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Show To Eliminate Grades. An expenditure of $1,020.00 in straightening straight-ening tlie Oregon Navigation line between be-tween Yoakum and Pendleton, twelve and one-half miles, has been authorized. The new line will eliminate in all degrees of curvature and forty-eight feet of adverse ad-verse grades. The maximum grade on the new route will be eight-tenths of 1 per cent and the line will be shortened 1.7 miles. The horseshoe curve will be eliminated by the construction of a tunnel through tho tongue of the horseshoe. This tunnel tun-nel will be through solid rock and 1100 feet long. |