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Show SILL Mi OF HMWED Bingham and Garfield Road Work Gives Employment to Big Crowd. GOOD PROGRESS IS MADE ON GRADING Tunnels and Grade Portions Should Be All Completed by Spring. Close to 1000 men are employed by tho contractors in constructing tho Bingham and Garlield railroad line, leading from the Utah Copper mine to the mills at Garllold. Every possible effort, is being expended to have the line In shape for transporting ore by a year from date. Steam shovels and innumerable tcums are being utilized wherever possible in this work. Visitors from the district say that fully one-fourth of the grading for the line, exclusive, of course, of the tunneling, has been completed, and by spring all this grading and tunnel work should be ready for track laying The company has let the contracts for the various steel bridges to bo set in place as soon as possible. The maximum grade will he not to exceed ex-ceed 2.5 per cent, and ninety-pound rails will be laid. The Utah Copper company in addition Is doing considerable reconstruction work at the mills. The Magna mill, or the original Utah Copper plant, has been remodeled completely, but not to exceed one-third of tho remodeled part of tho plant is in operation. The materials for remodeling the old Boston Consolidated mill, now known as the Arthur, are en route to the camp and will bo placed In position as soon a possible. It is understood un-derstood that the' management will try and llnd places at Garfield for the old employees of the Copperton plant, Just closed down. |