Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-19

the south side will be two stories high ana
facing on the upper tracks The building
will be OF brick and cost about teo.oOa IL
will be used for handling supplies for the
dining cars and for the eating houses
along the road. The upper stories will be
used as ofnces for Superintendent Ware
The most expensive work the Union IA
cino Is doing In this county IL the building
OF the Lane cutoff from eouth Omaha to
Lane. a station directly west OF South
Omaha and on the present line OF the
Union Pacific. The present line makes .
regular or bow into sarpy county and By
the new line nine miles viii be saved. which
is considerable in this age Of speed and
heavy loads. The new road presents some
engineering difficulties. as II is run In q bee-
line turning neither to the right nor TO the
left. Some of the biggest nils IN this sec-
ton of the country are to be seen on this
line, that over the Little Pappio being
ninety feet. Tressel work is being built on
these fills and dirt flied In by dump cars.
This cut-off will cost the linton Pacific
s2,50o0o0. The double-tracking has been nm
ished from Lane to Valley, 30 with the
completion OF the cut-off the Union Pacific
will be we'll provided with outlets from this
city. as the old track will be used for slow
freights and stock TO South Omaha.
Northwestern's Big Move.
In the last two or three years the North
western has expended no money in buiid-
ings or tracks In Omaha. Substantial in-
proveinents in the shape OF roundhouss
and extension OF yards were made In South
Omaha In 1901 but since that the road haa
done nothing In the building line In thu
vicinity.
1t has, however planned ana berun
turo OF about 100000 In good hard coin
right here In the city, half Of that snounf
for real estate and half for grading, build.
ings and laying tracks. For years the Web
ster street freight house OF the Chica@o
St. Paul, Minneapolis q Omaha road has
been too small for the business. ana finding
traffic still growing at rapid rate the
oriclsis OF the road decided last sprinR ON
new and larger depot
Through local real estate firm the com
pany bought four blocks OF ground lying
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets
and between Webster ana Davenport, also
part Of the first block north OF webstes
street, the remainder Of which was already
owned by the railroad. As this tract was
the home OF nearly 100 families, Il required
q mint of money to buy them out and the
company claims to have paid ;s0o,oco tos
the real estate.
All but four or Ave OF the houses on the
tract have been torn down or moved away.
and the work OF Improvement will be be.
gun this week. when w. B. Cronk OF Min
neapols, who has the contract for tho
grading, will arrive with q force of mon
and steam shovel About 10000 or 7eo0
yards of earth will be removed to brins
the ground to grade.
Two Freight pepots,
Two new freight depots are to be builN
costing about 100000 each. Only one win
be built this fall, and It will be for out.
going traffic while the old Webster strees
depot will continue In service for incoming
freight. Next year another depot will BE-
built, parallel to the one which 10 to b
erected this fall, and It viii be used fol
Incoming freight. while the old depot prob
ably will become a storage house. The p
length Of the new depots will be nor,'~ ma
south and they viii extend r.. .sS,ayen-
port to Cass.
The depot which Is to be erected this far
will be 7S feet In length, including the
ONCE building on Davenport street which
will be eighty feet on Davenport street
and fifty feet In depth. ana viii DO two
stories and basement The depot proper
will be thirty-fve feet in width.
Four tracks will be run along the wess
side Of the building and one Of them win
be under the shed which extends over the
platform. The east side is to be left un-
INSTRUCTED for wagons. The second depot
will be to the west of the first, parallel IN
1t and Of practically the same dimensionr