Show WELL BALLASTED ROADS ROAD-S mple of Improvements on the Short Line WHOLE SYSTEM TO BE SAME I I I Line from Salt Lake to Ogden Now Complete ind it Makes a Perfect Track and Headway Ballast Laid on Earth Grade with Edges Carefully Care-fully Banked Signal Posts Set in Whitewashed Stonqs Pretty Stations Sta-tions and JTJower Gardens Surveyors Survey-ors in Northern California S I The Oregon Short Line has undertaken underta-ken an Immense amount of work In Its Improvements to the roadbed and general I gen-eral maintenance l of way betterments I The whole system Is being gradually I built un and In three or four yearo the company will have expended a great sum but it will have the satisfaction I of knowing that time roadway is excelled ex-celled by none In the West and this will Insuro speed and safety A sam I ple or the standard gravelballasted track la soon between here and Ogden Og-den and In permanent structures roadway truck und all 1 appurtenances 1 tho line Is not only very attractive but as solid and smooth afc can be To begin the grade for the entire thirtyseVcn miles hns been widened with earth This was unloaded on the sides by scraper and tho section men banked it to standard at tho sumo time raising or lowering the track where I needful I Then came tho ballasting Time Rodger curs were used to haul gravel from Point I mountain The material I Was unloaded In the center of the track and after filling In the tics the ballast was ruir to both sides of thQ track and banked up The difference fn color be lyceen the earth grade and the gravel throws Into great prominence the edges of the ballast line making an attrac tive eiTqct at the same time perfecting the physical condition This Is seen all the way to Ogden Outside the grade the weeds and wild lowers grow In profusion so the trip over the line Is pleasing to the eye the ride is over a smpoth track and there Is no dust to speak of Nor have the Improvements stopped there All the stations are well built pretty and with plent of flowers and Whitewashed stone borders On the line each signal post Is imbedded In a pile of whitewashed stones and this too adds to the general neatness of the road This lf I > the section where tho woods grow so luxuriantly but nono are visible visi-ble on the grade The salt water spray has jut been started and It Is too early yet to say whether It will be so successful as to cause Its adoption The weeds however arc not In sight The ballasting Is going on all over the system where the line Is permanent I perma-nent and us soon as the cutoffs and other line changes are made those stretches of track will also be ballasted ballast-ed If made as thorough ag the lino from here to Ogden the system will be In the beat shape of any road In tho trest WHAT CUTOFF SAVES Hills Both Ways on Southern Pacific Pa-cific Line to Lucin The Tribune has secured a profile of the Southern Pacific which shows at a glance what wonderful saving In grades will be made by building the cutoff across the Gieul Salt hike The elevations at the Important stations have already been given but a description descrip-tion of the present line brings out In detail the heavy grades encountered by trains both cast and westbound Leaving Lucin going toward Ogden there is down grade to Bovine From Bovine It rises to Terrace drops from Tenace to Matlln and u rise and fall between Mutlln amid Kclton It 1 Is level fiom Kolton to Luke but thru comes the Promontory hill with fall into Ogden Og-den Going wctfl from Ogden the upgrades encountered arc the Promontory hill beyond Kolton Terrace hill and grade from Bovine to Lucin As has already been sliown thieve are no grades worth mentioning on the surveyed sur-veyed ionic tho Ink cutoff and only a difference of 100 feat In the elevations eleva-tions of Ogdcn and Lucin The lake trestles course would bu level The saving In time of two hours for passenger trains between the two points would be as nothing compared with what can be saved In the operation opera-tion of freight trains I I |