The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-30
RAILROADS POUR
MONEY INTO UTAH
Six Million Dollars Expended
by One Company During
This Year.
FOUR MILLION OF THIS
is PAID OUT IN WAGES
0ne-Third of a Million Is Paid
Into the State in
Taxes.

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S37 enlisted men and 81 officers-sSS
men in all Should regiment of sol
ders parade the streets Of Salt Lake,
the Twenty ninth infantry stationed mt
Fort Douglas, for instance, it would be
most imposing parade and would at
tract thousands of people along the line
of march. These men comprise part
of the army for war-Unclc Sam's boys.
Suppose YOU were told that cor
poration doing business IN Utah could,
If it were necessary, turn out IN a par
ade five regiments of men, whose
vocation is that of peace: that
from one department or this cor.
poration in the city of Salt Lake that
a regiment could be mustered, you
informant with curiosity, TO say the
least. But it would be true.
Suppose you were told that this cor
poration employed 4l20 men in the
state wherein you live, and that 1t paid
those men, composing. this great army
which pursue a peaceful vocation. S55,-
900 every month IN wages, almost tour
which is spent in Salt Lake City, you
would still be incredulous and question
the veracity of your informant. But
the statement would be true.
Improvement in Salt Lake.
Suppose the person who was impart-
ing this information should tell you
that this corporation, without any flour
ish of trumpets. without asking any aid
from you, would this year spend. In ad-
dition to the four millions, an addl"
tional million dollars, and that this sum
would be expended for Improvement IN
Salt Lake City alone, you would still
be incredulous, and you might conclude
that your informant was gong dart.
Suppose, again, that you were told
that in addition to the four million dol"
lars paid out annually in wages. that
over two million dollars more are PAID
annually for supplies in Utah, or Sl7Q,-
600 per month. would you continue TO
be increduIous7
Suppose still further that, in addi-
tion to these expenditures alrendy cited,
this informant made the statement
that beginning this year there would
oc started plant by this corporation,
which will be finished next year. the
first appropriation orwhich is one and
a half million dollars. and which Will
employ 1900 men. would you still be
of the opinion that your informant
should be sent to an asylum
Salt Lake County Benefited.
And. still supposing, should this in
formant of yours tell you that this cor"
poration has within the last year and
a half expended, in addition to all the
above, one and a half million dollars
more in Salt Lake county. outside OF
Snlt Lake City, to aid in the carrying
on uf It's great business. would you edge
AWAY from this informant, believing
lha; he was wild2
If Ibis informant of yours, after
'cilng YOU all this. should continue and
say that an allied corporation of the !
m" 10 which he has been referring. /
in; which in reality is the same one, |
could this wear conclude the expendi- /
.pre Of fttv-five millions Of dollars in |
urdcr that il might have steel high
wav 10 carry its traffic from Salt Lake |
10 the Pacific coast. and that in the |
construction Of this great highway salt
lake became thc central point for tins
.,rcat corporation. would YOU pick up !
np,thine within reach to brain your IN
s'oynaut. confident that he was not only |
slid but more than wlld'
What Rio Grande Does.
Bu; all this is true and more, and !
this is what the Denver & Rio Grande /
rairoad is doing for Utah and for Salt
Lake. IN addition to all this, 1t is !
spending this year large sum in bet
terments for the road in the state.
In statement printed IN The Trlb- |
unc Thursday morning there was some |
interesting data pertaining to the great |
railway systems which center Ill Salt |
Lake. Those figures showed the re- !
ceipts from all sources, as also the ex- |
penses and the net earnings for the |
month of March and also for nine |
months of the fiscal year ended March |
81. In the items of expense that of |
taxes was not included
The Denver G. Rio Grande railroad |
is very heavy taxpayer in Utah. The |
valuation Of all property In the state |
for the purposes Of taxation is, in |
round numbers. about $165, 100000. One
sixteenth of the entire amount paid in
taxes in the State is paid by the Den
yer G. Rio Grande Railroad company, |
or S325.000 per annum. This amount |
is in addition 70 the other eXpendi. |
lures cited This year the Denver G. !
Rio Grande Railroad company is doing |
This for Utah is expending the follow
ing
Wages paid employees. ,,....... So, $50. 900 ,
In new terminals ..........,.. 100000 !
Petterments, Salt Lake county. 100000 |
Total .--..... s5.ss5. 900 |
New Shops to Be Built.
Work on the new shops to be used
bv the Denver & Rio Grande and the
Western Pacific will begin this year
ana VIII De cOHlplcIeu next year. foT
these shops one million and "A half dol |
lars has been appropriated, but when
the plant is finally completed the
amount will largely exceed this and en-
rloyment Will be given to 1900 men |
In other words. for ever, mile of track
of the Denver 6 Rio Grande railroad
in Utah there will be expended during
This year $4,000. or as much money as
the gross revenue received in the state
by the company will be
All this, Of course. is to provide for
the increased business when the West
crn Pacific is placed in commission,
which will be about November /, when
the volume Of freight traffic will be
largely increased
Movement Of Freight.
AS to shipments Of freight from the
Atlantic TO the Pacific coast. about
80 per cent now goes around the Horn
This includes the heavier stuff like fur
piture, pianos, iron and steel products,
Of the other 50 per cent there is
contest between the great railway sys-
TENS uf the county and xyhon fho