Show IMPROVE SOUTH ROUTE Oregon Short Line Work in 1 Utah County I 1 MAY HAVE SIGNIFICANCE The Line from Salt Lake to Neplii is Being Put in Best Possible Physical Phy-sical Condition Sidings Lengthened 5 Length-ened Track Raised Weeds Removed I Re-moved and Much Ballasting Being DoneLooks Like Preparations Extension on Toward Los Angeles I Railroad Notes 1t 1 t The spirit of improvement extended ex-tended to the Utah division of the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line south of Salt Lake as far as Nophl The suction gangs have all been Increased this summer and a great amount or work is f being done at different points along tho line The work Includes ballasting widening banks lengthening sidings and raising track while some gangs arc greatly i improving the right of way by clearing c weeds and other growth A large number num-ber oC new tioa and rails arc being ri put In and all together tho line Is being placed in line l condition To a casual observer on the rear platform of a train on this district the great amount of work being done leads to a suspicion that the road is i being placed in condition for some move of more importance than the local conditions condi-tions might warrant As has been told time and again the Los Angeles line Is surely to be built and there arcs three chances out of five that the present line to Milford will become a link in the route and would be Instantaneously transformed into one of the busiest S lines in the West It may be that the Oregon Short Line is paving the way for thiN move by great attention to the physical condition of the line already in operation GO as to be ready for the more important move of extension southwest It IP I certain that the improvements im-provements being made are of the most substantial and firstclass order and the track Is now so smooth that fast time can be made with ease and comfort I com-fort I fortAt the Point Mountain quite an improvement im-provement is found In the track which 1 has been moV id thirty feet nearer the gravel bank and away from the edge of tho hill The gravel Is I being constantly I con-stantly taken out and in time the track ban be moved still further toward the I inner bank The curved track enterIng enter-Ing several of the settlements has been raised and ballasted and at Lehl Junction Junc-tion n 2000foot siding is being constructed con-structed Adjacent to mile post 70 the I weeds have always been troublesome as the bottom of the Utah valley Is reached at that point Just as soon as possible the saltspraying train will be C sent back and forth over this stretch and the result will be the making of 3 one oC tho prettiest pieces of track in I the stato Sooner or later tho whole line between here and Provo at least I will be ballasted up to the standard of the Ogden line |