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Show SALT LAKE BRANCH LINE WORK BEGINS Railroad Company Will Expend Ex-pend $1,400,000 on New Road. i Special to The Tribune. DOS ANGELES, Jan. 1. Work of ron-I ron-I structing the Salt Lake branch line from Pico Station to Santa Ana, twenty-four i miles, will begin tomorrow morning, it j was announced today. This line will cost ! $1,400,000. This is only one of the many improvements and extensions planned by i this company, which will, according to H. C. McNutt, general manager, expend . ?5,r.OO.OOO duripg 1917. Among the other improvements and ex-i ex-i tensions, in addition to the equipment i planned, will be the laying of 200 miles of ninety-pound steel rails, at an approxi-' approxi-' mato cost of ?1,.:00,000; additional ballast,; $50,000; improving the company's water supply at Us.Vepaa, New. 52,000 ; installing in-stalling automatic block signals along the main line, JL'90,000; bridges at Clover valley val-ley wash and a concrete arch over the Sevier river, just south of Lynndyl, Utah. $1 0,0on, and miscellaneous improvements amounting to,Slfi0,000. New equipment, consisting of 750 self-duntpiner self-duntpiner sK:el gondola cars and six giant locomotives of the latest type and highest high-est power, represents an expenditure In all of S1.S00.000. Tills is part of a carefully care-fully planned campaign that has been car iied out over a period of year., with a view to keeping the properly In first-class first-class physical condition and to care for the ever-tmreasing volume of traffic flowing over tho lines. |