Show WESTE WESTERN PACIFIC NEARING I COMPLETION Eighty cars or of steel rails ralls each car averaging S pounds of oC steel are arriving In the tho local yards and being transferred to the Southern Pacific for Cor delivers at and other oilier points west of there thore whore gaps still remain In the Gould line This Is i perhaps the tho last shipment of steel prior to the opening or of the tho new road Then Whon completed the tho West era oro Pacific will provide a coast out outlet outlet let for the Denver Demel Rio Grande Grando and andopen open to the Gou Gould d roads a through line for Cor transcontinental service Had tilL the road been constructed fifteen fifteen teen years oars earlier It might have ser serIously reduced traffic over oer the tho Central Pacific and made or of the Ogden gate wa vay a less important point In rail rall transportation but Its completion this winter and its active operation will have havo no perceptible effect on the vol volume ume of business carried carded by br the HarrI HarrIman man lines through Ogden Within a fow ow years ealS tr if Harriman the Sierra Siena Nevadas will be tun tunneled above e Truckee Whon the tho dl di vide Ido between Nevada and California Is pierced there thero will bo be no transcontinental route to compare comparo with thIs the central one The rho Western Pacific has hasa n a low gradient hut but Is man many miles long longer er than the Central Pacific measurIng from to Oakland and Ogden to the Da Bay With the tho placing In ser service service vice of the tho Sierra Nevada Novada tunnel the tho Central Pacific will be both lower In grade and shorter In distance than thai the Iho Pacific and as a natural ye suIt sull the Harriman road will continue to do most of oC the tho business In get sel and freight Were ore the tho Western estern Pacific a moro more route It would be years he fore foro the tho Gould line IIno could dIvert any great purl part of oC the transportation bus bUBo of California as the Golden state is a web of Harriman branch lines serving as to the tho main lines The Pacific must build u UI its by the country through which It passes and that It will do for tor all larGe railroads are arc de anti and the Western Pacific win I bo no exception to the tho rule |