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Show oo - CONSTRUCTION WORK ON INTERURBAN LINE Salt lake, Aug. 14 S. S. Arenlz chief engineer for the Salt lke & Utah Railway c,,mpany. the "Orem road." made the definite announce-men' announce-men' yesterday that, unless unforeseen unfore-seen happenings Interfered, trains would be running over the lines of the company between Salt Lake and Provo before the first of the year. If such a fact is accomplished, the building of the Orem road from Salt Lake to the Utah county sest will go down in rallwnv annals as one of the most remarkable pieces of engineering engi-neering In the United States. With less than three months of construction construc-tion work past, the engineers bfl a thus far established a record for rapid and thorough interurban building. build-ing. It was not until last October that the railway project was financed and the work of making preliminarv Bur veys began Contours were taken, topographv worked out and the 11,.. adjusted for grades lad curvature within hardly more than a months time Then the awarding of contracts con-tracts the ordering of material and the gathering of workmen began. De-ayed De-ayed by iJie wlntn weather, actual construction work did not begin until In June. Since that time more thn 500 men have been kept at work on the road, laying more than twentj miles of track in Salt Lake alone, and the working south from Salt Lake, north from Provo and within the city limits of Lehl. |