Show IN HAllWAY CICLES Al Ready For Work On Wyoming Cutoffs t BIG SAVING IN MILEAGE r NW MNVILL BE READY FOR 4 USE DEC 1 + Great Norher Explas Its Cure and t War Will 8e Galled Off Prediction of McNicholPe sylvaia Directors ElectedFee ig Th Tit Discussion t Speda Cortondencc1 Laramie Wyo March 27That the Union Pacific company intend to con stuct scveral cutoff west of Laramie this spring there ca now be no doubt notwithstanding the deIa of President Bpr however he contracts have helm let to Ies Upatrck Broc Cal lns and theIr agent are now here making the preiminar arangrnent for commencing aork shortly alter the 1st of April The first cutoff begins wet of the bridge over the Laale rLver live mBes from here whe e the railroad oNes the river bottom and begins to climb the divide which separates the valley of the Big Laramie from that oC the Little Laramie I is Dn these uplands up-lands that the heavy grades and sharp Curves arc ecounter which not only are reduced but he line distance by the old route is saIghtened and El0t cue The old lne eighteen and four tenths mUeF long whereas the nEW line will be only fifteen and three tenths miles Oh this cutoff not only wi distance be saved but in curvature and rise and fall there is a great saving Over 250 feet rise and fall and 254 degrees of curvature cur-vature are avoIded The nw grade is erly a water grade and fellows the LaramIe river almost all ff he way crossing a number oJ vauahl ranches the owners of which will be idemnlfed by the Union Pacific The second cutoff begins at a point west of Lookout and nearly frty miles from Laramie The cutoff leaves the old line at n place known as the horseshoe cUre and goes In t north and northetcly direction through n lag valley on the plaIns A heavy and long rock cut is encountered north of Lookout 1his cut Is forty feet deep and lOIO feet long and is a very ex pensive piece of work The cutoff comes back to the main line a Medicine Medi-cine Bow station The distnc over thIs route is twentythre and nine tenths mie while over the old line i I is thirtyfve and ninetents miles a sWing of twelve miles This line cut I out Wilcox hill which is a very llPvy grade The cost of these two lines is roughly estimated at l5UOOOO and calls I for the remmml of upwards f OOOvO cubic yards of dirt and rock I The grading contracts cal for the I completion of the work by oct 33 and i the work of laying the rails and bal i lasting the roadbed will follow as rapidly rap-idly as poslble so that the nev line 1 wi he in ue for traffic hy Dec next I In addition to these two cuthfts there are era more in contemplation The j frt of these is from Alien Junction six miles wet of Medicine Bow through the mining town of Hanna to Plrcy a I distance of about tirbfve mHC and I avoiding the heavy grades 01 Simpsn NIl as wen as saving several miles Instance In-stance This cutoff will leave Carbon Car-bon of the man line but it i probably prob-ably be two yes before the new line is bunt I tal en It comE from Denver h 6 ig 1 flIficntly added |