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Show U. P. TO DOUBLE TRACK LINE FROM ' HERE TO GRANGER W. H. Wattis, president of tho Utah-Construction Utah-Construction company, announced today to-day that he had been Invited to bid for the construction of double track for tho Union Pacific railroad between Evanston, Wyo, and Wasatch, Utah, a distnnqe of approximately 35 miles. Rumors at the Union depot this morning were thnt the entire section of tho mountain division of the Union! Pacific railroad would be double-tracked double-tracked in tho near future. At present1 double trackage extends from Ofrianj to Gateway in Wober canyon, and from! Granger, Wyo.. to Omaha, Neb An1 interval of approximately 175 miles exists in which a single track Is now used. I Mr. Wattis stated today that while he had received no word as to the full i extent of the double trackage, the part J on which he was asked to submit bids beiug the only portion in the invitation, invita-tion, he intimated that the remainder of the work will probably be allotted to other contractors for bids. The stretch which will be double tracked embraces several separate and distinct phases of geological construction, each of which will call for different types of construction. It Is stated. The construction of the voad will mean considerable to Ogden, railroad 'men say. as this city ofrers the near-I near-I eat point as a base of supplies. Whilo ! machinery, rails and other construction construc-tion equipment will come from the least. Utah Industries, especially food manufacturers, will doubtless profit from tho work. It was today rumored in railroad circles cir-cles that Evanston will be chosen as the headquarters for construction gangs which will be put to work on tho new project. This work of double tracking represents repre-sents tho greatest improvement work to be carried on by linos running Into Ogden since before the war. |