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Show imDA DESERT B. Ip id California ll Crowds Rashing. ifjcal Gang Will Badly Beat Ijjwthe Others to the Good IK Springs Summit, Jttwnrjiiimg Awny Behind In Their .W&Vbrk and Will Therefore Not JwB Beach Goal Until Later. Down on tho desert of Lincoln, county 'I fbclnff pulled off as pretty a contest as $ In' be found anywhere. It Is a test of erJtmanfihJp between tho rival con-motion con-motion forces of Utah and California rn building tho San Pedro, Los a bgeles & Salt Lake railroad. When M contracts were let the lino from lllento to Daggett, 800 miles, was ? vlded In halves, the one section of 150 ilea north from Daggett to be con-si con-si ructed by the Callfornlans and tho 150 n 6m Callente south to be handled by Te Utah forces. V The Utahns will make the Call-vj Call-vj i'rnlans look like 30 cents In thle con-t, con-t, as the former will be at Good y brings long before the Callfornlans seas the State line. Good Springs summit is about midway J stween the two places. The crowd roin this end Is now past Vegas, and only have to work easily along to oleh their section before December 1. Unless thft crew from Keasler summit gets a mighty hustle on the line from there will not be nearly llnlahed by December De-cember 1. The Utah Construction company now has but about twenty-fivo miles more to grade barring the heavy cuts, and will shortly be in a position to throw Its purplufl men to the work of widening banks below Lynn Junction, which is of even greater importance than completing complet-ing the line, as tho delay in the California Cali-fornia end will mean that even with tho work completed from thin sldo the gap cannot be closed. Tho Utah Construction company already al-ready has on the line between Lynn Junction and Uvada peveral large forces, and tho work Is being niBlied. Every three miles a 3000-foot siding is being graded and laid with Htcel that is taken up from the old main llnj and replaced re-placed with new aeventy-flve-pound rails. The work of ballasting the line below Milford can be pushed nil winter, as the weather is not severe enough to freeze up the material. The Leamington cutoff cut-off avIU be finished this year, and then the steam shovel can be moved to a point near Uvada or Callente, where there Is ample material. |