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Show Ties Laid Close Together. Special lo Tho Tribune. AMERICAN FORK. Utah, Nov. 2 During the three' and one-quarter days which Messrs. A. J. Leo and Georgo Storrs wero -engaged in traveling over tho twenty-eight miles of railroad to the asphalt beds, on which thoy wero to count every. tie. thoy counted IGO.Oto tics. Tho Straw and Storrs railway contractors, contract-ors, who constructed the road bed and furnished the tics, wero compelled to do this In order to ascertain tho number of ties they had furnished. This branch railway, built by the owners of tho asphalt as-phalt beds ln eastern Utah, Is estimated as having cost them In ha neighborhood of one-half million dollars. This road is fifty-three miles long, and ln Its course runs over one of the highest mountains In eastern Utah, and nas lor us icrminus Mack. Colo., where It transfers to the Denver & Rio Grande road. R E. King of this place, ono of the earliest Utah settlers and an Indian war veteran, was given a pleasant surprise last evening by his sons, daughters and a fow of his old friends, who were also connected with tho early history of Amorlcan Fork, ln honor of his sevontleth birthday. The evening was pleasantly spent and a daintily prepared supper was served. |