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Show cedar city jrxenov.; I TAI1 A: PACIFIC l: EA( ii t:t j iin:i;i: viti:i'.1)av. j "Wednesday- Tribune. J Chief Engineer Joseph West of the I Utah & Pacitic is in the city. He re- j ceived a telegram from the front yesterday, yes-terday, which stated that the road was completed to the terminus which will be used for the next two months. It is exactly thirty-seven miles from Alil-ford Alil-ford and trains will run today. To avoid confusion, and at the same time make it more appropriate, this place will not be named Sulphur as at first intended. It is christened "Cedar City Junction," for here the branch to Iron county will be started, surveys for which will be begun very soon. It is thirty-five miles from Cedar and the same distance from Parowan. Mr. West has already surveyed the townsite and fifteen lots have already been sold. A hotel, stable and three saloons have arisen, besides many shanties and sheds. The company is putting up a neat rustic station-house, engiue-shed and tank. All the buildings build-ings are being built much more elaborate elabo-rate than would be required for a two months terminal station, which proves that the place will have a permanency and that the branch to Cedar will be built from that point. Xo attempt: will be made to change the terminus this winter, but work on construction will be pushed on with no decrease in the force. Desert Springs will be reached by the time spring opens, and that point will be the next terminus and a permanent station will be erected there, as that is the station for St. George, fifty-live miles distant from Desert. ' Mr. West would not talk of the Los Angeles terminal or of the line beyond the State line; He said that all work now being done is confined to Utah, and what is to come in the future only the head officials of the company could statei |