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Show I HERE FROM THE WORK ON THE RIO GRANDE J Stanley Dee. who is in the city from the camps ot the Utah Construction Construc-tion company In Spanish Fork canyon, can-yon, slates that the yvork of double tracking the Rio Grande from Thistle to Tucker is completed. Mr Dee nays that the road has been detoured from the old route and that It now climbs the mountain to Soldier Summit on the south side of the great canyon, reducing the grade to about .' per cent. Tho distance Is Increased some, but the reduction of the gradi- ! more than compensate for that. It is' said that w ithin the next year the road will be operated from Helper near Price, to Salt Lake by electricity, the current for which will be generated generat-ed in Spanish Fork canvon and on the Price river, the power plants to be constructed in the near luture T)i. grade trom Soldjor Summit to Helper 1 1 also being reduced by placing the road at a point higher on the mountain moun-tain side near Helper |