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Show 1NTERURBAN FROM LOGAN TO OGDEN TO BE BUILT THIS SUMMER x Rapid Transit Companies of This And The Junction City to Connect Lines. Lxpect to Operate New Road Before End of Year. Two Hour r Schedule to be Maintained. That tho long talKcd of electric railway between Logan and Ogden Is crystallzlng Into definite form and that tho citizens of this valley can Bpcak with some assurance that such accomodations for Cache aro forth coming In the near future, Is .evidenced from tho following dispatch dis-patch from Ogden under date lino of Feb. 25: Tho electric road between Ogden and Logan Is to bo built and work Is to bo started this summer according accord-ing to Information made public by tho Ogden Ilapld Transit company today. Tho campaign of extension was decided on at a prlvato meeting of tho stockholders of tho company yesterday afternoon, but could not b0 verified until today, when Sup:. P. D. Kline confirmed tho statement that the company had ordered tho work to bo started. Just which route tho now lino will take has not been definitely decided. de-cided. Threo surveys havo been made between this city nnd Logan, I hut the routo will not bo designated until the officials can go over tho ground, which will bo as soon as the weather will permit. Tho extension probably will take the courso through Ogden canyon to Huntsvillo, Eden and on over tho divide di-vide Into 'Cacho valley. The routo through tho canyon offers an easy grado and would traverse a rich section sec-tion in tho southern part of Cacho valley. Tho distance over this routo is about forty-flvo miles, much less k ! than tho other two lines under con-y con-y "jjltjlsiileratlon. That this Is tho likely routo Is on account of tho fnct that work has already begun on tho extension ex-tension from tho Hermltago In Ogden Og-den canyon to Huntsvllle. The other two routes lead from Brigbam City, one through Mantua, over Wellsvlllo summit and tho oth- Ier through Hear River canyon, parallel paral-lel to tho Oregon Short Lino as far as Cacho Junction. Tho former would bo 48 miles and tho latter 64 miles. Tho routo through Dear River canyon would be tho most difficult and the longest of the three, but would include a number, of Important towns and cross Dear River "valley, which would add greatly to tho possibility pos-sibility of traffic. It is said the officials offi-cials are favorable to tho Dear River route, as they consider the valley aectlon would be a good country to tap. Tho route will be definitely determined deter-mined In a short time and tho contracts con-tracts let. For some time Engineer Joseph West has been busy making maps of tho threo routes which will bo completed this week. It is the Intention ot tho officials to operate cars between tho two cities cit-ies on a two-hour schodulo." Whichever routo Is selected an exceedingly ex-ceedingly rich territory, well populated, popu-lated, will bo opened to suburban electric servlco by tho completion of tho road ag Indicated. And ns tno surveyors aro under orders to hasten their work, construction may bo expected ex-pected to bo pushed forwnrd as soon ns tho season Is sulllclently settled |