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Show II 1 SHORT LINE WORK Ijj'jj- IS GOING AHEAD I J : j I ' j j Much Preparatory Work Already I J Done in North Salt Lake Good I Forco Employed. I ' i if OOU progress hntl hcen made in I 'j 1 j! iJ Iff the Improvements that the Ore- I i iv M. son Short Line has been making I I j , in North Salt Lake up to the I r , . time when the storms came to hinder I Ml the work. In the last two weeks bc- I 1 1 I tween StHH) and 0000 square yarda of. the I ! T marsh on the caet side of the existing T)( f , thick had been filled in. F. J. Logan, v'' the engineer' In chargo of the work, has Q t i had as many as seventy-five men at I ' ' work, and the arrival of - the new I ', "spreader," which wis received last rk" ill t week, accelerated the procccdlncs con- 'I 'j siderably. Jt was not quite whf.t was I ,)'. expected, however, and come hnprove- Ji'l ments will have to be made on It be- , fore it will do the work properly. This it appliance does away with a lot of shov- ' . ellnff that has had to bo done by inan- ' t , I 1 al labor. ! In the travel pit the ctemi chovel l ' has been loadinc two. trains daily, but ,' for the time beinsr. One bad effoct of ij' the amount of precipitation that has 1 occurred in that the area of the marsh L ' that has already been filled In Is being I soaked to such an extent that it Is Halt Ha-lt ble to sink and thereby cause a great ' ) ( part of the work to be done over again. 1 j Rumors that have been current that 1 j the construction of the shops and 1 ! roundhouse wll! not be pushed ahead S as quickly ub uoa thought, and that " i they will be diminished to an extent, I r are without foundation. In the first place the Oregon Short Line company , has over $230,000 worth of property in 1 j that neighborhood, which would be it, unite worthless to It unless the con- i structlon was Koinjr to be carried out, 1 a.nd condemnation suits are now in pro- l . gress concerning: other pieces of prop- i . crty; secondly, the contract that the ) company has made with the Salt Lake 4 road to do the repairs for that line will ' i make It essential that new shops be ; , built as well as a new roundhouse- The 4 extent of the Improvement will doubt- i less be less than was anticipated by " , over-expectations, owlne to the new I I j plans for doing the repairs of the Utah x division of the Union Pacific and the Salt Lake division of the Southern Pa- clflc at Offden, consequent on the re- t, v ' cent shake-up on the Harrlman lines. ' ICevertheless, there Is no doubt that the Improvements are going to be car-, car-, y ried through, as finishing touches are I now being put on plans in the engl- , neer's office. |