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Show WESTERN PACIFIC PUSHING TO OCEAN Hundreds of Men and Teams at Work West of (Jar-liold. (Jar-liold. SEVENTY MILES OF GRADING COMPLETED Laying of Track Will Not Begin for Se v oral Months Yet. cjuietly but lu-nrmisiy work on th Western Pacific proceeds and ..very ilnj Is bringing It t-earei Its (fal. There In no ostentatious dls-pla dls-pla about the construction of the road, nor l there ant delay In pushing It fomord toward to-ward flm ocean Hundreds of Mn and Teams. Apotit three hundred teams are at work on th grading and somn two hundred tennis are CmpiOysd conveying; supplies to the various camp I'etMecn 'ni nnd "0 men are on the I a r .1 1 . s.,tno frelghtlnit hut the (rrealest liumter tlnc on the grading work Seventy Miles Completed. The grade has alrcadv been mnd" nm seventy sev-enty miles wst of darfleld Reoi-h Ths la lug of ate has not vet commonest), "" w'" not be hegon for several months vet rout niontha st c.t With the laving of the trn- k will l-gln the construction ol the brldcaa ani. of ciurse, when this work begins hundred of nu-re men will he employed The Base of Supplies. Th points from which supplies are oh-tnlne.l oh-tnlne.l ur tati'Deld Boach, ;rnntvle and Media. The provisions, tinil-, rump cqtilp-nent cqtilp-nent etc., are consejed t rail to thene lonts and thence overland DJT team to tha vsrloija caiiiva. The dlstam --a are long tnd to maintain an army ot some MO men In the Held the dnllv supply must t-n large, ho that It can he readily Understood thnt th- work of maintaining a full supplv for all needs l an undertaking of no amnii dimensions Rut the work goes .,n iteadlly and without a hitch. The mobility of the supply ourpa ta excellent nnd the organization almost perfect. |