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Show DOINGS AT THE TERMINUS. We were much pleased to meet, on Tuesday last, Hon. [Honorable] M. W. Merril, who is engaged on a heavy contract on the U. & N. [Utah & Northern] north of Dillon, the present terminus. He has 175 men employed, mostly in constructing "rip rap"? work, or retaining walls as they are sometimes called. These men earn $2 per day and board, and some of the best get $2.50? and board. They will probably be able to continue work all winter. The grade is completed to a point 35 miles beyond Dillon, and Mr. Merrill's men are working just beyond the end of the grade, in what is known as Big Hole canyon. Mr. Merrill states that Dillon is "settling down" to what might be termed a bed rock condition. Railroad men and transients are leaving as winter advances, and the population is growing less, and as a consequence, times are less lively than they have been. |