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Show IRON POLES INSTEAD OF WOOD f . Today the construction gang of the Ogden Rapid Transit company is removing re-moving the wooden poles that hold the trolley wires a ttho Intersection of Washington avenue and Twenty-fifth street and replacing thorn with iron posts recently shipped from the east. The change will add much to tho appearance of the intersection and increase in-crease the stability of the wire system. sys-tem. The polls that are being installed weigh about 1,400 pounds each and extend about twenty-fivo feet above tho surfaco of the ground. The polos are being placed not less than six feet in the ground. This Improvement has been con-tcmplater con-tcmplater by tho Btreet car company for a number of months, but the iron factories have been so crowded that it was Impossible to fill the order at an earlier date. Tho officers of the company plan to displace all present trolley polea with Iron poles. |