The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-01

" ~ F1DvsDoVs Dul III LululG. WIFI the
great addition to traffic between the
Orient and this country, the saving will
amount to at least a million dollars
each year The carrying power of each
locomotive and train crew is at least
trebled, now that the heavy grades OF
the route around the north end of the
lake have been eliminated and the
curves dispensed with. A saving of
thirty-seven miles of distance is also
made and the disagreeable features OF
the desert stretch are no longer to be
reckoned with. 1t is no longer neces-
sary TO employ water trains for supply
ing the engines, as was necessary over
the old route, and the traveller is taken
Icm Ogden to Lucin, over 100 miles,
with scarcely an inch of grade or of
curvature in the road over which he
Is carried. incidentally. one of the
grandest scenic attractions on any road
III the world is furnished TO the pass
engers across this great trestIe
For twenty-three miles the roadbed is
across the Great Salt lake-one of the
most remarkable bodies OF water in
the world. Most of the way the road
bed has been filed in with rock and
earth so that the roadway is as solid
as is TO be found anywhere, while at
points where the water is very deep,
the substantial trestle has been made
so that the traveller is whirIed along
III NOAAlLOIL ana as safely as on anV 9TH
er part of the line.
Another important DEVELOPMENT for
ogden in a railroad way during the
year just closed was the completion of
new machine shops for the Southern
racine and the gradual drawing of the
greater part of the repair work from
the Oregon Short Line the Union Pa
enc and the Southern Pacific to this
city The shops have been doubled in
capacity and now employ about 700
men each month, the outlay in wages
III TINS one department of railroad work
being between S700, 600 and $500. 900 each
ear Other and more important extern
sions are looked for during the year
l9Vo. A paint shop has been located in
ogden and the painting of all the cars
Is 10 be done hereafter in this city
The western terminal of the Rio
Grande Western system is also in Og-
uen ana its activities are many. This
ROAD mas in Ogden the only plant for
supplying Pintsch gas for lighting pur-
poses to the passenger coaches through
out the whole intermountain region.
Olher points where a supply may be
OBTAINED are Butte, Portland. San
Francisco, Omaha and Denver. Cars
between Ogden and any of those cities
rave no supply point excepting the
junction city. The demand made nee
eSsary the charging of the plant this
past summer to double the caDacitv.
a new freight depot is another i'm
ploVement planned by the Rio Grande
western, and its construction is ex-
pected to take place this coming, sum
n'er. Additions TO the round house and
10 the yard room are also contemDIat-
ed IN order to make possible the han
uhhS or the growing business of the
road IN Ogden a considerable addi-
ton was built by this road to its ice
in
Iiouse IN order TO be prepared to fur
nIsh refrigerator cars.
The Hartman system has entered
INTO a general remOdeling of its wards
IN ogden, making the trackage conform
10 the general scheme of working To-
gether adopted for the three roads.
oregon Short Line, Union Pacific and
southern Pacific a big three-Storv
new freight depot is planned and it is
year 1905.
Taking into consideration the en-
pi3yes OF the sleeping car companies,
Feiri serator car lines. express COM
panles, railroad telegraph employees.
Runway "a mail service. baggage employees.
iIelghI handlers. transfer men and the
IKE II IS probable that the men en-
gagged in work dependent on the rail
roads entering the city will number
1000 ~ '0iii O1i
Besides the four great through s,,s-
TENS which have connections i'm Ogden
.he ogden d Northwestern road. owned
py local capital, is small but inDort-
anu me running northwest from Ogden
INTO BOX Elder county and does a
splendid local traffic in both freight and
passengers During the fruit season
TINS road handles hundreds of cars of
fruits hauling them from the orchards
10 the yards in Ogden whence they go
east The assessed valuation of Weber
county property a aggregates nearly sic
0OO'OCO, the termination being as col
lows:
railway. telephone and tele-
phone COIlpanipS go -9e