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Show FORMAL OPENING TO TRAFFIC ON ENTERURBAN WILL BE DECEMBER 10 f Manager P. D. Kline Says Cars Will be Operated From Lewiston to Wells- i " ville on That Date. f LINE EQUIPT WITH BEST MAKE OF CARS Thirty-five Miles of Trackage. Announcement Announce-ment of Points Where Cars Will Stop. ' Public Asked to Use Caution 1 .in Crossing Tracks. ! Coming as ono of tho most Important Import-ant and significant announcements .... Mtin In fnmmnrplal and Indus- Lf' trial circles throughout Caclio Valley, I Is tlio news that on Thursday, Do- 3 ctraber 10, the now lnterurban eloc- trie lines from LowTston, to Wclls-lllc, Wclls-lllc, Utah, constructed by the Og-den, Og-den, Logan, and Idaho Ilallway Company, Com-pany, will bo formally opened and traffic Inaugurated from Lowlston to, Wcllsvllle on that date In point of popular Interest, and, from tho standpoint of money invested invest-ed and the benefits that will Immediately Imme-diately accrue to a very largo soc tlon of Cacho Valley, no news will vo been received hero In many years with more popular approval than tho Jntcrurban railway com - rani's definite announcement of tho i date for beginning actlvo traffc opor- atlons of tho now lino, tho Anal construction con-struction details of which aro being rushed to completion. Tho now road Is by far tho most i. .... nminrt rnnnummatod In this section of Utah for years. Beginning Be-ginning at Lowlston on tho north tho fallowing towns will be connected up by tho now lnterurban: Lowlston, Iglgh Creek; Covovillo, Richmond, ftnlthfiold, Hyde Park, North Logan or Greenville, Logan, Providence, Mlllvllle, Hyrum and Wollsvllle. The length of the lnterurban from Uewla'ton to WelUTlUOj-U thirty-five miles. Three ot the, flnoat and latest iftetrlc lnterurban car possible to ttajftre, hava been ordered by the company, and will arrive In time to be placed la operation December 10 the date or the formal opealng of the line. These cars are being .manufactured bji tho American Car Compaay of St. Louis. Size of New Cara Thoy aro all steel three compartment compart-ment cars. Ono compartment Is for ladles; there is a smoking compartment compart-ment and a baggago compartment. Kach car scats seventy-six passengers. passeng-ers. They are sixty-two foot In fcngth over all; and aro equipped " with four ono hundred and ten horao power motors, supplying sufficient traction power to haul two trailers bftlrlna fhfl on Itaatf- Tho cars will run atralght through on tho now lnterurban from Lowlston to Wollsvllle, and from Wollsvillo to Lowlston. A two hours sorvlco will be Inaugurated and maintained. Tho first car will loavo. Lowlston and Wcllsvllle at 7:30 In tho morning. A car will leavo each of thoao pointy every two hours thereafter, throughout through-out tho day and evening, until 10 o'clock at night. On the two hours hqdulo, thq last car would leave Jf Vellsvllle and Lewiston at 9:30 each t evening. Ths 9:30 car. howovor, M be held'nntll '10 o'clock at both lewiston and WellBvllIo. All cars lll meet at Greenville. U will require re-quire ono hour and flftoon minutes for cars leaving Lowlston and Wollsvillo Wolls-villo to roach tho oppoelto end of tho line, and upon arrival at Lowlston and Wollsvillo, tho cars will wait forty-flvo mlnutos boforo beginning tho return trips. Where Cars 8top On and after December 10, tho lnterurban ln-terurban cars will stop at, take on nnd lot off passengers at tho follow- lng points only: Lewiston, High Creole, Cocville, Klchmond Smith-Held. Smith-Held. Hyde Park, North Logan, or Greenville, Logan, Providence, Mill-vlllo, Mill-vlllo, Hrum and Wollsvllle. No other stops will bo made with tho exception of Sixth East street In Logan, where cars will stop to accommodate accom-modate students of tho Agricultural College. While it Is truo that tho lnterurban cars that have been operating oper-ating between Smithfleld and Logan, and Logan and Providence, have made stops at various points, other than those included in tho list named above, tho officials of tho company explain that on and aftor Decomber 10, tho cars will stop only at thoso points named In tho list abovo, ho-causo ho-causo of tho necessity of maintaining a "regularschedule between Lowlston and Wollsvillo. It Is pointed out by tho offlclals of tho company tnat In ordor to best serve tho general pub lie and maintain a schedulo of ado-quato ado-quato tlmo botween Lowlston and Wcllsvllle, stops must bo made at thoso points which will best servo tho most people. "Wo wnnt to ask farmers and others oth-ers living along tho lino of tho lnterurban lnter-urban to bo very careful to see that gates to private farm crossings aro kopt closed, In order that there may be no accidents to live stock after we Inaugurate operations," said P. D, Kllno, geaeral managor o the company, yesterday In dlsousslnj the vforth coning opening o the tntorur-"ban. tntorur-"ban. I "We will make a little more speed of course, than has been the case to date and people ilving along tho route and who will have occasion w cross tho tracks, should ie very caroiui iu exerclso every caution, and look in both directions before crossing. If this caution is observed, and tho Uvo stack Is properly cared for wo .hall have no accidents. I can assure you that every cmployeo of tho company, has received tho fltrongest "safety first" Instructions that wo can Issue. Motormen and conductors on tho now cara will exerclso tho greatest possible possi-ble care, and nothing has been left undono to Insure tho safety of passengers pas-sengers and tho general public. Tho ontlro right of way of our lnterurban Ib, fenced off with hog fencing ot wu latest design, and wo havo loft noth-lng noth-lng undono that can contrlbuto in any way to tho safe operation of our lino. "Wo wnnt the cooperation of tho .public along thoso linos and will raako every effort to secure It," All construction work along tho lino is completed from Wollsvllle' to High Creek. The remaining, stretch from High Creek Into Lowlston ' W being rushed with all posslblo speed and will he ready for tho formal opening open-ing on December 10. Thoro Is no lnterurban electric lino botween Chicago and tho Pacific coast better constructed than tho lino ot tho Ogden, Logan and Idaho Hallway Company. At Lowlston tho company Is completing com-pleting a fino five thousand dollar freight and passengor dopot on Main stroot. It Ib nn unusually handsoma structure and Is of permanent construction. con-struction. I ( Continued on pago eight) fhe Thanksgiving Bird r . 1 I i mi . ? The United States Will Declare War on "Turkey" Today j FORMAL OPENING TO TRAFFIC OF INTERURBAN 1 WILL BE DECEMBER 10 HJ ' v Continued from pago ono. HJ I I Ono or 'Uiu biggest construction HJ if J projects on tho entire lino Is now HJ ji lieu lug coniplotlou ut Morrill's Spur Hjj j or Illgli Creek, ns it la sometimes HI j known. II An tiudergrado crossing of the O. S. I.. lr;iCl;s in being accomplished liero, together with nn undergrade crossing ot tho county highway. The clinnnol ot High Creek Is being deepened, deep-ened, to servo as u road bod for tho intcrurban, and tho tracks of the Oregon Short Line, to a dlstnnco of ,' throo quarters of a mllo nro being i mltftMl flvo feet and six inches. A j henvy steel bridge with a twenty ono HI' foot span, Is being erected nt this, HI! point, and the company Is building HI a now highway brldgo also Tlicro H will be a twenty-throu foot clenranco from tho ties of tho O. S. L. brldgo if fo tho top of tho Intorurban cars I that will crojs underneath tho bildgo. Fix County Road l 1 Tho Ogdeu, i m;an and Idaho Itnlli lllf ( way Company In doing nil of this III' work mid In addition has fixed tho ill ) (.'ounty ro id In splendid sluipo, nt IIIm tho polu whurii It branches to Low- llfi j iHtnii from tho main Stato road The Hi j guiding of tho intcrurban from Lew I . iston tn High Croek Is 90 per cent III it comploto-1, tho polos havo all boon 111 j net into Lowlhton, nnd track laying III will bo woll under way beforo tho Ioloso of tho present week. Somo Idea of tho slro of oiteratlous at Merrill" Spur that may bo gained from the fnrt that a big steam shovel Is at , woik tlieeo together with threo work if trains, and a groat camp of work I wen. jjj Tho work at Merrill's Spur In cost-' il jj ing tho company over forty thousand I j' dollars. Hi. Threo miles south ot Lowlston nnd II Ij Immediately south of tho Lewlston flj Sugar Factory tlio company Is erect 1 1 ing a seventy six foot steel brldgo ncp-RS Cub rivor. Tlio brldgo Is of IL double docked truss construction j! iiitli concrete- almtments. At Hlchmoud with Its 1800 pcoplo, rijj if tho company has practically complet- IiIk I d n four thousand dollar depot of. I j brick construction, containing living lift quarters for tho operator and lijs ll'l I family, a freight depot and passenger, if station. i ( II H At Smlthfleld thn company has built II U n nrgo olectrlcat nub station and tlio II I Minn building contains tho freight HJ Hi iloptit and pa.inongor station. H The building at Smlthflold ropro- BF j frnU an Investment of sovonty-flvo H "' hundred dollirs and tho electrical I, equipment installed In tho substation cost twenty eight thousand dollars. Il This equipment consists of trnnsfor- jj mors, lightening arresters, oil switch es, switch boird, nnd a twenty ton 1 motor genorator sot. j The ptitlro interurban lino which i lins been in operntlon from Logan to Smlthflcld, has been reconstructed, tho track rohallastod, tho overhead reconstructed and a now feeder wlro instniled of proper size, to supply tho f ' necossary energy for tho operation, of i tho larger and Increased number of . intorurban cars. i Somo ot tho heaviest work dono by I (1 the company consists i f the rocon-H rocon-H t structlon of all ot its trackage In H fj .tho city ot Logan, paving botwoen H H tho trncks, and tho reconstruction of H M Hh overhead equipment in Logan. H I Polos In tho paved district havo !- ; boon removed from tho center of tho sHU i S? I stroot to tho sides and arrangments-I arrangments-I havo been, completed for Improved freight nnd passenger facilities on Main streot. Tho company's cars whloh have been In oporatlon In Logan, nro to bo equipped i I tli now motors, and tlio cars themselves thoroughly overhauled over-hauled and fixed up. Between Logan nnd Providence Uio company has constructed a seventy-four seventy-four foot steel span bridgo across Logan river. Providence Is tho terminal ter-minal ot tho line that has to dato been operated from Logan to Providence, Provi-dence, nnd this two miles of system has been entirely reconstructed. Millvlllo is the first station .-.oulh of Providence, and tho company's station in Millvlllo will be located 'n the prlncipa store in that town. Tho next station south Is Hyrum, nnd between be-tween Millvlllo and Hyrum tho company com-pany makes nnothor undergrade crossing, and a steel brldgo lias been constructed by tho company at this point ncross Blacksmith Fork river with n ninety foot span. A now highway high-way brldgo hns also been constiuct-cd. constiuct-cd. At Hyrum, a new brick station containing con-taining living rooms for tho onor.it or the freight dopot and passenger sla tlon lias been erected. South of Hyrum Hy-rum tho company crosses Muddy river riv-er with its trncks over a new steel bridgo with n sixty four span. Wollsvillo is tho next station &oul'i and tho present terminal of 'tho lino. Thoro Is ft Croat deal of heavy construction con-struction work betvyVsen Hyrum md Wcllsvllle in tho form ot outs and fllig. No now station Is being on ot-cd ot-cd at Wcllsvlllo this year, Inasmuch as tho permanent terminal of the interurban in-terurban at Wollsville will be several sever-al blocks from tho present end otthe lino. Tho company will havo Us rs-sensor rs-sensor dopot In tho Wollsvillo T)rug Company's store for tho present. Tho directors of tho Ogden, Logan and Idaho Hallway Company havo invested in-vested nn enormous sum to mako tho now lino ono ot tho finest Intsrur-bans Intsrur-bans In tho county. A live, proroa-slvo proroa-slvo business Retting policy is o ho pursued, and that portion ot Oacho Vulloy contingent to tho lino Is nl-ready nl-ready boglnnlng to feel tho bonsllclal offocts ot tho up to dato construction ot tho road. Decombor 10, tho dato of tho form nl opening of tho lino, will undribt-fdly undribt-fdly bo mado a special occasion in all of tho towns through which tho Interurban passes, togothor with tho country sldo Immedlato adjacent. |