Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-28
Tardy Ones Notified They Must
Vacate BY the End OF
This Week.
DIRT TO FLY ON THIRD SOUTH.
Work on the Big d. & n. G. and
Western Pacific Station is to be
Pushed TO the Limit.

The Rio Grande has at last passed
out the word which means that the
Gould depot is to be really built in
the spring All tenants of houses on
the site have been notified that they
must be out of their homes by Feb. !.
or their residences will be torn down
over their heads. This decisive mess
age IL already resulting In a general
exodus from the neighborhood bounded
by Second and Fourth Sbuth and Fourth
West streets. Occupants OF houses
were requested to be out by fall and a
large number moved, but little has been
done towards clearing the site, although
few houses have been torn down and
the debris removed However. It's get
up and SO, now. and the word Is re-
peated that work is to be started upon
the new half-mllion terminal early In
Spring--which means within two or
three months. The railroad company
is DESTROYS OF having the property clear
so excavating can be commenced In
plenty of time TO permit actual con-
struction being started In a month or
so.
The site for the new depot occupies
the west half OF the block between Sec
ond and Fourth South streets, just be-
low Fourth West. The building and
grounds win be over a thousand feet
long. and will face up Third South
street The building will have wing
TO the center of the block on each side
of Third South. Tracks We're laid
along Fourth West to the site some
months ago, and at the time it was ex-
planned that these were to afford an
entrance to the grounds. Debris can
be removed from the neighborhood ana
material brought in from the switch
yards of the company, a small gang
of men has been at work tearing down
houses for some time past, but thus
force will be increased TO over doupie
it's present size to commence work IN
good shape at the first of next month,
The company bought big tract OF
property and paid literally Tor me
homes II Is now waging war or de-
structiun against.
The plans and details have been COM
pleted and accepted and a few last
minor details are now being worked
out in the Denver offices and III New
York. General Manager a. c. Ridge
way Is in Salt Lake but Is visiting the
Western Pacific today with = W
Derrah, assistant general freight agent
OF the Rio Grande Western. Oticlals OF
the Gould lines have been profuse III
their promises for Salt Lake and time
and time again have assured this city
that 1t is to get the finest terminals In
the west The new depot as planned
will stand comparison with any in the
west and will be adequate to meet all
demands made upon IT for years. Care
full thought has been paid the arrange
ment OF terminal facilities for this city
as Salt Lake is destined y be one of
the biggest and most Important rail-
road centers In the west in few years
and the depot as planned by the RIO
Grande has been so laid as to insure ex-
ceilent accommodations for traffic. in
creasing In passenger and freight form
with rapid strides. Announcement has
been made that 1000 men will be need
ed to carry the construction OF this
building and attendant improvements
TO hurried complexion.
with the erection of handsome new
depot the Rio Grande and Western Pa
cifc promise the city large shops on
the Church farm. Work on these viii
be commenced during the spring or
early summer.