The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-05
SHORT LINE YARDS
HIVE OF INDUSTRY
Splendid Progress Beinq Made
With the Extensions and
improvements.
FIVE HUNDRED MEN
ARE NOW EMPLOYED
Work Will Occupy Two Years and
Cost Will Be About
$1.500,OOO.

y visit TO the yards of the Oregon
snort Line In the northern part of the
city develops the fact that splendid
progress is being made with the ex.
tensionSand improvements being car
r,ed out there From Fourth North
10 second South and extending from
Ihird TO Fourth West Is n perfect hive
OF Industry, somewhere In the neigh
porhood of 500 mon being employed.
Last month the payroll carried the
names OF 500 employees, but the num-
Der huctuatcs and the regular force
employed is about the number stated.
Freight Depot and Hide House
At present men are busy on tho new
freight depot, a structure 700 feet
long, work on the steel superstructure
OF which has lust been completed.
Ground is now being cleared for the
transfer platform. which will be 400
feet long, rooted, and Will be west Of
the freight depot; and the ground Is
also being graded for the freight
tracks, OF which there will be seven.
The depot will cost $4,000. On the
north side OF South Temple, near the
corner OF Fourth West and just oppo-
site the freight depot. q large hide
house Will be erected This building
Will be $50 feet long and 81 feet wide
and will cost SIS, 900 Ground will be
cout"se OF a few weeks
Grading the Yards
An improvement which will occupy
considerable time will be the grading
OF the entire yards for a distance Of
some seven blocks. At present the
yards are not level, a grade running
up to North Temple and descending On
the other side, The grade of the yards
iS he rIlt down q honf Ave Thus
making them entirely level and elm
mating a danger which has been a
constant menace to brakemen work
ing on top of the cars, the unevenness
OF the track, This evening-up Of the
yards necessltaSes another expensie
piece OF work, that OF sinking the
City creek conduit which crosses the
yards on North Temple, from Third
to Fourth West. The conduit will
have TO be sunk six feet deeper so as
to permit the reduction OF the track
grade, and thus involves considerable
work and expense.
Viaduct TO Cost 100000.
1t is at this point. North Temple,
that the viaduct will be thrown across
the yards. The span. which Will cost
100000. will start on Third West
and. spanning all the tracks, viii get
down TO ground level again about the
middle of the block, between Fourth
and Fifth West The viaduct will
carry a street car track and wagon
road. besides the sidewalks for pedes-
trians, and work Will commence on
the structure In the near future.
Work on New Depot.
The new depot, the main entrance
to which Will be on South Temple
promises 10 be an extremely hand
some building The entrance VIII be
surmounted by high tower. and the
wings Will extend $50 feet north and
south. making the total length OF the
station 800 feet Ten passenger tracks
| Will enter the depot. The estimated
cost OF the terminal is 100000. and
IL Is fully foretold that IT Will be a
| structure OF which every citizen oi
Salt Lake may be Justly proud 1t is
expected that work Will begin on the
building early this fall.
Complete Transformation.
| Some idea may be obtained of the
extent OF the improvements and the
| importance OF Salt Lakes position In
| the railroad situation OF the country,
when il is stated that between Third
and Fourth West on South Temple
there Will be no less than thirty-two
! tracks To cover the cost of oil these
| improvements Sl'pVotVVV ioo
proprIated, about s200,O0o of which has
| hcan already expended. 1t will be two
Years vet before all the work VIII be
completed. but when 1t is II will be e
| complete transformation.
A boat building yard is also in opera
ton in the railroad yards at present
| This may seem like paradox, but II
| is none the less true. Carpenters arr
busy making six fiat bottomed hous'
boats to be used as quarters oy I'M
! ena,ineerjne CORDS who are surveying z
rnsa along the banks OF the Snake rivel
from Huntington, Or, to Lewiston