Show WESTERN PACIFIC FORGING AHEAD Tracks Are Now at Edge of Desert But Miles Left to Be Covered MAY BRANCH TO GOLD HILL TRAFFIC AGREEMENT WITH NE NEVADA NEVADA NEVADA VADA NORTHERN MADE While little has been heard of the West Western Western Western ern progress in its from Salt Lake across the desert into Ne Nevada Nevada Nevada vada for some time work has been going ahead as rapidly as the shortage of labor and materials has permitted The line Une is i now eight seven miles out of ot Salt Lake and a good showing is made by the end of each days work Carloads of ties and rails and other materials are passing through Salt Lake daily dally and being rushed to the th present end of the Salt Lake end of the new road Despite the fact that the Gould inter interests Interest Interests ests est own large timber tracts in California and a big sawmill plant at Boca on the line of the Southern Pacific the new road Is considerable difficulty in obtaining enough ties to keep up with its outfit with a capacity of ot one mile per day Ties are being brought from Oregon as rapidly as they can be pur purchased purchased purchased chased The car shortage is also arso an obstacle to rapid line building The cars C built in the local shops of the Rio Grande for the Western Vestern Pacific as well wen as Rio Grande earn cars are being sent into Oregon and out 19 to the sawmill at Boca to hurry the con consignments consignments consignments needed at the end of the West Western Western ern em Pacific on oh its Salt Lake division While little news is being brought In from the camps information is volunteered which shows that the work worle is being pushed against all odds The great American desert where it will be crossed by b r the Western Pacific is ninety miles wide and It is estimated that a month or more will be consumed In lay la ing this amount of track Word Yard comes from Nevada and California that work in these states is also going ahead as rap idly as existing t obstacles will permit It is rumored that the Western Pacific was going to build a branch line to the Gold Hill district in Utah and across the desert esert Prop are arc owned there by bJ the Western Vestern Utah Copper company a cor corporation corporation corporation whose members comprise F Au Augustus Augustus gustus ustus Heinze and Duncan MacVichie of ot Salt Lake general manager of the com company company company pany This branch can be built from the 13 post to the mines mentioned twentysix sIX miles to the south Traffic Agreement Reported The rhe Western estern Pacific is said to have made traffic arrangements with the Ne Nevada Nevada Nevada vada Northern the Ely road The West Western Western ern em Pacific crosses the tracks of the Ne Nevada N Nevada vada Northern at a point about twenty miles nor th of Ely and Western Vest ern Pacific cars and those of ot the Nevada Northern can be operated over oyer both lines with no trouble Shops Making Cars The Rio Grande shops In this city have been turning out equipment for West Western Western ern em Pacific for some time This comprises freight fr ight cars and such rolling stock as is isnow isnow isnow now needed in the transportation of sup plies and materials from Salt Lake to the end of this division With miles of or track laid on this end there are but iJ miles of ground yet et to be covered by the main line Une A stretch not yet ye er contracted for extends f om Death to a point south of f Elko ElIco In Nevada The rhe present shortage of labor laborers ers em will not last many weeks more if the hopes of the Western Pacific Is fulfilled The rhe company believes many men will be looking for work when the harvest season is at an end for then the thousands now employed ed on farms will be ready to ac accept accept accept employment for the rest of the win ter and this will be offered to them by b western railroads |