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Show ' RAILROAD MEN AT WOIKJHWYOMING Many Surveyors An1 Bn8j Kun-oing Kun-oing Linos in t!i4 Neighboring Neigh-boring State. EXTENSIONS IN NEBRASKA INCREASE PRICE OF LAM) Another Ronte for Burlington to Salt Lake City Is Outlined. A report to the Cheyenne Trlhune from Encampment Is to the effect that n party of Burlington surveyors are In the North Park, headed this Way. As the surveyors of the continuation of tho Saratoga and Encampment railroad are also In that section, sec-tion, the lUirllngtou surveyors have no connection with the other road and are on some new project To Snlt Lake Via Encampment Their presence is taken as an Indication Indicat-ion thai the Hurllngton lt endeavoring to locate a route to Sail Lake via Kn- campment, and why not? Encampment I nearly due Sasl from Salt Lake, Krom this point the rom1 COUld go u the north fork -if the Encampment river, over the divide and down one of the tributaries of the Snake river, thence down Snake river from which it could K to Evanston. which has bi-en unnoum-d .1 one of its objective points en roUO U Salt Lake. Great Coal Deposits. Tills route would take In the immense coal deposits and cattle. Industry of North Tark, the mlnliiK Industry of Pearl. Colo., Encampment, Battle and Rambler, and the cattle Of the North Platte and Snuke rler valleys, and would avoid large stretches of desert land necessarily covered cov-ered by a route further north. U. P. and "Q."' Both Busy. Railroad gangs at work on the l"nlon Paritle anil Hurllngton extensions in Nebraska Ne-braska along the North Platte are culling for a large number of laborers In thnt section and are also greatly raising the price of farm lands In that vlclnlt Many men and teams are now employed near Sutherland on the construction of tho Noiih river extensions of both the Burlington Bur-lington and Union Pacific. Several hundred hun-dred yards of steel have beep lal! out of I O'Fallon by the Union Pacific, which Is a No to put In new rails In place of the old along the main line In that vicinity. The old steel will be tiseij on part of the new line. The headquarters of W. C. Bradbury, who has the contract for building the Union Pacific grade on the llershev-Northport llershev-Northport extension, are located at Sutherland, Suth-erland, and the shipments Of laborers and grading outfits are In many Instances sent th.n- and later distributed over the proposed pro-posed route. |