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Show i xj - . ' - Ji- ti aksp 8 SCENE FROM "THE CLIMAX," OGDEN THEATER, SATURDAY K AND SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18th AND 19th. I WILL BUILD I TRACK TO I THELAKE Hl Tho Railway & Engineering News B "The Oregon Short. Une railroad's M offices at Salt Lake -City, Utah, have H recelvod Instructions from New York H to proparo for such extension as can H be made during tho current year Ac- H cording to estimates made by William H Ashton, chief engineer, the company H -will be able to build this year a sec- H ond track between Farmington and H Ogden, 20 miles, 13 miles of second H track west of Ogdeii ou the Southern H Pacific, 13 miles of aecond track west H of Focatello, and IS miles at Montpel- H Jer. It will require some time to ac- H quire new right of way between Farm- H lngton and. Ogden, as for six miles Hj or more tho road must be relocated to H eecuro a more dcsirnblo gradient in H the vicinity of Layton; and the relo- H cation lies in some places through val- H uable cultivated land. The building of H the proposed Salt Lake cut-off from H Weber canyon to Farmington will not H be undertaken until tho second Union H Pacific track is built between Wa- H Batch and Uintah, by "which time It H is estimated that tho Southern Call- H for n la traffic will have attained such Hj proportions as to justify this con- H stiuctlon, Two passenger and three H freight trains each way daily is set Hj as the amount of traffic which will H justify the move." |