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Show TUNNEL LENGTH TO BE REDUCED Yesten Pacific Is to Cut Down Tunnel From 12,- 055 to 6500 Feet; Ten ' ; Months for Building. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11. The Western West-ern Paclflo railroad, on its line now "being "be-ing built between Salt Lake and San Francisco, about a year ago decided to have a $4,000,000 tunnel through the Go-shut Go-shut range, in eastern Nevada, near Flower pass. The tunnel was to have been 12,085 feet long. It has now been decided to reduce the length of this tunnel to 6500 feet. It is to cost $2,000,000, and will be completed within ten months. By its construction six miles of trackage will be cut off and grades reduced to four-fifths of 1 per cent over the Ooshute range.. |