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Show LINE TO BINGHAM SOON TO BEGIN Surveys Are Now Complete. Will Be the First Interur-ban Interur-ban Line Out of the City. Mining Hen "Will Be Enabled, to Go to and From "Work in Quick Time. Prom present Indications the extension exten-sion of the Salt Lake &. Utah Valley railroad to Bingham will be the first Intcrurban electric line to be completed com-pleted out of Salt Lake City. Surveys for this line arc now complete, the rights of way have been virtually all secured and Eastern principals of the company are expected In the city in a few days to complete cortain details preliminary lo the awarding of contractu con-tractu for construction work. It Is expected ex-pected that the work to be done this winter will be confined In the main to the hill work at tho Bingham end, where much blasting Is to be done, for the reason that thly work can be carried car-ried on in winter ay well as in summer. sum-mer. With the coming of, spring, it is said, everything will be- In readlncrs to push the work all along the line 10 speedy completion. Twenty-One Miles Long. Profiles of the new road In the ofllce of Charlca D. Moore, the companj v engineer, show an almost direct line from this city to Bingham, the length ot the line being a fraction over twenty-one twenty-one miles, or about seven miles-shorter miles-shorter than the existing steam railroad route between the two points. For a distance of some six of s?even miles out of this city three different lines have been located, the one lo be finally eho&sn depending somewhat upon up-on the respective Inducements offered by persons owning real estate along the different linea There Is little difference dif-ference in Iheiss lines so far as serving the nurnoses of the road Is concerned. One deflects southward upon reaching the Redwood road, another continues westward to the Garden city townslte before turning ,south. and the third takes an intermediate course. The difference dif-ference In mileage I very slight. Will Have Easy Grades. The road will have only two and a half miles of mountain work and only a mile and a half of this, at the Bingham Bing-ham end, will be very heavy. The remainder of the lino runs through a level country, with the exception of tho bench lands, which form an easy ascent to the mountain? A good portion por-tion of the route la through a thickly populated, prosperous farming country. Residents of the Granger neighborhood are highly gratified on account of the prospect W being provided with easy access to the city, while mining men who have Interests In Bingham will find it easy to live In Salt Lake and attend lo their business in the mining camp. Rights of Way Secured. "Rights-of-way for the new line have been secured from all but three or four Jand owners along the route," said Engineer En-gineer Moore yesterday, "and construction con-struction will be commenced as soon as a few preliminaries shall have been settled. As a rule the land owners have been glad to donate the right-of-way, but there are Just a few who are holding hold-ing out for a higher price than we consider con-sider Just. With the choice of routes given us, however, these matters can be easily adjusted, and there appears now to be nothing in the way of work on the road being: undertaken very toon." |