Show I 1 SAN Drifting allo on Devils 1011 I ln ground Will e Trouble on un Track Tho The problem which for tor years has baa faced the 0 O II I N east cast ot or tho the Dalles Dall s will viii willbo wi bo ho duplicated on art tho tIne Salt Sail Lake Lako Route Houte across the tho natural freak known wn as ni The Devils Playground At this spot nl ml most lost tine the same sume conditions prevail a athose ni as those encountered on the banks of ot the tho Columbia where tho tine track becomes burled within a n few tw hours under drift driftIng drifting Irl Ing scud sand that no snow plow or on blower will wil remove This Thin Devils Playground Is II practically praet practically cally caly situated on ann tho the California line lime lne and consists of ot a I vast stretch ot of fine white sand Rand smoothed out olt lIke Ilka Iko a asea I Ison asea sea son In placed and nai In others billowed like Ilka an ocean While It Is solid sold enough to tolay tolay tolay lay rails rais on tho the surface it I Is II nevertheless less a 1 treacherous t spot Sometimes tine the wind rises In an nn hour and the sand annul sant shifts Ilk Ik driven snow Engineers leave have h e completed laying track across this section see lon and already have havo their troubles commenced according to reports Some Sometimes Sometimes times thee thu th track Is burled buried beneath thrifts drifts at tnt lt others other subtle eddying cur currents clr rents of ot air have actually undermined the tho roadbed driving out ou t tho tines sand heaping It I up lP In drifts dUts far on tins the other side leaving tine the bent rails rais suspended to the tue ties tes two or three thieo feet teet In tho the air When the road rond Is finished It will beronie necessary to have hlo watchmen stationed nt at this tide section who will wi walk the track and see se that nil all ni Is II 0 O K N prior to the passing of ot a n train One can cain pictures picture the tine life of ot these Isolated from humanity In la the midst of ot a 1 howling wilderness where not oven even a It blade of ot grass Is II visible Day after tiny lay and night might after nl ht In dazzling heat haunt hOt or n R blinding dust storm wi they patrol the tho track guarding the lives Ivos of at the tIne pas pots passengers passengers who lie 10 steeping sleeping In the tine luxurious Otis ous alI Pullmans as run they sail nail Mi across neross tho the bad minus lands I Rl s Should tinG tho lonely patrol patrolman martin man fall fail tho tine chances are that tho tine urn lim limited making up II lost time across nerOM the tho level stretch would ba bo piled up UI In inc tho the aid desert miles mies from water and surgical |