The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-07-14

Within the past two weeks three
hundred tons of steel has been used
in the construction work on the new
Hartman freight depot Such Is the
progress that is now being mnde on
the structure.
According TO Engineer A. @. Camp
bell, the quarter of a million dollars
worth OF improvement work started
this spring will be completed by the
first OF November, as there is now
plenty of material on hand together
with sufficient force of labor
Just now the main force OF men
lis at work on the freight depot and
the concrete work on this building la
practically completed. The steel
girderS are In place and all that is
lacking to complete the exterior part
OF the building is the roof and sheet
ed steel sides. The roof Will DC OF
corrugated steel and the work OF
placing it will start next week. The
laying OF this roof will not take many
days The work of the side steel
which Includes the hanging of the
LIT doors, VIII be more OF q task
The freight office. which will be
situated at the southern end of the
building. Will be of steel and brick
and the brick work Is TO start with
In few DAYS, the steel structural
work being already completed Both
office and freight department will be
absolutely fire proof, no combustlble
material entering into their construc.
ton. The buildings Will be we'll light.
cd with incandescent lights and the
wiring probably Will be started to.
morrow.
Engineer Campbell, undor whose
supervision the work is being done,
has Just returned from little bust
ness trip out OF the city. He stated
this morning that the work is prog
ressing satisfactorily.
Commenting upon what the Har-
rlman system has been doing in Og-
den in the last few years, Mr.. Camp
bell said that, when the improvements
now under way arc completed. il viii
mean that within the last three years
and half the system has expended
eight hundred thoussnd dollars in
this city
Il now have a payroll OF 5000
per month, he said, made up of men
who are engaged In the Improvement
work. When il is finished there will
not be better equipped terminal
point OH the whole Hartman system.
BY the Improvements made and al
ready in effect, the road has cheap-
oned the cost OF handling freight In
the local yards by $4,000 per month
This does not mean that we are en-
ploying smaller force of men in the
freight departments, but that com
paratiyely the same force OF men arc
handling so much more freight than
formerly that the difference in cost
is made up.
i can hardly estimate what the
saving to the railroad Will be when all
the improvements are completed, but.
OF course, IT will be very large.
The railroad is not the only bus.
mess that will be directly benefited
by the new freight house. All the
shippers or any of the local business
men who receive good from the de.
pot will be directly benefited. For
instance, we are paving near Wall
avenue With heavy stone blocks and
concrete so that draymen In haul.
Ing goods away can carry nearly
Twice as much In weight as formerly.
This ought TO mean a considerable
saving to the persons who have
goods hauled from The depot. This
consideration Will be especially ap-
pTeciated by those who have hauling
TO do In the wet seasons OF the year"
Speaking of the freight depot. the
engineer stated that $4,000 square feet
OF concrete has been put in the floor
OF this building. There are two con
crete mixers working continuously.
using about seventy-five barrels of
cement daily.
A small "sib" crane. to De installed
IL the north end Of the freight house.
has Just arrived and Will soon be put
into place.
The transfer platforms are now
nearing completion, the steel sup
ports for the umbrella roofs hayInS
been finished With these. the de.
depot VIII have facilities for handling
one hundred and twenty-five cars.
II is most likely that the freight
depot VIII be completed before the
track coverings at the pass
enger depot are built.