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Show II MEN IRKING ON THE STREET CAR INTERSECTIONS This morning the big steam gravel elevator and concrete mixr of tho J. P. OlNeill company begin operations opera-tions at the gravel deposit on Hudson Hud-son avenue and as many men and teams as could be used were put to work concreting the street ":ar roadbed road-bed at the intersection of Washington Washing-ton avenue and Twenty-flfU street. The O'Neill company also has a force of men at the Intersection of Twenty-fourth street and Washington avenue and at the conjunction of Twenty-fifth street and Wall avenue preparing for the building of new steel Intersections for the Ogden Rapid Transit company. Thl stoei has been laid at tho Intersection of Twenty-fifth and Washington nd it Is said that it will be In place it the other intersections within the next week or ten days. The steel for these intersections has "been purchased at a cost of nearly near-ly $10,000 and it is said that the weight of the material placed at Twenty-fifth and Washington ia something over 120 tons. The intersection, inter-section, after being riveted together, is practically one piece of steel, so interlocked that to allow a single part of the structure to move It would be j necessary for the entire intersection I to move, which track builders and me- j chanlcs say, is almost an impossibility. , The frogs of the interlocking 72-pound 72-pound rails is lined with manganesnj wheh is like flint and it is said to j be practically indestructible by the I action of the car wheels as they make the turns. The entire new road , bed when completed, will be modern j In every detail and of the strongest construction known to street car building. Manager P. D. Kline, of the Rapid Transit company, Btatos that the concrete con-crete work and the surfacing of the intersection of Twenty-fifth and Washington will be completed within with-in the next two or three days and that after it sets for about ten day3 the cars will again be operated over tho intersection. The other Intersections will bo made as fast as It is possiblo to do so with the view to having them ready for use in the early part of April, and it is plannod to have tho Twenty-fourth street loop ready for use by the middle of April. |