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Show WORK' CN SAK';PBB?tO. IS.; a BEING PUSHED RAPIDLY . - , LOS ANGELES, March 7. The San Pedro. Los-Angeles & Salt Lake railroad was openedor freight and passenger trafllo today as far eastward a Ontario, forty miles from Loa Angeles. The event Is being celebrated by a free excursion Of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Citizens of Pomona and nta mada elaborate preparations for the entertainment of the visitors, who will spend several hours In each place.' - Tracklaylng is complete .beyond Ontario as far aa the crossing of the Santa. Ana river at Riverside, where a big steel and concrete bridge is being erected. Train service 'will be extended to Riverside In a few months, and probably also to Redlands and San Bernardino by the 1st of July., The track so far as completed is the finest railway construction In southern-California, southern-California, and the rolling stock is of latest and best design ad manufacture. Sixty carloads of steel rails for the new -road ara due In a few days at Bagdad, in the Mojave desert, where the Salt Lake road will probably cross the Santa Fe. Many carloads of bridge material and grading machinery are also being unloaded In the desert, and it is expected that a large force of men will soon "be at, work grading the roadbed In that section of the country. ' . . I, ' |