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Show BRANCH TRACK, THROUGH DESERT Southern Pacific Completes Com-pletes 39 Mile Road in Colorado. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 8. After an expenditure of. $500,000 the Southern Pacific Pa-cific 'officials announced yesterday the final completion of a new piece of track thirty-nine miles long in the Colorado desert, which will enable their trains to run without Interference from the waters wa-ters of the Colorado river, which have filled the Salton sink and ruined about forty miles of their main line. The new track will become part of the main line unless the Salton sink is finally rid of water by the proper control of the waters wa-ters of the Colorado. The new track leaves the present main line at Mecca, a station thirteen miles east of Inlo. and Joins the main line again at a place called Volcano. It Is fifty feet higher than the piece of main line It supplants, and is about two miles away from the present level of the water in the Salton sink. |