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Show !miy or men V WORK ON ROAD . : I So complete has been the washout on tbe Salt Lake line In Meadow Valley that even the telegraph wires have been Iwashed away. No word has been heard at looal offices from the damaged section. sec-tion. Rush orders are coming in thick and fast however, from A coma, the present pres-ent terminal, for immense quantities of - , piling, ties and -bridge timbers. Local officials are kept busy filling these demands. de-mands. No Indication as to the time It will take to resume through traffic on the road Is to be had at lcx-al offices. Those in a position to know, however, are of the opinion that it will be three weeks before traffic Is resumed In full. 1 An army of 3000 men is working day I .and night to get track and roadbed once 'more In good shape, and almost every official of-ficial of the operating department is on the spot. The damaged track extends through a box canyon, and in this stretch tracks, embankment:, roadbeds, sheds and telegraph poles are washed away. 1 Meanwhile, every effort is made by local passenger men to boost local business, and the name Is done by freight officials at this end. That stretch of the road leadlgn from Los Angeles to the Western side of the washout is doing a good local business. |