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Show M FASTER THAN A MILE A MINUTE. B: . H Large gangs of railroad laborers, with tho aid of steam shovels, H nre working day and night on the double tracking of the Oregon H Short Line between Ogden and Salt Lake. H ' This new lino is being rushed to completion under instructions H from tho high officials of the road. "When it is completed, this part H of Utah1 is to enjoy a railroad service of tho very best and a timo. H , table for gasoline motor cars is to be .put in effect which, in tho H , speed that will be required, will eclipse anything in the United Hl States. The run from Ogden to Salt Lake, which is now being mado H in 45 minutes, will bo further reduced to 30 minutes. M A representative of this paper questioned that statcmont, made H! by a prominent railroad official, who said that, with the Ogden yards Hj remodeled so that trains could run into and out of tho local sta- H tion at high speed, the 37 miles from Ogden to Salt Lake could bo H mado at a speed greater than a milo a minute. H There will be an interesting rivalry for the intcrurban business Hj when the Oregon Short Line fully carries out its present plans to re- H gain the ground lost within tho last year. |