Show Hallways in the South A correspondent of the Manti Sentinel writes Of course you have heard of the extension of the Rio Grande Western railway rail-way from Thistle but you have no idea of the change that has been made at the initial init-ial point The first improvement you notice is the splendid depot building worthy of a town of 2000 people Next you find that almos the entire distance from the mountain on the west to the river has been graded and leveled ready for several tracks and more improvements A large hotel is to be built where the old brewery stood This is the point from which the supplies are distributed by the contractors H L Reynolds Co to the workingmen and here is to be found Mr Reynolds presiding over every interest of the forward movement From Thistle to the asphaltum mills the redwood ties and broad and narrow gauge tracks appear quite cosmopolitan but from there on the roadbed is smoothly graded and solid looking though some of the ties are old ones Just above the asphaltum works the wagon road has been forced to the side hill where a dugway has been made of not less than a half a mile in length From the dugway the railroad takes the east side of the valley till the Hicks farm is reached when it takes the middle of the valley rendering almost valueless some of the land At the Simons ranch ten miles above Thistle however the grade hugs the vest hills and so continues until it reaches me divide when the rest of the valley is raversed the east The construction train runs about ten niles above Thistle now and forty men arc expected to lay about a mile of track iaily from there on Owing however to tome delays on the part of the railway company the grading to Fairview will not be done till about the middle of November About tnree hundred yards of grading just north of the divide appears to be all the roadbed up to that point but what is nearly ready for the ties but from the divide di-vide on little has been done The heaviest fill on the road appears to be the one about a half mile north of the divide where the crade will measure to the level not less than forty feet This fill i is i about 350 feet length and 125 feet through c at the bottom But there is a heavy cut at the divide measuring not less than twenty i feet deep and wide enough for two tracks iv |