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Show ( ut !;:!(- ;!!:;: -:ai!.. -diorl i iip' ailiki-.- AnoPler ! - i,:;,"vl il! I Ti i'.aa'O. iSall Lai-ie Tri'oune.j "While in Chicsao Viee-i a. .-.ider.l 'k'nertdt of th" Ore-on Slieai. fame made an importae: eontra.et, ll was "or lA.liOO lams id' seventy-pound s!ee! I'ails to 1 ie ilel tve-red earlv j tki'toker Ay :he Illinois Si.ee! company. In oseal; ir.L;' of the contract yesto"dsy Air. laanei'oft slated LP, ut the rails would lie iaid on the -ve.-e end of nie main line, ivhieh will practleallv eomple'e' the '.ayinjr cA heavy rails on the entire line from Grana'ci' to blunt inirtoii. This order makes a total of oO.OOO ions of heavy steel purchased by the xunaaany since March. lSliT. rcproseiii-'re' rcproseiii-'re' !d" miles. Thewholeof the sydem Tom Salt, Lake .0 Unite and from GratiU'er to Hunt,in;;toii will, when the rails of this last- order are laid, be equipped wii h sixty, seventy and seventy-five-pound rail-, placi'ii';' the road in perfect physical condTiou Jo addition to thin, the company has on hand about odd) miles of lifty-two-poiind steel rails piled ulonjf the I'oad, which was replneeu b; the new steel. This amount- is enough to lay track from Milford to Manvek including- all switches, spurs and s'dot racks, and a branch to Pioohe and one to S't. George, should such a road be built. Manvek it will be remembered, is tie northern terminus of the California Easl.ern, which connects at Blake wiih the Santa Pe direct to Los Angeles. |