| Show RAISE TRA TRACKS KS ABOVE WATERS Western Pacific Begins Active Defense Against Great Salt Lake FORCES AT LAKE POINT Trainloads of Rock Are Rushed to Danger Zone With Workmen The work 0 of raising tho the Western e tem Pacific tracks crossing the southern corner conlea of Great Salt Snit Lake a n dl distance of six ix and one-half one miles has begun and hundreds l of carloads of or rock are being rushed to the work ground With YUh even e a slight C breeze at nt the present pros pros- cat ent level le of the lake lako the waves wash over the tracks and they are arc becoming becom becom- iu big ing rapidly ruste rusted 1 U Using other years rears as a criterion the lake lako m may between en now and aUd August rise at least two feet teet and the utmost dispatch is regarded as y sary In lit raising the tracks Two weeks ago ngo was appropriated appropriated ap al- ap- ap for the work Yesterday us may as at carloads of stono stone had hail arrived at Lako Laico Point and yet et SOl 30 carloads are arc to follow Two crews of oC construction hands arc are about aboul th the work worl and more expected to arrive l soon Although h the entire six and one half miles of track has IHl been rip rip- rapped that lint work avails little as the lake continues to rite rise and the waves wa at ut the tho least wind submerge the track When hen the water Is quiet the track Is Isnow I now Just thirty inches above the tho level of or the water I Three weeks ago o attention was called through The Republican that from the tho present high level lo of th the tho mIce lake and Its ut customary rise riso during the next five 11 months and the short distance distance dis dis- tance of or the Western Pacific tracks above tho the water level le that those thoe tracks would In the cour course c of oC th the tho summer be 10 submerged cd The engineers I of ot that railroad i lau laughed hed at tho the Idea and said ald that such a thing was Im mi- possible Tho The record record- keeper however howe has hns no favorites and when he has spoken his word is Construction of ot the Western Vestern Pac His will reach Carlin Nov Nev e Wednesday and transportation between Salt Lake and Elko Nov Nev ev will begin In April 1 I. |
