Show TO 10 CONSTRUCT NEW NEN BLOCK SYSTEM ON FAMOUS CUTOFF I SAN FRANCISCO FRANCSCO June 12 An An Announcement n was wal made at the oUi offices off es I of th tb the Southern Pacific Railroad company com corn L pany here yesterday that an appropriation tion of 12 had been made to install install in in- stall al an alternating current automatic block ai signal nal system across ss' ss the Lucia Lucin cutoff over OTer the tho Great Groat S Salt lt lake Jake A AS S special po power er plant will i be built buit at atI I Lemay Utah to supply the current curent for operating the west e end d of the system which will wJ extend twenty miles mies across the lake Th pot power r for lor the east end ed edwi will Trill wi bo be supplied at tho the Southern Pacific Pa shops chops at Ogden Oden It I is i planned to have the system in operation within ej eight ht months While officers of t the Ore Oregon on Short Line have havo received no official information information tion ton of the improvement announced in inthe inthe inthe the foregoing dispatch tho news d does es not come como aa as a to them At Atthe tho the time the tho block system was being L installed on the various various Harriman Hariman lines Jnes the Lucin Lucia cutoff was included in the system Within a month after ater the system tern tem was established across the l lake ke trouble commenced continuing until about two years year a ago o when the the- block system was abandoned across and to the west of tho the lake as far tar as a Lucia Lucin The Tho trouble arose from water from the lake Jake and sands from the desert which so BO 80 coated the wires wire of the tho signal BIgURI system that thor they thoV were rendered worth worthless less Officers of tho the Short Line Lino stated this morning mornIng that it was evident from tho the dispatch that a n now new w system has been devised for tho the operation of ot the block signal service on this part part of at tho the Southern Pacific and and while m with without out information they express the opinion that it wi will be an overhead system |