The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-22
GOULD SYSTEM
SPENDS MILLIONS
Bringing Men and Wealth Into Salt
Lake City.
UNION PASSENGER STATION
JOINT TERMINALS AND SHOPS
WILL BE BUILT HERE.

The Western Pacific railroad viii con-
meet salt Lake with San Francisco two
years from now, according to the state
ment of Geol sc ]. Gould himself. an
this enlargement more than 500, 100000
will be spent OF this amount several
million dollars viii be placed in Salt
Lake.
This extension Of the Gould system
win bring to Salt Lake
The Western Pacific railway.
The new union passenger station to
cost $500, 600.
The new joint terminals and freight
station.
New shops, the largest i'm the west.
New equipment for the Rio Grande
road and complete equipment for the
Western Pacific.
Salt Lake also Will be connected with
San Francisco by a line whose maxi
mum grade win be IL per cent.
Thousands to BE Employed.
Western Pacific construction has al
ready begun at both ends. Near Car
field Beach grading is now going on
In all 500 teams are now being used at
this end. Within six weeks 1900 men
will be at work. If the contractors can
procure them.
salt Lake is shipping and Quitting
point for the east end construction. BY
the beginning of next summer this work
will include boring tOgg tunnel
through Silver Zone mountain. For
this and the east end rock work Salt
I 81 ma al goods.
Tunnel boring requires as much eX-
pense per yard as ordinary grading
dGes per mile.
George Gould says all this work will
be pushed as fast as possible. THAI
means the largest possible number of
men and teams will be used and the
largest amount of equipment and mate
rial handled.
HaIf.MilIIon- Dollar Depot.
The new union passenger station will
OCCUPY ground between Second south
and Thir South streets on Fourth West
street In itself il viii require an eN-
pendituFe Of half a million dollars mere.
II Wilt a pretentiOus building, equip
ped along the latest designs OF engineer
ing and architecture for such purposes.
The new joint freight and passenger
terminals viii be an enlargement OF the
constitute a linking Of the two roads:
They will lie between Second South ana
Twelfth South streets in the territory
bounded BY Third West and Fourth
West streets. They viii be larger than
any other terminal yards in the Rocky
Mountain west.
The route by which the Western Pa
eific will enter Salt Lake has not yet
been announced. The road VIII come
east from Garfield Beach parallelinS
the salt Lake route tracks for some
distance 1t may enter the city by the
Saltair Beach road tracks, or may take
a route farther south. On this entrance
will in part depend the map OF the joint
terminals Either Will have the same
general effect on the &C. o.
on city property especially in the vest
end.
New Shops to Employ Hundreds.
The new shops will be built for both
Western Pacific and Rio Grande. The
Rio Grande shops now employ more
than 500 men. The new shops Will en-
ploy easily twice that number accord
ing TO authentic advices. At present the
Rio Grande road is building an addi-
ton to its shops in which TO build two
hundred new cars. These are neeued De-
cause of increased traffic and the vest
ern Pacific construction. In addition 10
the new Joint shops. round houses ana
other terminal buildings will be con
structed here. This work will for the
most part employ in this city mecnah-
les at skilled labor wages.
Labor in Heavy Demand.
The effect of Western Pacific and
other construction has been already
felt in demand for labor in salt Lake
that exceeds the supply. Within the
next few weeks the Western Paclhc
will employ at this end several thou-
eand men. according TO the statements
of contractors. TO meet this demand
employment agencies are already look
ing about for common laborers anu
teamsters Next summer the tunnel
boring viii call for TOckmen ana arm
runners mechanics. timber men, STA
tionaIY engineers. cooks and account
ants For the present the Toao VIII CIT
Gle Silver Zone mountain by "shoo
| fly" track. BY this means trains VIII
pass over the road while the tunnel
| construction is going on. But supplies
| for the east end and men VIII come
| from Salt Lake through Salt Lake. The
wages and the price OF good part Oh
| the supplies will be spent here.
Will Run Trains in TWO Years.
The influx OF wage getting laborets
and its effects on this. the nearest city
| TO their work, can be spoken OF only III
a general way. for figures would be
simply representations. But this city
will be not only the supply point nut
| the place where these men viii spend
| their earnings.
| OF the direct effects only part has
been mentioned. The indirect effects
can be only mentioned in part. A large
mining territory will be opened up
| tributary to Salt Lake. The Western
Pacific will run trains, says George
/ Gould. I'm two years. Salt Lake VIII
( then be a new freight and passenger
! gateway to the Pacific and the Orient.
I The grade of the new road is siighter
| than other existing grades to san
Francisco and the route only thirty
miles longer than the shortest Freight
| shippers know the meaning OF that