| Show EXTENSION NEARLY COMPLETED I Two Weeks More Will See the Mattie I Mat-tie No 4 Connected fly Railroad General Manager Jacobs of the Salt II I Lake and Mercur railroad is of the opinion that he will have the road ex j I tended around to the Mattie No 1 I 1 within two weeks and this connection I will give that property rn outlet forts I II for-ts ores which are to be treated in the Mercur mill A heavy force of workmen work-men is engaged in constructing the I road and the progress being made is yery satisfactory I I I It has also been decided by the management man-agement of the road to commence upon ithe extension of the main line around I So the town of Mercur a distance of a quarter of a mile and the work has I already commenced The first section to be completed will be a switch back I for use in holding cars I Some idea of the manner in which the I business of the Camp Floyd district is increasing may be formed from the I statement made by Manager Jacobs as follows During September the road handled 5200000 pounds of freight in addition to the ore traffic and other Mercur company shipments and thus far in October this record is broken by some 130000 pounds 1 |
