Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-01
BIDS FOR THE NEW SHOPS
Proposals Being Received for Erection Of
Union Pacific Buildings,
NEARLY MILLION DOLLARS TO Be COST
Hartman Cut-On to Lincoln IL Con-
sidered n Sure Thing a.
Well a. n Good
st,
One.
Y MILLION DOLLARS TO Be COST

BIDS are being received for the new car
shops for the Union Pacific at Omaha and
work will be begun as soon as possible
These shops will require an outlay on the
part Of the Union Pacific OF $4,000 and
will give employment when finished to q
vast army of new men. Work on the COM
missary building is delayed because the or
iginal plans were destroyed at San Fran
cisco. where they had been sent for final
approval to Mr.. Isaacs, who is supervising
architect for the Hartman system. Dupn-
cate plans had to be prepared and these
took considerable time.
Union Pacihc's New Line.
Although The Bee has mentioned the
presence of engineers In the field several
times between Omaha and Lincoln, General
Manager Mohler still refuses to confirm the
report the Union Pacific is to build a line
from Omaha to Lincoln. The matter has
gone SO far, however, that his refusal to
confirm will not shut out the fact that
this line will be built and that in the inn
mediate future. The real object Of the line
| is short route for the Union Pacific be-
tween Omaha and Kansas City.
Two lines now run between these two
towns and both do enormous business
and the field is ripe for the Union Pacific
to have this short connecting link between
| its north and south roads. The line of tho
| Union Pacific between Kansas City and
Omaha is now from Omaha to Valley, to
Lincoln and Beatrice, south TO Manhattan
and thence through Topeka to Kansas
| City.
The line from Omaha to Lincoln will be
run directly as the crow flies from Gilmore
to Lincoln, thence south to Marysville,
where a new cut or will be built between
| Marysville and Onaga to connect with the
| line just completed from Onaga to Topeka.
| This route will make great cuts in mileage
| In the present route and will make a nice
| nights run between Omaha and Kansas
City
The road will run through the capitals of
| two states and travel splendid country
| all the way.
| John Francis in the City.
| John Francis, general passenger agent OF
| the Burlington at Chicago and formerly To-
! Gated at Omaha, is in the city for a few
| days visiting old friends and incidentally
showing the boys what he has learned OF
golf at Chicago, where he has the cracks
| for opponents.
There is great activity in the east for
western land investments" said Mr.. Fran
els. People in the east who have invested
in western lands in the past and have found
them such profitable investments have slim
ulated their neighbors to invest and a con-
siderable force of men is required in our
Chicago Office to answer inquiries and to
put people in touch with the proper agen-
ces throughout the west. There is par
| ticularly large inquiry at present as to the
! Shoshone reservation lands which will be
opened next month Worland, being the
principal place Of registration and being so
situated that those going that way will
pass through the heart of the irrigated
lands of the Big Horn basin, is a promi-
nent factor in the inquiries which we have
received. We are making extensive prep
arations to handle the large volume of
business in a careful and comfortable man
ner."
New Towns the milwaukee,.
The new Black Hills extension of the Chi
| cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway mas
just been completed to Murdo, s. D., a
point seventy-fve miles west of Chamber
lain, and train service will be inaugurated
to this point early in July A public sale
| of town lots will be held at Vivian, fifty
two miles west Of Chamberlain, and Draper
| sixty-ive miles west of Chamberlain, on
July IL, and at MurdC on July II.
Railway Notes and Personals.
! John Scott. formerly rate clerk in the
passenger department of the Union Pa
| cihc at Omaha, has been appointed assist
! ant general passenger agent, vice william
! McMurray, who has been promoted to be
/ general passenger agent of the oregon
| Railway and Navigation company.
The Milwaukee has just sent out two of
the largest gangs Of ldborers ever secured
| by any railroad at one time to work on the
double tracking of its lines now in prog
Tess from WATERFOWL TO Portage and from
| Lacrosse to Minneapolis. Traffic has been
SO heavy that the double tracking of the
main line for the entire distance has be-
| come an absolute necessity.
| Railway Mail Clerk +, h Anderson has
| been transferred to the Missouri Valley
| and Long Pine division from the Omaha
and Ogden division. Thomas Craig has
been transferred from the Columbus and
| Albion division to the Omaha and Ogden
| division, vice Anderson Martin Petersen,
| substitute, has been appointed to the CO.
| lumbus and Albion division. vice Craig,
| transferred. W illiam S. lockwood, subsu-
tute, has been appointed to the regular
transfer service, wee r. G. Roberts, de-
! tached to office duty in the office OF the
chief clerk of the Omaha branch of the
Sixth division.