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Show ONE HMD i IN EMPLOYED 1 -toA! Boise, Ida.. Jif.j 20. What Is con- ,!ijUJ sidered one of tho most difTIcult feats itg of railroad engineering ever attempt- jMj ed in Idaho is now being started along ! gfo tho fiftv-mile extenclon of the Idaho y Northern railroad In tho western part f m . . H..M..I.. In T nnrr U.I 1. f. Wi Ot tUlS State, puruuuiuiij u -""& -- , - ley the section through which the f jg road will ruu There are 1.000 meu employed in thu various camps that Jj cjg have been established along the right ) of wav and they will he actively en- t jj gaged" in railroad building until snow G flies next winter. Iffi The contract for building the grade y - for the extension was let to the Utan 6 ,3 Construction company, but tho work f M is said to have been sublet to sucn : W an extent that the firm will no nono . :H of the actual construction itself, un- .! .ft less It be two or three stretches con- ',. (J sidered the most difticult and impor- m tant.' fc g From Emraett to Smith prairie I camps have been installed along tho f ft extension and within the present I jg month many more will be added to I the pay roll and take up positions In tJn the upper portion of Long valley, working towards Rosehury and tho f, Payette lakes, the destination of the f y new line. Machinery is being install- i Q cd along the road, Including sevoral : I of the most powerful steam shovels '. used in the handling of a great amount ' I of dirt. ffi The contractors now on the lino aro .; 'J the Wasatch comnaii , the Buck-He- ( & lean firm. Banks Bros., H P. Marslng ; j of Nampa, J. W. Monarch, Charles r I RIberg, N. Hamilton, L. R Wattis - . H company, W. W. Brown, Deal Bros. I & Mendenhall, W. J. Sweeney and S. Y J. SJolquist. Practically all, of these contractors have been connected with ; the Utah Construction on former J works. : In view of tho fact that tho con- j tract work will probabl last for the ? next six months or until snow blocks It and will be continued again in tho eurly spring the construction company ; has established a commissary depart- j ment, a medical department, hospital, h general stores and camp, division and fe general headquarters. Tho comniis- ft 1 sary department is in chnrgo of C L. I' fa Underwood of Ogden and with his 1 f force he Is busily engaged in arrang- 1 S lng for the care of the arm yof wo-k- I men reporting daily and sent forward i to the camps. W. L Wattis is resl- i dent manager with headquarters at i Nampa. 'the extension of the Idaho North- ;;l orn will be built out of the town of & Emmett, near the Idaho-Oregon line, i;i east as far as Horseshoe Bend, be- i i lioved to be one of the most impor- i tont power sites of this state when r 'w the racing waters of the Pactto riv- 1, er are harnessed. Between theso two towps the right of way of the exten- 1 sion hugs the river banks At Horse- m shoe Bend the line crosses tho river K and follows north along the west side S to Smith Ferry and Into Long valley W to Rosebury. where It turns west to m tho Payette lakes. |