| Show THE UNION PACIFIC IC samuel B reed read esq division engineer union pacific railroad accompanied by A J J mathewson Mathew Bon eab esq first assistant engineer arrived in the city on friday these gentlemen enjoy excellent reputations at home as practical engineers and have come thus far west to survey the Wah wahsatch satch range of the rocky mountains preparatory to the location of that national institution which promises to send us in ten years half a century ahead et of the present time we learn from mr reed that the surveying of the different routes leading into this basin is likely to occupy t tl e company which be is about to engage for that purpose all summer the labor on the railroad west of omaha Is going ahead and the line is likely to be completed and in uge use a distance of forty miles before i the end at ct fall for the first twenty miles the road cutting will be both heavy and expensive in grading and bridge building build arg till the line reaches the elk horn after that for six hundred miles the route Is everything the company could desire tue toe difficulties of the line will be houna in uhe the sierra nevala Nev ayla zyla and anil wahsatch Wah satch mountains but neither are insurmountable and the work is as certain to be completed aa as the world wage california is largely interested and goes ahead la inn the en ter prIze |
