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Show WESTERN PACIFIC NOW EXTENDS 25 MILES Notwithstanding that there is a shortage of labor in the railroad camps, more than 200 foreigners and 300 teams and drivers are working on the grading now being rushed on this end of the Western Pacific. Twenty-five miles of track have been laid from Salt Lake, with grade finished eight or ten miles beyond this. The rails have been placed along the south shore of the lake and will soon be to the point where the turn Is made to run west across the desert, where the grade Is partially completed com-pleted for a distance of fifty miles. Seventy-five men are employed with the track-laying machine and about the material ma-terial yards. One hundred and twenty-five twenty-five are working as finishers to the graders. These are mostly Greeks. There Is plenty of material on hand, over sixty cars of ties and rails having arrived since the first of . the week. These remain in the yards until needed at the front. |