The daily sentinel., 1909-11-23


on December 5th for New York to
purchase the cars and other passen-
ger and freight equipment for the
interurban.
Latest Type of Cars.
The latest type of interurban cars
will be secured for the new system.
They will be big double cars, each
containing passenger, smoking and
baggage compartments and each will
accommodate between 10 and 30 pas
sengers. The cars will be equipped
with all modern safety devices, air
brakes, hot water heaters, the seats
Will be handsomely appointed and
most comfortable, there will he toilet
facilities and all modern arrange
ments.
VIII Start With Hour Service.
IL is stated that the passenger SER
vice will be started with an hourly
schedule, in other words. one passen-
ger car will leave Grand junction ey-
cry hour for Fruita and one car will
leave Fruita every hour for Grand
Junction. This service will be chang
ed TO provide for more frequent runs
when necessary.
How VIII Handle The Fruit.
The fruit shipments over the inter
urban will be handled in standard
cars, probably operated by electrical
locomotives.
A fruit loading station will be
placed every mile, and every facility
and accommodation will be furnished
the fruit grower and the ranchman.
To BE Three Passing Thacks.
II Is announced that there will be
three passing tracks between Grand
Junction and Fruita. These will be
equipped with telephone dispatch
service and all improved safety de-
vices,
Every detail of the operation of the
system is being carefully worked out
and there is no question but what IA
most admirable and popular service
will be maintained at all times. The
men behind the proposition propose
to make the system one of the best
and most satisfactory ever construct
ed In the West. Judging by the most
excellent service provided on the city
street car system II is easy to believe
that the interurban service will be
first-class in every particular.
No city of its size, remote from a
big city, in the country today has a
better street car service than Grand
junction is enjoying and the general
comment of the people from day to
day proves the truthfulness of this
assertion. For the size of the system,
no city, whether near big metrop-
oils or not, enjoys better service in
any way than the street car system
is furnishing Grand Junction.
The Length of The System.
The permanent survey shows that
the interurban road will be exactly
10 0-1O miles long. There will be
about 800 feet of trestle work neces-
sary.
The passenger ears will run into
Main street mt Twelfth in making the
big loop.
VIII Employ About 300 Men.
General Manager Sunderlin states
that in all about 300 men will be
employed when the actual construc-
tiOn work on the system starts. The
work will he pushed as rapidly as the
weather will permit and IL is possible
that the big system will he ready for
operation before June 1, but General
Manager Sunderlin is making no
promises to that effect. The employ
ment of this big force of men through
the last half of the winter will he n
decided lift to local labor circles.
The Power Question Is Settled.
The question of motive power is
not worrying the management in the
least as the installation of the 500
GOO worth of new machinery. to in
crease the capacity of the big plant
in this city, as announced exclusively
by The Sentinel some weeks ago, will
be made within the next ten weeks.
Talk of Other Units.
President Curtin and General Man
ager Sunderlin had nothing to say
regarding the probability of the early
construction of the Palisade line.
That all depends on the right-of-way
question. The company is now de-
voting its attention to the Fruita
line
Orchard Mesa People Anxious.
There was held last night on Or
| chard Mesa n meeting to discuss the
proposition of getting the railway
company to build an interurban com