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Show RAILROAD Mi I ARE ENTHUSED Sparks Division in floe I Condition, Parly of Officials Return From a Trip Over the Line. With Completion of Ballasting Track Will Equal That of Any American Road. Special to The Tribune. OGI'F.N, Juno 10. Superintendent E. C. Mansr.;i of the Southern Paclllc, Resident Engineer Thomas Fitzgerald and Trnln-master Trnln-master T. F. Rowlands havo returned from u trip of Inspection over the division di-vision of Mr. Manscn as far west a.s Spark Mr Manson expresses himself as enthused with the physical condition of the road. , , . 'It Is in flno share, he paid, 1 and when we get the little piece of ballasting between be-tween Dceth and Well finished, a distance dis-tance of some twenty-si-ven miles, we v. Ill have a division that if all right. Mr. Manson states that the work of this ballasting leg.m y. si. rday morning nitr. win be pressed to completion. There are four train or. ws at work moving the gravel, one big steam shovel supplying the cars, it will take two or three months- to finish tlx work, but when It Is completed iho track from Bfotella to Reno will be In as good condition as any piece of track on a single, line railroad In Ameri.a. The old Buena Ventura. Mr Manson B future private car, la now In the Southern Paclllc shops at Ogden. undergoing an overhauling and remodelling that will turn her OUt on Of the best equipped special cars in the Weet This was Superintendent Super-intendent Scott a car when be was here, but the changes that arc being made In her will be in the line of an entire r. -vorsnl of her former interior. The car will bo out of the shops In ahout ten days, and in the meantime Superintendent Man-son Man-son Is using his old Idaho division ear, the t-Spot, |