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Show WESTERN GRAVEL PITS Costly Plant Established in Narrows. HAS INEXHAUSTIBLE SUPPLY The Gravel Is From the Slopes of Point Mountain and Makes tho Finest Kind of Ballast Lengthy Sidings Tut in nnd Steam Shovel nt Work Loading tho Material-Raising Material-Raising tho Track Near Smelters With Earth Brought Fiom tho Big Cut nt Mes.v Wlthln the last few weeks the Rio Grande Western hns perfected nr ratigements for opening up one of the most extensive gravel pits in the West nnd tho gravel Is now being taken out for usei on the main line from Ogden east to be laid liumedlntelj following follow-ing the ehango of line now In pro-cress pro-cress The pit Is located nt the Point mountain moun-tain half n mile cist of the Rio GtHtide track and some thousand feet below the summit on the Short I Ine's ruck to Provo The hitter eompinj bus fot jears been tnklng out gravel from tho summit 1111 1 travelers over that nnd will tendllj recognize the place as It Is the point wheie the trains of the Short Line run nlont- n high ptecli Ice nnd rut below is tho green lueudow with the Rio Grande track In the distant e ESPHS'SIVE TRCK I1UILT. At grtnt expense the Rio Grande has built n trick Into the swnle and located lo-cated Its pit on the north slopes of the mountain the track winding around the base nf tho mountain und on tho edge of the canal Hero Is an Inexhaustible siipplv of gravel und It makes tho finest bnllnst tn be secured inj where In Ihe West. It nlrcadj has bt en distributed on the main lino from Nintlt South to Murrnj and when tho ttiiins tun over 11 tun ease nun cleanliness clean-liness 1110 nt once temnrked When the wholo lino In so treited tho toad will be as smooth ns nnj, It won a eostlj piece of work when the ttnek was built Into the swale, for It Is 011 a sleep grade nil 1 when the lino crosses tho hollow a brldgo nhout SCO fc-t lonr was neccssatj This brldgo consists or tunny fpans, being the wooden bridges formerly epnmilng the livers down on the desert. The track leaves the m iln line In Jordan Jor-dan nntiows and has been built to handle nn Immense number of bullast cars. The Marlon shovel is located at the t It and trnlnloads or the grnvel are taken nut dallj, RAISING THE GRADE. Earth from the big Mesa cut Is being be-ing brought to tho line through the smelters where tho banks nro being widened and the tiuck tnlrcd ut piilnlH At Muirny the trai k has been raised 10 feet and nt Lovendnhln 11 feet 1 inches From Lnvcndahls to Rlvcrton the lulse Is from one to four feet On top of this tho ballast will be spread. In nddltlon tn the ballast trains with uiilonder, the company has Iu service for the eirth a Lldgcrwood unloader, and this Is giving excellent satisfaction satisfac-tion Tialnmaster Cotter took the Tribune Tri-bune reiiorter over the work jeslcrilay nnd the amount of work done, tho labor la-bor saving devices, thej notable changes In tho line nnd the' fine npponrunco of the completed ttnek, made tho nf-ternoon nf-ternoon a most lntetestlng one The liucyrua shovel Is still In the big cut nt Mesa and HiIh cut. when finished fin-ished will bo one of the longest nnd deepest In thin pirt nf the countrj. It Is a mile long nnd about 00 feet deep In the eleepest part. Snme big fills nnd other cuts ntn being mnde foi the new line. |