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Show TRACK CLEARED FOR WESTERN EXCURSION Salt Lake, Jan. 25. With the Western West-ern Pacific opened yesterday to freight traffic and orders Issued for passenger trains Nos. 1 and 2 to op-orate op-orate through to the west today the slides in Feather River canvon 'having 'hav-ing been cleared away, and with trains on the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, Pa-cific, Oregon Short Line and Salt Lake Route practically on time, the trouble caused by the recent storm between Salt Lake and tho coast was cleared up to a large extent yesterday. yester-day. Word was received yesterday morning morn-ing at the local freight and passenger passen-ger offices of the Denver & Rio Grande that all obstructions had been removed from feather River canyon and that freight including livestock and perishable freight would be admitted. ad-mitted. It was also stated that passenger pas-senger service would be resumed today. to-day. A trainload of soldiers from Jefferson Barracks, Mo., which ar-rtved ar-rtved last night on the Denver & Rio "UU.U.., .j j -,..,K. , .. yn Grande will be transferred to the Western Pacific. Announcement was made yesterday afternoon by J. H. Manderfleld, assistant as-sistant general freight and passenger agent of the Salt Luke Route, that three trains leaving Salt Lake Saturday, Satur-day, forming the special excursion from Washington, Idaho and Wyoming, Wyom-ing, will leave for the coast on time promptly nt 11, 11:30 and 12 o'clock 'noon. Many reservations were received re-ceived yesterday from northwestern points where it is expected the excursion ex-cursion will draw heavily. It is thought that at least 1000 persons will take the trip. Of this number about one-fourth will be from Salt Lake. |