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Show MSLL50N DOLLARS FOR THE OJT-OST That Amount Will Be Expended in Making the Great Highway Storm Proof First Trains Cross the Lake and Reach Ogden at an Early Hour This Morning. clusivcly lhat the Southern Pacific company must maintain Its old line around the north end of the lake to be used In caica of emergency. With this end In view, orders have heen Issued for the Improvlu.s and tho rebuilding re-building of that line wherever necessary. neces-sary. This work, which will practically prac-tically mean 'the placing of the old Hue back to where it was before the cut-off was built, will begin Immediately. Immed-iately. While the work of widening and raising the "fill'' on the cut-off Is being be-ing vigorously prosecuted, the company com-pany will rush tho building of the double-track trestle for a mile, beginning begin-ning at the west end of the trestle. This work, which will cost alout .$ lfiftiOu, will glvo the company double track for more than six miles on the west side of the cut-off and will greatly great-ly facilitate the handling of trains across the cut-off. With work already don Jiud Uiat outlined on the Oi;dcn-Lucln rut-off, that railroad officials are unanimous In their opinions that CtaX. Salt Lake can and will be fully conquered by man within a comparatively short time and that the cut-off will still retain Ha title as the greatest piece of railroad engineering the world has ever seen. company to do to be on the safe sld t in keeping traffic open on the cutoff. Contrary to the expectations of engineers, en-gineers, the Great Salt Lake during the past five years has raised about .-lx feet, Instead of receding. During the month of March the lake exceeded exceed-ed all fcrmer records In that It raised seven Inches. Several reasons are given for the rise. One is that the creation of the forest reserves by th' government In the territory adjoining the source of the many waters that flow into the lake, has done much to Increase the water singly of the Great Salt Lake. The preservation of tiie forests on the watersheds, it has been found. Increases the water supply. The higher the lake rises, the more destructive ihe storm?. A fiorni upon the lake Is far more drrtructlve in its nature than one t sea on account of tho density of the water. The storms have also proved con- After a three-day suspension, traffic traf-fic was resinned this morn:ng over the Ogden Lucln cutoff by the Southern South-ern Pacific coniMiny. X.10 flrsl train across was No. 1"., which arrived at 7.10 a. m., and the s-cond train was No. 10, which arrived at S: 10 a. in. lioth trains were about an hour late. All westbound trains lelt Ogden today on time. The damage from Saturday night's storm will reach about $75,oiifj, which exceeds the damage of tho storm of a week ago by about $20,000. Almost ten thousand cars of rock and ballast from the lakeside quarries will be iird before the track will be put In Its normal condition The average cost of a car of ballast Is alioui $r, which does not Include the cost of iiaullng. More than five hundred men are atwork on the cutoff repairing repair-ing the damage. That the Southern Pacific company will double track the cutoff from the east end of the trestle on the west imn of the lake to Wlthee on the asi arm. the same as between Ranibo ard Lakeside, In order to surrcssfully overcome the damage to the lln caused by the terrific wind .tnrins that prevail upon the Great Salt Iike, i.ow seems to bo inevitable. .,,t only will the line have to be double-tracked double-tracked on Lie ' fills" but the original krsde will have to be established. During the two wind storms, within tin- sast ten days. It has been found lhat the double-tracked 'fill" between Knmbo and Lakeside bus withstood those storms and the compnnv has been able to keep traftic open "there. If the storm came from ihe south and the waves became too high, the n..th tr.ick was usel and If th- storm came from the north the 50.111 h track wa; used. It has also l.een found that with the wide ami hiCh -nir the ferce of the waves are broken nnd the receding of ihe waveR has lys effect than where the fills are oi. ly r Ingle. While the double-trucking of the cutoff on the fills as well as prts of the trestle, would cost approximately a million dollars and would take abo-iC five hundred men a year. It is stated by experienced i-nxliu-ers. as well i(.4 rr-llroiid nu-n who are fully conversu-it villi the situation upon the lake that lhlo will be the only thing lor the |