Show NO RETRENCHMENT ON LUCIN LUGIN GUT OFF CUT OfF S. S I Har Harriman Harriman iman Lines Cont Contemplate te Double Track Over a ap p Large Portion t WORK TRAINS EMPLOYED s J r Rising W Waters of oi Great Salt L Lake ke Make ke Precautions Necessary R r There is ono one place llaco Jace on the Barr Harrl- retrenchment has man lines lines' where whore not been the word and that one is the portion of the Ogden Ogden-Lucin cutoff over Great Salt lake Jake It Is announced now that about four miles of or t the tho lO double double dou dou- ble track from Lakeside to Rambo 11 i h have he e b ben been en completed and work Is be bc Ing rushed on the the fifth firth mile mUe with a as much c energy as during the tho busiest busies season of ot last year The double tracking of ot the tho road a at that point has been made mado necessary b by the unexpected severity of ot the wave wn action ac ac- ac tion on tho the embankment cm This was par true fi gt ct the west embankments embankment I a tho the last season It If Salt Lake had no not notI J I l last st s spring there might not have beethe been bee t. t t the succession of storms from tho the south last spring there might not babe habe been beer P the necessity for tor such great haste In th the J present work But Salt Lake Is higher y now now than ever er before In r recent cent years and ond tho the wave action bf t f tho the heavy water wate r rno rib no the embankment has hs proved sufficient to move rocs rocks weighing tona tons several hundred feet fet In a single singh storm Engineers of the Harriman lines havo now now reached the tho conclusion that It willbo will wll bo necessary to keep at least one ono steam shovel and possibly one work train constantly constantly con con- on tho the embankment as long Ions as the railroad la is I Necessity of Double Track TracI Notwithstanding this e everything Is done clone to make tho the embankment nt as perk permanent per per- b. b k manent as possible To do tills It ft was necessary that the work tra trails s should be allowed to work without hout Interruption tion don and It ft was as for tor this reason that c the double track at Lt tho the west end of oC i the embankment was first suggested 1 y The Tho second track Is operated exclusively under the engineering d depart department part part- T ment and tho the operating department will not be bo allowed to use It In the general run of ot business until the con- con on the embankment has hns been completed I To withstand the action of ot tho the waves now hOW the em embankments are aro being bing ma made e entirely of the largest stones to be bo obtained from the compan company's s 's quarry at Lakeside These are arc piled Into the bed bedot of ot the lake and then tho the surface of ot the thc mound IB is r rip rapped so as to present present present pre pre- sent the least possible surface for or tho the waves to get any play on the rocks rocles Four Pour or five trains are arc l kept ept busy all allt t the time and large forces are arc employed employ employ- ed at the tho quarries and elsewhere to toi i supply the materials Still It will take some somo months to have the work completed com com- but when It Is the of officials of or ithe the department say BaY they will have S something to be Droud proud of ot l' l In addition on to tho the tho tracking double f y at t the tho no west end embankment from Lakeside to Rambo flambo a double track from Ogden to West rest Weber at the east cost costend end of ot the off cut Is also contemplated J 1 ed cd b by the Southern Pacific It was al alS almost almost al- al S most planned to have the work worl go ahead on that last fall Can but the stringency strIng string- ency came and It Is now stated that nothing will be bo dohe done until the business of the road has picked up again so BO as to require such equipment The purpose purpose of ot the double tracking at the east east end was to han handle le trains In and out of or Ogden without delay |