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Show UTAH LIGHT PUCES ORDERS FOR RAIES Company Is Preparing for Various Extensions of lis Lines. In preparation for various extensions of the lines of tho company, the management manage-ment of tho Utah Light &. Railway company com-pany has just placed orders for 20C0 tons of rails and other materials necessary In proportion. All of tho material will bo hero within six weeks or two months and tho work of putting in the extensions will he rushed. Among tho longest of tho extensions planned will bo about rlvo miles that will ho added to the Holliday line. Machinery for additions to the power plants of the company in Ogden canyon and Big Cottonwood canyon are 'beginning 'begin-ning to arrlvo and the work of putting It into placo will be started as soon as the weather will permit. In tho moan-time, moan-time, every preparation will be mado so that tho work can be rushed from the time that it 1b started. General improvement work requires much attention on the street railway system in addition to tho extension work, and the company will havo a largo force of men at woric as soon as tho ground thaws so that it can be worked. "Railroad Notes. H. W. Prlckelt, commercial agent, and E. E. McDaneld, traveling freight and passenger agent, for the Chicago fc Alton, both with hoadquarters in Salt Lake City, roturned Sunday night from an extended ex-tended business trip through tho northwest. north-west. They report business good, although al-though they had to dodge snowdrifts In tho Cascade mountains. Tracks are all clear there now, they say, but the snow was twenty-seven feet deep on tho Northern Pacific and forty-three feet deep on the Great Northern in some of the mountain passes. D. R. Gray, asBlstant general freight agent for tho Oregon Short Line, went to Helena yesterday. The object of his visit to tho Montana capital is to attend a hearing of the interstate commorce commission that will be held there February Feb-ruary 5. J. B. Durham, chief rate clerk for the Oregon Short Line, is in Seattle attending attend-ing a rate mooting. G. W. Feakins. who was formerly located lo-cated In this city, ha3 been appointed assistant to the traffic manager of tho El Paso & South Western system, with headquarters in Chicago. The appointment appoint-ment was effective February l. Mr. Feakins was formerly traveling frefght agent here for the Rock Island Irouto and later occupied a similar position hero with the Colorado Midland. He left hero about eight years. |