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Show WORK TO BEGIN ON MOFFAT RAILROAD It is expected that in a few days material ma-terial will-be hauled for the construction construc-tion work on the Moffat road. Eight carloads of material, including scrapers, scrap-ers, drills and . other . tools will ' be freighted from Empire to the summit where sleds will be used to haul It over the mountains. Tracklaylng will probably begin about the middle of this month on the east side of the range. Several trainloads of treated Texas ties are now on the way to Denver, from where they will be shipped to the front when needed. Contracts will probably be let for the construction of the road east from Salt Lake as soon as the Uintah Indian reservation res-ervation is opened by the Government. Representatives of the Moffat road are now In Washington to make arrangements arrange-ments for the right of way through the reserve. |