Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-04-22 | Page 1 | First 50 MIles of Leamington Cut-off Completed Day; Towns to Celebrate Arrival of First Train

FIRST SaiULES . OF LSAElIilGTON GUT-OFF COMPLETED : ! T0DAY;:T0WNS T0;GELE3BATE;ARRiVAL0FFmSTTRAIN The first fifty miles of track on the Leamington cut-off south from the Salt Lake depot of the Short Line was com- ' pleted today. The steel gang:, as the advance party of the track-laying out- j fit Is called, has now reached a point four miles south of Bt.' John.' ' As the cut-off when completed will be 116 miles In length and as sixteen miles of track has been laid north from this point where the cut-off joins the main line at Leamington, there remains to be completed only fifty miles of track. . The grade for this remaining distance has been completed and all is In readiness readi-ness for the ties and rails. The .ties have all arrived and number more than 150,000. They are distributed along the line at convenient points and are being carried to the front as they are needed. Blxty carloads of ' thirty-foot , rails, enough to lay nearly sixteen miles of track, are now in the Short Line yards ready to be moved to the front and more are expected to arrive dally until enough to complete the entire line are here. :'' ' The track laying . force . has been greatly increased-, during the past few days and now numbers nearly 600 men. The steel gang consists of 120 men. The rest of the gang are employed raising, straightening and ballasting the track. Another train crew was put on the work today which makes four crews now engaged In moving material to the front. In a short time it Is expected that another crew, will be detailed to the cut-off work. Resident Engineer Ashton. who is in Immediate charge of the work, expects to have the road finished by June let-He let-He said today that unless there was some unexpected delay in the arrival of material he would have the track connected con-nected with the sixteen-mile spur completed com-pleted north from Leamington by that date. ' The work of erecting depots and other necessary buildings is being carried on as rapidly as possible at all points on the line that can be reached by rail. The buildings at Tlntlc Junction, which Is a short distance beyond the present end of the line, were commenced com-menced a few days ago. These buildings build-ings . consist of a - roundhouse, coal chutes and depot "buildings. A turn table Is also being constructed at this point. Everything Is In readiness to estab lish a passenger service to Stockton, with the exception of the telegraph line. This is not yet completed. It Is expected, ex-pected, however, that it will reach that point by the end of the week. ' Although it has not been decided by Superintendent Calvin as to the exact date on which the first regular passenger passen-ger train will be run to the mining town, an announcement is looked for within the next few days. This announcement is being anxiously anxious-ly awaited by the residents of Stockton who are making great preparation to celebrate the day on which their town will be connected with the outside werld by rail. ; When the line is formally opened to Stockton that point will be made the temporary business terminal Instead of j Terminus, which now has that distinction.