Show REOPENING Of RAILROAD MEANS Reconstruction of Salt LaKe Lathe Route Not Accomplished Without Effort If the eD and construction men who havo have been engaged in tho the rebuilding rebuild rebuilding in ing of the Salt Lake route official announcement announcement an of the reopening of which has b been en made for JunO June 15 15 would tell their story it would prove ono one of the most interesting in railroad construction tion in tho history of this country It would bo boR bea a story first of absolute faith in tho the minds of or th those 80 most interested financially in tho road who after over miles of the tr track k had been washed out within forty eight hours homs came back with the announcement that the UIO road would bo be rebuilt Never in tho history of railroading I in any country it is stated has there been such a washout as that which theS the tho S Salt lt Lake c route 8 suffered on December 31 1909 and January Jar 1 1910 It was wasa a railroad disaster that crippled not alone Salt Lake Lako Cit City but Los Angeles and ever every town alon along tho entire route route II They will never rebuild the tho route was tho the verdict of many The They i e dently did not know the tho men behind the tho Salt Lake Lako route First were sent out they thc were told to tell tho the real story of the tho disaster They were told to find if possible a better rout route Be Bo it known the tho men b behind hind the Salt Lake Lako route rout never havo have badan bad had any an ides idea of abandoning it These cn engineers mn made a their report They had inspected at least three different different dif dif- ferent routes Th The Tho most favorable report re re- report port ort was for lor the tho building of a temporary temporary tempo tempo- line over tho old ld route and then a high line irie Tho proposition was one that would Imp haw staggered tR most railroad railroad com companies panics Millions of dollars dollars' worth of and equipment had been lost H Rebuild the road in the least pos pos- t tim time was w was s tho the word that camo came from rom the tho head officers of the company compan It is Impossible for anyone e of the railroad world to understand what this order meant True it was not pos possible ible to start mento men mento ment t to work in da in week a day nor a n But within twenty four four hours after tho the official official of of- order had tad been received d orders order were plated placed for timber amber for bridges forties forties for tor ties ties for steel for or bridges and track Within a week th the bi biggest est construe construe- I tion companies in tho the country were were bid bidding ding dinst on the work The They were given to understand that it was to be a 3 rush job that from tho the time timo that work was commenced until it was finished there thoro was to be no letup Work Night and Day Tho The contract was awarded and for tor forthe the tho first timo time in the history of railroad rail railroad road construction or reconstruction with the exception of ot em small email all washouts tho the construction forces havo have worked ni night ht and day On some sections of tho the flooded districts three shifts of ot eight hours each cach have been employed Two and later three work trains have havo been sent to the tho front every day for a month from Aeoma Acoma Two have bave been going out daily from Caliente and n-d n at least two coming cast from Mo Moapa pa It is a a record that marks a now erain era erain erain in r railroad construction Timber and ti ties 8 were hurried to the front from both ends Steel arrived by th the carload and had the ri right ht of ofTay way Tay to the destination Nearly a hundred undred miles mills of track had bad to bo be dug dUJ up or nc new track put in its place bridges bridges' had bad gone out some of which cost thousands of dollars The They must be bo replaced Never for a second from the timo time that that tho the official order was given cn to rebuild tho the lino line has there been peen any letup in the work Reopening Means Much When Whon the tho official announcement came yesterday that the road would resume traffic not Inter later than Juno June 15 there thore was joy in Salt Lake Lako Cit City That joy is ili shared by the tho people of Los Angeles and every intermediate point on tho lino This announcement not only means mean that passenger traffic will bo be resumed but it also means moans that the big biJ cantaloupe canta loupe loupo crop of the tho Moapa district will willgot got to tho the local and eastern market It means meaDS that the tho greater granter part of the lemone lemons lem lemA ons one and oranges which will be shipped from southern California after that dat date will comp como via vin the tho Salt Lake Lako route Tho The reopening of or the Salt Lake Lako route will mean much to Salt 1 Lake Jake C City try It means much to the satire entire west |