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Show blectric Gars For Home-Coming Week Halls -Voir Laid from .Salt Lnko to l'roio on ((rem (toad To He Kk'ctrlllc.l h .lulj. VIco President W It. Armstrong of tho Orem roud was. in American Kork I'uvsday looking after thu company's uuslnesB. Ho called at tho Citizen of-llco of-llco and among thu good nuwu that lie roleased was tho statement that In all probability electric cars would haul tho pcoplu from Provo, Salt I.nko City aim lniormedlatcp olnts to American Fork Tor tho festivities during Homecoming Home-coming week. Tho Salt Lake & Ltah Intcrurbau raliroau was scheduled to reach i'rovo by June 1. On this day the last steoi was placed ou the brtugo over 1 rovo river auU uio bridge completed, bo that atl iu now in shape for running trains except a nine straightening of tho tracii In u fow places, which can be done in a few days, i rains are now running onto i'rovo iieiich, though there Is no regular schedule south of American fork, mid there will be none till utter tho road is eleclrllicd In July. Several crews are busy stretching tho heavy trolley liuNi which will bo completed in the near future as far as Lludou. The wooden luculatoru on tho wires stretched across American Kork Alain Btrect would lndlcuto a doublo track along this thoroughfare. During tho coming week thu big steam sliovel will commence loading gravel cars with ballast for surfacing dio unfinished stretch from Pleasant urovo to Provo, There is considerable speculation ou where the new ruad will build its stu-tlou stu-tlou in Provo, but no definite Information Informa-tion on this point Is obtainable. Some llmo ngo negotiations were entered I into for the purchasu of thu west sldel of the Tabernacle block for this pur-J pose, mid a price wus mndo to tho coinpnuy. It is stated, however, by a number of the board of directors that tho deal has not been closed and probably will not bo. Tho old light aultvooii east and west ends will probably prob-ably help the railroad to secure terminal ter-minal facilities at more than a reasonable reason-able cost. |