Show iff ivf SEVEN MILES THROUGH THE SAND RIDGE K when complied cut will Bs forty feet deep four sand trains moving from saturdays standard looking ast from lower thirtieth what appears to be a huge canal seven alles mlles langy feet wide and 20 feet deep es the eye this is tho cutoff cut off over ridge as it Is today whan it will be 40 feet deep and will ba the largest railroad cut that has been made la the vicinity of for years hundreds of tons of sand are baing moved every day by two steam shovels and four sand rains they have already dug their v ay through the mounds of sand one and are now going back the shovels followed by scrapers will cover the course in all three times before abe cut is ready to receive rails the track hen laid will make a straight line from the 0 S L tracks near the southend sout hend of the old track until it reaches west of thirtieth where it will curve to the north meeting the iu P track near twenty eighth street A wye will run from this side of the river south to the U P tracks this will be a great advantage to through trains no stops or lowering ot speed will occur when a through train arrives in the local yards A steel bridge similar to the one now used by the 0 S L ovar the weber will be constructed as soon as necessary this will make the fourth railroad bridge that crosses that stream within a few miles of each other no serious difficulty has yet been en countered and no great obstacle will have to bo overcome as main problem Is to remove the sandwich ich Is an easy task for a machine that Is capable of digging its way through nearly solid rock |