUSINESS Is THE OAUSF.
Drawings Completed for . Handsome
ana Commodious Depot Work On Which
It Is Assured Will Re Begun Not Later
Than Next Season.
1t is officially announced that no
work will be done OH the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railways con-
templated depot at the corner of
Second avenue and Twentieth street
tuis season. The cause assigned is
dull business. Officials of the Bur
'ington say that while the company
proposes carrying out to the letter
every detail in the original plans
with reference to the depot question.
it will not be done until another
year.
Plans OF the new depot are al
completed. They call for 2-story
building Of pressed brick with stone
trimmings. The depot will face
on Twentieth street where the
company has acquired about
ninety-three feet for building
purposes. while on Second ave
nue. the depot proper will occupy
something like $50 feet. Ea' OF this
will be the freight house and store
houses.
Then another reason for not COM
mencing on the building now is
owing to the latenes. of the season,
fearing that winter would steal in
lie
much damage. But when the depot
is completed-and that will be but a
few brief moons after work is started
in the spring-one Of the handsome
est and most commodious in this Sec
ton OF the state is promised; one
that will be credit to the city and
to the Burlington system.
Rock Isisnd Change.
A dispatch from Des Moines says
that it is officially announced that
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
road will next spring center its ma
chinery department Tor Iowa in VAL
lev Junction, a suburb Of Des Moines,
ad Looming the city on the west. The
company has let contracts for build
ing a new 22-stall rOundhOuse in adj
dition to one 1G-stall just completed
at Valley Junction. also foe new
engine shop of the same size as the
one now in operation. Further. a
car shop 25Oxl50 feet, the largest in
Iowa. has been contracted for. The
yards will be doubled in capacity.
The shops Mt Stuart and Brook lyn
will be closed down and the machin-
cry and equipment brought TO Val
ley Junction. The road has con-
trlcted with the persons at Valley
junction who donated them the
real estate to bring to that town
sixty train crews of an average five
men each. and all the machinists at
Brooklyn and Stuart except a few
for local repair work.
heIuestion which naturally occurs
to one is where all those train crews are
| coming from. While railroad men
who have families and property in
Rock Island view the contem plated
change with much seriousness.
many OF them feeling that il
means their transfer to Valley juno
ton, loca, officials say that this point
will not be affected unless for the
butter. This has become a grave
matter and one in which Rock LAND
business men should interest them
selves, and should affairs develop ac-
cording to the opinion of people we'll
posted in railway matters, the con-
sequence would be the removal to
Valley Junction Of nearly one hun
dred families. A large tract Of land
has been donated to the railroad
company at Valley junction in re-
turn for which it has agreed to in.
crease the population Of that town
to certain extent. Then the com.
pany may also be figuring on
the disposition of its land
to employees end building up
that town at the expense Of Rock I.l.
and. Hence it will be seen that
quite a serious question is confront.
ing the people Of this city. and il
order to set it at rest one way or the
other, business men should interest
themselves. Some railway EN-.
ployes now think that they will
be located at Valley Ju notion, which
|
of the east Iowa division, and be
obliged to run both ways-be.
tween the Junction and Council
Bluffs and from the Junction to Rock
Island. But. however. there is the
pleasant side to look at. as referred
to in The ARGUS OF last Saturday. in
the prospect Of the abolition oil
Brooklyn and Stuart as division ter.
minsls-that is the hope that many
new train crews will come here to
live. 1t all depends on the distribu-
ting point-if the men are to run
first in first out OF Valley Junction,
it will be a serious blow to Rock
Island.
Notes Of the Track.
The Muscatine switch engine is in
the Rock Island round house here fol
repairs.
Cashier j. +. Kane. of the Rocl
Island L. Peoria, 10 off on weeks va
cation which he il amending in Chi.