Show CUTS BIG SALT DEPOSIT Western Pacific Construction Work WorkS S Making Good Progress The construction gang gan at work on the new roadbed or of the Pacific on the tho west side Ride of the Utah desert not far from the Nevada state line have tereci an enormous deposit of salt fifteen miles long and eight miles wide The salt Is said to lend itself readily to refinement and to be of goo commercial value Work n t the e road i p saUs although in places almost in insurmountable insurmountable surmountable difficulties are being met with This is particularly true of the California end of the thc line Between Nibs and Altamont Cw Cal no less than three tunnels are being cut aggregating a length of feet Between Oroville and the state line Une no less than tun tunnels tunnels nels are being bored the total length of which is 30 m feet One stretch of sev ent miles of the road will cost dOO a mile mila to build |