Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-22 | Page 2 | Work Being Rushed on Idaho Coal Road

WORK BEING RUSHED on mm ROAD Special to The Tribune. IWATFLLO. Idaho. Oct. Jl. Work Is pmrresslnc quite favorably on the col road belnir built In tfie Teton basin by the Oreiron Short Une to tap the v coal deposits 1. Hated about ten miles rrom Tetonla. a station on one of the branches of (he Short Line In the northeastern north-eastern part of the state. Short I.lne employees rrturnlnr to IV-catello IV-catello from tht works state that lnr-Inir lnr-Inir of steel mil begin within ten davs The line will be ten miles in length when completed, and leaves (he IM branch f tt. short I.lne at Tetotil I1,',,,"'!"' construction work Is nirricuu. and one oanvon la pasted IhrouKl, iilmiK the course of the road There still remain nine bridges t,. be built from where the bridge gang Is p. catud at present and a number of bridges have been completed When asked for their opinion as to the win i '"' important rd I, 1',t,r,u'l, " 'raffle they declared hs It Is very doubtful ir anv coal wl l be hauled out of that region ,i n,;r' onlng principally to labor conditions The labor problem seems to be the one bit htumbllnK block In the way oil1 lb" !i "7i'T, ., ',' "Offhlenl labor vnllnhle the road Would proh-H.lv ,Z completed by the first of the ear and the wonderful coal deposit., of that re-Kb.n re-Kb.n woi, be nvsllablo to relie e th daho markets during the n-malnder ,,f pllshed lh" y" lo , ,i. h the grade and bridge, have Wn win a, ;';;--!7t!;vv, :-Tr