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Show uu SALT LAKE ROUTE B0ILDI1 3RICK Delta, Aug. 16. A special train of three cars arrived here yesterday, preceded by a large construction gang, which began work this morning la;, ing steel on the new branch ol the Salt Lake Route out of this place to Sugarville, a distance of about fifteen fif-teen miles to the northwest. The special carried a large number of tho officials of the road and came from the south, where they had been on an Inspection tour. In the party wore General Manager Calvin of the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line and the following Salt Lake Route officials: J. Ross Clark, vice president, F. A. Waun, general traffic manager, II. E. Van Housen, superintendent, Chief Engineer Mc-Guirc Mc-Guirc and a number of others. After a tour of Inspection over the new grade and farming country through which it extends tho officials took their train for the north, expressing express-ing themselves as highly pleased -with the prospects of the new lino and the country it traverses. The large construction crew which began laying steel this morning expected ex-pected to complete the work within thirty days, to the end of tho present grade. It is generally conceded that this branch is to eventually furnish an outlet for a large territory to tho west by extending to the Deep Creek country coun-try and tapping the Drum and Fish Springs mining ' districts en route The supposition is borne out by the fact that heavy, new steel is being laid on the branch. These districts are rich in farming and stock-raising and the mining districts are highly mineralized and only await the coming com-ing of transportation to make them big producers. |