Gilpin observer., 1908-03-12
DENVER and
BOULDER LINE
ACTIVE WORK ON ELECTRIC IN.
TERuRBAN RAILROAD IS
BEING DONE.
TO Be RUNNING IN JUNE
HOURLY SERVICE TO BE EsTAB-
LIsHED BETWEEN DENVER
AND BOULDER.

Denver.-Work began Monday on
the construction of the new car barns
for the Denver & Interurban railroad
located at the corner of Twenty-third
and Market. The building will be 16S
feet on Market street with 125 feet on
Twenty-third. The front Of the build
ing will be on Twenty-third street.
This company reports now that ser
vice to Boulder will commence on
June 1st. The grade is completed to
Boulder and track laying is being
pushed vigorously. The track is laid
from Semper to point near the Globe
smelter and will probably reach the
city line this week. 1t connects at
Washington and West Fifty-second
avenue with the new Globeville line of
the Denver Tramway Company, con-
struction of which was commenced last
week and will be complete in sixty
days. The Interurban will use the
Tramway track from Globeville, over
the Twenty-third street viaduct and on
Twenty-third to Arapahoe and down
Arapahoe to Thirteenth street, where
cars will turn on Y.
Contracts have been let for the cars
and they are now under construction
in the East. They will be each pro-
vided with four 125 horsepower mo-
tors, giving each car 500 horsepower.
Time cards are being arranged and
will provide for hourly service between
Denver and Boulder from Z a. m. to
Z p. m. All trains on the electric line
will do local work and all the Colorado
& Southern passenger trains will run
express from Denver to Boulder. The
electric cars will make the time from
Denver to Boulder in fifty-five minutes,
from the postoffice in Denver to the
court house in Boulder. 1t will take
fifteen minutes of this time to get out
of Denver after which the schedule re-
quires forty-five miles per hour includ
ing stops.
The new line strikes the Colorado &
Southern right of way just north Of
Utah Junction and will follow that line
all the way, cars being run both by
Louisville and by Marshall. From
Utah Junction to Semper, the electric
line uses the new grade. but from Sem
per north the steam tracks will take
the new grade just constructed and
the electric line will take the track
now occupied by the steam line. This
will enable the steam trains to make
better time than they do now as the
new grade Is much lighter than the
old.
Superintendent Hartman reports
most OF the poles already set and the
work Of track laying and stringing the
trolley wire is being pushed with the
utmost yigor. The cars are flfty-flve
feet long and are modern in every re-
spect. Some of the cars are provided
with combination baggage compart-
ment to take charge Of the baggage and
express work.
The opening of this line will be
watched with considerable interest as
It will represent the first real modern
interurban service out Of Denver. 1t
Is expected that the opening of this
line will create a genuine real estate
boom In the country between Denver
and Boulder and at Boulder. The In
terurban company has purchased the
branch line from Marshall to the Edo
RADIO resort and 1t has been electrified
and will be operated by this company
during the summer. This is one of the
popular resorts and will be within less
than an hour from Denver by the new
line,