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Show Utah and Northern Extension. The Utah and Northern railroad! was complcttd ss far as a point four miles beyond Eagle Rock last Saturday Satur-day night. This makes the entire length ol the road 217 milea. Of this, twenty -six milea have been laid aince the 2l5th of February last, and the road is now about four miles from the point where it will crosa the Snake river. For thia last named point the road baa been vigorously pushed since the recommencement of work this spring, with a view to its early completion com-pletion in order that the iron bridge, now being built east, could ba! shipped over the road and laid across Snake river. By the 5ih of this month the track will have been laid as far as the crossing at Snake river. The work of construction may be temporarily suspended when thiB point has been reached or it may cob tinue, the matter etill being undecided. Be that as it may, it has been pushed far enough to insure the carriage of freight to Montana, while tbo opening open-ing of the Salmon river and Snake river mining fields will greatly increase in-crease the work of the road. The freight ia already increasing rapidly, while an exceedingly heavy passenger traffic is now going on. As yet neither freight nor passengers have been carried beyond Blackfoot and will not bo until the road ib completed to Snake river. During tbe present week Superintendent Superin-tendent George W. Thatcher, who was yesterday in town, expects to go to the Snake river crossing, which will be the future terminus of the road, so far as is at present known, -to locate the Bite of new warehouses, those at Black foot, the present terminus, to be moved to the former place. The road, it is believed, is already doing a paying business and . that business will certainly increase materially during the incoming summer. |