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The long talked of feanta Fe improvements are about to be realized. The vice president of the company has authorized the appropriation for the grading and channel excavation at, the site offered by the citizens of Gallup for the improvements;; Within few weeks at the most, abouta month from now, the-fromdirt wibbegin to fly and the work of changing the course' of theto^^c^pleledj hy,;the!?jflrst; of. the’’ J.Ptierco will be under-way.: .George Hattis, .right of way agent of Coast lines was in - this city this week and has confirmed the report that] the expenditures necessary for the grading at the site' for '^ -shopsrand engjne house have' been authorized. The i grading is to be started in time i'-togbe.-oyear allowmg starfced'on'the-'actual construction of the big buildings early in 191fi. - , y • ;mrThe railway Engineering.’’ de-partmenf estimates that .the cost of .the improvenjents to go into the Galhip division ■ f acilRes will not be lees than, a half million dollars.- The. grading alone will cost $90jQ0G, 'the. greaf.er part of which is for,.^labor and will he paid here. ' ■ y*-am buildings andtv Among-, the division pointJfaeiHties for Gdb hip will be a new ‘ 25 stall round house, a machine shop, a car repairing shop, .Store house,- a new modem depot and an eating house. Besides these structures the company will relay- many of the, tracks and change the course of- the Puerto. The latter piece of work being a job of some size m the rrver will be tovoed frog t\ point near the- Cotton store andihe ehannbl changed,. and a retaining wall will be put In along the_ portion , where the , natural channal is diverted \ The location of the ney depot and the new jjHarvey. House has ■npt been definitely decided as, several sites are under consideration. Rumor has rt that the: new depot will be jueteastof t-hb ■Cotton store and antrther ;‘reporfc is that the- depot will. remain where it is, the-old»w’ooden struct:, lire to give way to a fine modern station buildmg. -Gallup is extremely ’ fortunate in Securing these pretentious rail-road-improvement:-; to be. made by the Santa Fe. The public spirit shown by the’Gallup citizens who interested themselves .in , donatihg,'-the yrte .-ngcess^ry.«tor the, improvements, ho doubt .saved the -shops for Gallup for had not this site been donated there would have been no shops built in this city and the division point would have gone eisewhere, a great loss to Gallup. 'The' trodesireability of the only site available at Gallup made, it extremely doubtful, -'whether or hot the new shops would be built.-here, but now that the railway ^pmpany has decided, to take the “to oerdd, 'the' big'Shopswill' soon be* fact.,; ? ■ ,. ’ •The erection of these grEat shops, the round house and store house in company with the building, of a fine depot and Harvey house will be the most important industrial event that has happened-in Gallup, since the, first locomotive whistle was heard re-; sending from the sandstone hills that suriround the town. - •Elbpimai-11
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The Gallup Herald
Gallup, New Mexico, US
Sat, Oct 09, 1915
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