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Show SALT LAKE ROUTE HAS BIG IMPROVEMENT PLANS Will Expend One and One-Third Million Mil-lion Dollars in the Betterment of Its System. The Salt Lake Route has begun the expenditure of one and one-third million mil-lion dollars in improvements. These bcttctments included in the 1910 budget prepared by General Manager Man-ager H. C. Nutt and approved by cx-Scnator cx-Scnator Clark and Judge R. S. Lov-ett, Lov-ett, provide for tho spending of $5-17,-000 for new rail of 90 lb. section, $200,000 in bridges, nnd $511,000 in miscellaneous improvements. Several hundred men will bo employed em-ployed to carry out the new work and increased activity will bo displayed along tho entire system. A lnrgo part of the material used will be bought in Los Angeles. The new bridges will be of steel with concrete foundations. Increasing traffic over the short cut to Los Angeles from the inter-mountain states, in summer ns well as winter, win-ter, justifies the extra Investments in tho opinion of tho management. |