Show sand cutoff cut off grading will not be completed before christmas from fridays standard the utah construction company Is slowly cutting doan the grade on the sand ridge preparatory to the lading of track by the oregon line the company sow have one sloam shovel and three gravel trains hauling the dirt from the cut to the west end of the work the largest cut to be graded Is 67 feet deep 40 feet of which has been accomplished leaving 17 feet still to be excavated at the cast end two teams with about 25 huiea are kept busy on the light work the company has several of the narrow gauge donkey engines which are used to ha il the lump cars from the out 0 o the point the utah construction st company expects to main t aln yards or the distributing 0 live atouk to all points here contracts are in foice by the above company jt lias been found necessary to build a spur track from the main line track to the male line ci ibo union pacific and in order 0 o ac compiA this several houses on the south ake of thirtieth street at which point the spur Is to bo laid have been removed the vork of grading as near as can be estimated should be finished by christmas and it will take but a short time for the oregon short line to lay their track as the only hard piece of work is the building of a bridge over the weber river which will be of concrete and iron stringers such as are now standard on the oregon short line |