Show i r DELAY IN JOINING WESTERN PACIFIC Connection to be Made Marie With Rio m Grande Western vy j I I M To Today day it 4 S 'S SHORT LINE SPUR TORN UP t v Xo 4 I ion rIll for Junction Vilh Vitla An J t O J-O I 4 othur llIn h Impeded to In t 1 2 Meet Fate I. B Core noon today tOllay it iLls Is expected the thc last spike t connecting the lie Western estern Pa- Pa cilia with Jit till the rUn Rio Grande will have o havet J t been heon driven enabling construction trains of ur the new now Gould line to lo switch from tun the Rio Itlo Grande system direct ct carrying supplies to the tho scene of nf ac- ac ti at th the lie junction of or the Western anti and the Salt Lake Laker r route route- uto near nearly quarter one mile west f of or the river ri Tracks were laid from the river rl to a point within n rL- af f fow feet foet of ot the tue junction with the lie Rio Hlo Grande Western t e rn last week but Jut till the connecting o of the lines hues was ns dela delayed ed by hy the tho necessity ity for getting special crossings to tu lay at al First Ijlst South antI and Sixth Sith rest streets t where wl tho thit track of or the Ow Western leaves the tue other uther line a few J JoeL leet et south of or the thc street crossing and anti intersects the street car at nl an au angle Ye Yesterday the and el crossing clo were eIe completed corn com hut but the two short holt sections of or rail were vei-e nut not placed 11 anti and when till the w workmen rl quit last L there thell was vas a aS aSI S SI ane CO of or only t twelve el feet to lo be he over O From Flom this point the tracks racks s are arc continuously con con- laid haiti and spiked until tile they I reach ranch tho scene IW of the famous fatuous Har liar Ilman double douile cro cross where the Un Oregon Ore Ore- gon goti Short Line tried a game of or bluffin bluff in building a n. useless spur across the lIw Western Pacific right o of wa way Didn't Know I it Was as as There When hen prominent of if the he Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon goit Short Line a ft few fe w weeks ago de declared tie tie- dared they had no o g-o of the thc spur SPLIt it might have been heen their conception con con- c of a lithe joke but when the Western Pacific con construction gang r reached the spur sp and was ready to build through it the they apparently knew us as little about it 3 as J the lie Oregon Ong Short Line Line- who Iio ordered Its Us construction for fOI the railroad builders builders build build- ers erg went through it like a bay steer steel through a hetI hedge l' l as one of the fore fore- men expressed cd It This was at the I i- i tn o. o point l where the tho bluff spur flIr the one from the Oregon Short Line used by hy tIll the Fishier Fisher Brewing coman com coin pany an The he construction gang of or t the he Western Pacific left the brewery spur intact running the rails of the new newline line lino under tinner the tracks of Ut the hue spur They were lai laid and spiked however r. r leaving ing no provision for an au Intersection I tion un anti and to all appearances the work worl was done with ij the Intention of or cutting cut cut- ting hog through the spur at nt an any time when thIe Pacific saw lit fit or 01 desired ll to lo run Its Ils trains through h At t Atthe the rate rale the thit work worl on the line Is progressing pro grossing gressing this will wUl be J done in the lie next two days ltV wo Spurs lo U roilS Gas Works A railroad man who said he did not want to be he mixed in the nf- nf fall fair said y yesterday It Il looks as ns though tho the announce- announce mont intuit that all differences r Ilot between cn Gould tand anti amI lahnan Int Interests had f be ii U a little premature for there is no evidence e of any a agreement agree agree- ment mont In lii the till stretch of track between Ninth and Tenth t West t streets where the effort to block the tho Western Pacific Pa Pa- cHIc was vas m made It is hi apparent however how how- ever that the Gould people have ha the upper r hand as It will operate two spurs from thu lie line hue to the thc new gas gasworks gasworks works worl s ea east t of Ninth Vest West street and appears to have cut cul off two su irs from the lie Oregon un Short Line entire entire- ly Iy GI Grading has 1131 h been en completed to lo the till rails ails of oC the time Salt Lake route roule west vest of the Tol Jordan an river rivet an and the rails have I been laid haiti and amid spiked up II to lo the property prop ert erty line IIno of the lie right of way wa- The Tue heavy cross ros I raj IS Is for the junction have and the track not arrived however ho t all on west toward towar Beuna Dcuna Vista will not be he laid until these are in place Substantial Materials als Used The quality of or the rails ane and tics ties as well ll a as the lie con construction work on un the new ne' road has JJ been l n the subject of or f hl f by hv local Tone road rond men who have been out to Sixth West est st street where the he Western e hIn raci- raci lie joins the Rio Grande system The he rails arc all laid on un plates of the time latest Improved c type tTe with six spikes to lo each tie tic an and amid the method of securing lug Jug them will in iii th Ii opinion o of the thi engineers in III char charge e mal make creeping impossible Three or four interested of the ones went to the thc junction tracks at C G o'clock last night having haYing a a. rumor that the last spike was to be bo driven at that 1111 time connecting con coil the tho two u lines hues They soon sa saw however r that no connection could coul be he ma made e before today |