Show T TUNNEL IS BARRIGAB B t Y Clark Force Has Raised One in Big Cut 53s I AT THIS SIDE OF PORTAL I 1 Cedar Doughs and Timbers Covered With Earth and Rock Forms the I I at Obstruction Across the Cut They 1 it Have Two Tunnels the Short Line q Four Outlook Is UncertainNo i I Moro Men Needed Burlington Annual An-nual Meeting Held but No Announcements An-nouncements Railroad Notes i i The Clark forces In the blgt cut this t elde of tunnel No lln Nevada arc evidently V evi-dently preparing to make a strong resistance 1 re-sistance when the Oregon Short Line tracklayers arrive at that point The Clark force has been piling cedar boughs the cut and over them laying i rock and earth scraped down from the side banks Quite a formidable barricade I barri-cade has thus been thrown up behind I 1 which the force Is Intrenched The Short Line however has secured tunnels No 1 No 3 No 5 and No G In while the Clark force ha gotten No t1I 2and No ibut Juet what action will bo taken on Qlther Bide us regards a fight at the tunnel remains a mystery k VicePresident Bancroft of the Short I Line who Is also president of the Utah I Nevada California said yesterday Ire I-re are going right along building a railroad and the opposition lids not 1 I so far prevented us from carrying on the work The track would have been I uld for several I miles further had It not been for theblS bridge a When asked what action the company com-pany would take when Its employees I reached the Clark barricade Mr Ban croft smiled and said That Is another I bridge and we will wLh until we get I 1 there before we talk of crossing IL P B McICcon the forwarding agent I ot the south end of tho line came up yesterday on private business matters lhr Ic ICOn has been quite active In tho w6rk of construction and has anl proved of great assistance to the Short I Line owing to his knowledge of the country and people and the lurge number t num-ber of men and teams at his command Sheriff Virgil Kelly of the Clark force I j nt the tunnel also came In yesterday F and after a conference with Attorney I C O WJilttemore he returned to Uvadn i last night Mr YJ1lt more said last evening i that his men were notl looking for trouble and would not start any but j that the United States Land office had i given the Utah California right of way over the grade In J question and i while that decision was goodthe company com-pany proposed to hold tho right I otiway ii On the door of Mr Whlttcmores jZ oftlce is a sign which says that no more men are wanted by the San Pedro Los Angeles Salt Lake There are now at the front plenty of men to do all the cTi work necessary says Mr Whltlemoie i and no more will be sent down |