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Show are being made on two other routes ' with a view to ascertaining If a satisfactory sat-isfactory alternative is available. If it Is not found feasible to rebuild the line through the Meadow Valley wash on an absolutely safe basis, then It Is possible that one of the other lines being considered will be apodted and the road constructed on such route." More than 25.) salaried employes have been laid off In Utah alone since the disaster. The better informed among these men take a gloomy lew of the situation. The restoration of the thronph line, they believe, Is a matter of years rather than months SAN PEDRO ROAD ALHOSU WRECK Salt Lake City, Tan. 1$. Never in the history of transportation in the United States ha a preat railroad been stricken so sorely as was the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Iake by the mid-winter thaw. In a twinkling the desert-born torrenta lapped up a hundred miles of rail and embankments, severed the steel band between mountains nnd sea and made of a busy Rvcnn of commerce two disorganized branches whose ends are lost in tbe wilderness. Millions of dollars of Investment temporarily profitless and hundreds of capable railroad men without employment em-ployment are two results of the disaster. dis-aster. As itg extent Is better under- tood the day when earnings will be i restored and the men recalled, seems more and more remote. Said J. Rofs Clark, tho second vice-president, before be-fore starting to Los Angeles over the Southern Pacific today: "The weather conditions since lh wnsbtnit in th) Meadow VaJloy wash have fcren puob that a thorough examination ex-amination of the present line has not been possible but as soon as tho weatnr will permit, the matter will be goa over carefully by competent engineers to determine the exact extent ex-tent of the damage done and the feasibility feas-ibility of reconstructing ru- line , through tho canyon of the Meadow Valley wash In Its former position or elsewhere. "In the meantime recoonaleances |