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Show ! INCONSTRUCTION I (any Miles Added This- i' ar J fjeW Lines Will Open and il . Develop Several Good Regions of State. i Southern Pacific Will Build 219 Miles I at Hazen and Toano; Many Mles 3 Will Bo Built Frorn Tonopah. i - Once moro tho State, of Nevada comes to tho front in railroad construction. In the last year or two tho mllengo of tho Slato has boon Increased by a total of 275 ntilcs through tho construction principally princi-pally of tho 'Salt Lalto Routo and tho ' Tonopah road. ThW year forty miles will bo added to tho Tonopah line, aud now comes the cheering announcement -from San Francisco that 219 miles will be built In that Stato by the Southern Pacific. An expectant public will await the do-talls do-talls of this construction, as tho lines oro not specified; but Tho' Tribune , can forecast tho probable mlleago to bo included. in-cluded. Rccoiifltructlon .from Ogden .to the California line lias been completed, -so It cannot bo under this important class H of work. , il Tho Hazen cut-off comes first, TJiln V will be a line from Ha::en to Fort Chureh-w. Chureh-w. 111 to cut off 100 miles from Ogden to 1 - :int3 south of Churchill and including i&o great Tonopah district. I "j Xext is the Toano lino, for which sur-Irf sur-Irf veya aro now being mado' by the South-1 South-1 ' era Pacific, This Una leaves tho mala ' ; lino at Toano. 139 miles west of Ogden, i and 16 destined to penotrato Ilia enstern i portion of tho Stato via Cherry Creek i and oxtond to a connection with tho ' l Salt Lako Routo at sonvo point In Lincoln Lin-coln county. Thcso two lines will about cover tho. 1215 miles noted in the dispatch from San Francisco. It will mean thousands of .dol--lara to tho Stato and tho opening of a vast region, which Is certain to be followed fol-lowed by development in both an agrlcul-' agrlcul-' tural and mineral way. Tho Hazen cutoff cut-off will pass through a country that is to come undor a now Irrigating canal projected pro-jected by tho United States Government, whllo tho Toano lino will opon up a now mineral Hold. Certainly the Southern Pacific Pa-cific would not go Into such a largo pro-' pro-' Ject without having fully investigated and found (hat tho country to bo tapped will repay the. roads by. somo eort of traffic. and so It Is a foregone conclusion that ' tho ptw lines will add to tho population 'and wealth of Nevada, whllo the State will again tako tho lead In railroad construction con-struction in tho far "West. |