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Show "BELT LINE JD BE BUILT 1 IDAHO Work upon tho building of the up per Snake river valley belt line through Fremont and Madison counties, coun-ties, Idaho, wilt be begun as soon as the snows melt and the seventy-four miles of trackage will bo completed ,in the fall. This Is the line which the Oregon Short Line is to build to Idaho Falls, along the cast side of the Snake river and will cross this Yellowstone line of the Short Line v. few miles from St. Anthony. The line will connect with the Lincoln spur and go on to the sugar beet factory. It Is the Intention eventually to build the1 line clear around the upper Snake valley and touch the main line at Blackfoot The new line, will cost about $2,000,000 and pass through one of tho -richest agricultural sections of I eastern Idaho. E. E. Calvin, general manager of the Oregon Short LIrie, returned from his inspection trip over tho Idaho lines yesterday and announced thai the building would begin as soon as the weather would pormlL The line was around the upper Snake river valley and was ordered constructed by R. S. Lovett, It Is not included in the 1914 budget of the Oregon Short Line, as It Is classed as special work and the $2,000,000 will not come out of tho $4,000,000 which tho executive execu-tive committee of the Union Pacific system has provided for hettermentu on the Oregon Short Line 'during 1914. "From the reports which I received," receiv-ed," said Mr. Calvin, "I believe that Idaho is to havo another bumper crop and we are prepared to inovo It with dispatch. This Is the first opportunity op-portunity I have had to go over tho; Ifne since assuming my present position posi-tion and no railroad can be In better shape than the Oregon Short Line." Mr. Calvin was accompanied on his trip hy E. C. Manson, general superintendent: super-intendent: D. E. Burley, general passenger pas-senger agent, and D. R. Gray, assistant assist-ant general freight agent Luncheons and banquets were given in honor of the railroad men at Boise and other points which 'they visited. |