Show OPENING OF WESTERN PACIFIC TO SHAFTER the opening of ehte western pacific railroad between shatter shafter and wells nov will occur within tho next two or three days and the opening will verv vcr likely prove to be a gala day at the two tw ends of the division the distance between the two places is 44 miles and is considered a very cry important division of tile the new road S V derrah who has in hand the arrangement of traffic affairs of this particular part of the road together with ills his corps of clerks is working assiduously preparing tariffs for uso use on the extended line the roadbed has been completed and the rails laid between the two points and some few of coal have passed over it but regular traffic ha has not yet been instituted over the lines line Lvery everything thing Is in readiness for the event and according to mr derrah will take place in a very short time this will give the western pacific a completed line itne west of salt lake a distance of miles the first division of miles between salt lake and shatter shafter having been placed in operation on november Xo vember 9 two hundred and twenty four miles of tho the western end of tho the road out of oakland cal is now under operation leaving considerably sider ably less than halt half of the length of the road yet to be connected up in gaps under construction in nevada and california |