Semi-weekly herald., 1910-01-17
BROAD GAueiNG HAS
ACTUALLY BEEN STARTED
Grand Junction News.

1
tracks on the Denver & Rio Grande
from Montrose to Salida has already
been started announced Vice Presi-
dent and General Manager Horace w
Clarke yesterday upon his arrival in
this city. He stated that the broader
ties had been laid for many miles and
that many gangs of section men are
at work laying more and more each
day. 1t was given out exclusively by
the News some time ago that the work
would begin soon and the fact that
Mr.. Clarke corrobonates the statement
| makes it certain now. The work will
be pushed rapidly and it is the hope
of the officials of the system that ii
can be completed next summer to ac
commodate the fall rush of business.
"Of course nothing definite can be
| said at the present time concerning
| how soon the great task will be com.
pleted," added Mr.. Clarke. but if ev.
erything goes well we will eventually
| have the entire system running in
| standard width" He went on to saw
| that 1t would be only few years
before all the narrow gauge In the
| United States would be standard he
cause of the immense amount of work
entailed by the transferring of freight
from standard to narrow cars.
| Mr.. Clarke, however, would not say
anything as to the proposed tunnel
ing of Marshall pass, except that il
might be necessary on account of the
change. The broad gauging of this
track will be big thing for the
Western slope. More business can be
handled and will be handled by the i'm
provement in conditions. This feature
has been dreamed of for years as one
OF the best things that could befall
the western part of Colorado. Now
the tedious waits at Montrose and
ing loads of freight will be forever
a thing of the past An improved
train service can be given tourists
who wish to view the wonders of the
1 anu VI VI SidlI pass
The wealthy traveller can sit back al
his ease in luxurious car and take
in the beauties of that part of the
Rocky mountains which have been liz
nored in the past on account of the
poor service which was afforded No
Pullman car can be secured to fit the
narrow gauge track and as a result
tourists have had to go from Montrose
to Salida in stuffy day coach, get off
at little eating houses for dining and
Put up with many more Inconvenience
that never occur in a standard broad
gauge travelling car and Pullman. II
IL thought that the standard gaugine
of the track will give to the public
a night service which has been hither-
to thing unknown over Marshal
pass.
The many changes which have been
made in the official roll of the road
have been because it was thought II
would be beneficial 10 the operating OF
the immense system" he said: "In
lew iuOulhS dlltT all IUt new
have become naturalized to their new
duties the Denver & Ro Grande rail.
road will be in shape for any criti.
cism that may come up. The separat
ing of the second and third divisions
of the road will prove a big step in
improving traffic handling. The new
superintendent at Gunnison now can
easily see to everything that may come
up in his territory and will be able to
give his undivided time to every phase
: of the work"
In the party here now are Mr. and
Mrs. Horace w. Clarke, Mr.. and Mrs
John E, Enrich and daughter, Miss
Alice Enrich, the former superintend.
ent of motive power and car depart
ments of the ID. & R. G., and Mr. o
: j. Ogg superintendent of the second
division with headquarters at Salida
The party is staying in the private
car "Ballyclare" which is considered
one of the finest in the country, be
ing fitted up with all the latest i'm.
provements and convenienees for the
; comfort of its occupants. They will
leave today for Salt Lake City where
the manager and superintendent OF
motive power will confer with the Salt
Lake officials. Mr.. Clarke and his
party have been over the entire sys.
TEN on an inspection tour and seem
generally satisfied with the conditions
as they are now, stating however that
in the futura hattar servion ,viI ha