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Show CABLE TO GROSS GREAT SALT LAKE Tolograph Line on Cut-OfE ' Will Also Be a Railroad Novelty. A 35-MILE heavy aerial cable carrying carry-ing nineteen wires, will be soon stretched across the Great Salt lake along the Lucin cut-off. The work will be done jointly by the Southern South-ern Pacific and the Western Union and will be the main line for all railroad rail-road and commercial telegraph bui- When the great? cut-off was ,11rst thought of it was informally planned to stretch the wires in. the regular way along the track, but w"hen the engineers engi-neers got their first idea of the high winds on the lake It was at once demonstrated de-monstrated that the wires would not last long In such an unprotected phicc and then it was thought that a regular regu-lar ocean cable would have to be laid. But this was impracticable, too,' as It was found that the action of the water would ruin the cable In a short time. So as a last resort it has been decided that the only way will be to stretch a solid- cable across the whole of the lake section for about thirty-five miles. The wires will be fully insulated and protected pro-tected and tho cable will be strung just as strongly as it Is possible to do iho work, ho that no trouble will result from hlghi winds or higher waves. It will be a noyol telegraph line, but then everything Is novel about the Lucin cut-off. |