Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-03
Fag Ends of Winter Find Plans
Being Made for Out Door
Activities.
A BIG BUILDING CAMPAIGN.
Architects Say it win Come if
Labor and Material Re-
main Down.
Railroad Construction and Repairs
VIII Take Small Army With Pref
crcnccs to Salt Lake Married Men.

With Grounding day safely passed.
the fag ends Of hard and eventful
winter are approaching, while plans
for spring may be heard In the air
The hope for thu unemployed lies
in the spring. Winter shutdowns. so
marked this season, have occurred ev-
cry winter, but never so that the ef-
feet was so pronounced. Most of the
men out of work had out-of-door po-
sitions. Now they are wondering
what will happen when the spring.
time comes again. while those who will
make the things happen to elongate
wage lists are also getting ready for
action.
I'm taking On few men now, my
boy said an Oregon Short Line CON
struction sup erintendent to young
surveyor this morning; but nothing
to what we will take on in month
or two. Come around then and I'm
pretty sure 10 have something" He
was addressing man who in Novcm-
Der was getting 500 per month and
no expenses, ana at the end of that
month was discharged, with nstruc-
tons to keep in touch for the time Of
spring opening.
At the Oregon Short Line depot this
morning the preliminaries OF the first
piece of spring construction work are
to be seen, This is in the assembling
OF steam shovels, pile drivers. and eX-
cavating gangs for the big depot.
Back of this piece of work there is
hidden away IN railroad red tape an
interesting story of a building that
hard times didn't stop. When plans
We're laid aside all over the country,
and improvements ordered suspended,
the plans for this one depot We're tin
ished from the pile. and on the grounds
that a moral obligation existed he
tween the people of Salt Lake and the
railroad. 1t WAS allowed to go ahead,
while blue prints OF hoped-for inn
proVements all around were sldetrack-
ed into drawers. pending better times
Tho depot construction work Viii
give employment to 100 men. Vice
President Bancroft said this morning
that the usual spring oVerhauling OF
the road. would give employment to a
great many more, and he stated that
the policy of the road would be 10 give
preference to Salt Lake residents, and
among these married men. i'm all the
employment offered.
THE STREET RAILROADS.
LAS soon as the weather permits"
sale. General Manager Joseph S. Wells
of the Utah Light & Railway company
this morning, our track extensions
will be resumed. This will, of course,
mean the employment Of more mea,
and we expect to be able to use quite
q number"
The so new cars ordered for the
Salt Lake service are understood To
be complete at the present time, with
the exception Of one piece of machin-
cry, which when ready, will be fitted
30 oil 10 and thGV will ha at
ed westward ut once. There are now
60 cars in use in the city. so that prac-
tically the entire service will be rem
oYated.
BUILDING SITUATION.
"Only one thing will stop an active
building campaign in the spring" said
Architect c. s. Dallas this morning.
know OF great many buildings on
which people have been waiting for
break in the cost of labor and material
before beginning work. II contractors
bid on these buildings 80 per cent or so
under the figures OF last year, they are
sure to secure them. otherwise, OF
course. they viii go over till next sea-
SON. an they did to this season from
last. From this one source alone ! ex-
pect to see great building activity.
for ] anticipate that labor and material
viii both be reasonable, and VIII not re-
peat lnt IIllslhht VI lirl Hpllllk- Wut1
prices were pushed out OF all possible
reach"
These fields are only few in which
spring operations should be so heavy IS
to drian the mass OF unemployed back
to the payrolls. Unless the most I'M
expected sort OF reverses appear. things
from now on should get steadily better
In the whole labor outlook.
RAILROAD MONEY.
There is one source OF danger pointed
out today by several business men. 10
is that when railroad construction.
among the big lines shut down last fall,
force OF men larger than tho standing
army went out OF work between tho
Missouri and San Franclsco, These
men. It is held, we're The purchasing
power OF the country In which they
worked. and there can be no general re-
sumption OF business on old scales I'M
~ this big construction work IS re-
sumed. This in turn cannot be again
taken up until the railroads get their
big money" which they HAD difficulty
In getting through the floating OF bonds
year ago. The real place to watch
for signs OF fair commercial weather,
these people hold, win be the New York
money market for an announcement
that the roads have the money they
have wanted for over year. Then they
look for the rest OF the readiustment 10
old conditions 10 speedily follow, and
until then for Improvement 20 be only
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