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Show WORK STARTS ON EXTENSION OF ELECTRIC EINE TO LOGAN Construction Company Sending Teams and Outfits to Brig-ham Brig-ham City and Wellsville to Begin Grading the 36-Mile Gap in the Railway From Ogden to Cache Valley. After a trip over the proposed Brigham-Wellsville extension of the Ogden, Logan & Idaho Railway company's com-pany's Interurban line out of Ogden yesterday afternoon, by Manager P. D. Kline of the railroad company and Manager W. H. Wattis of the Utah Construction company, orders were is-j sued for the immediate building of the road and construction work will bepin as early as teams and men can be assembled. Superintendent W. L. Wattis has gone to Nevada today to order horses from the construction company's ranch to the new lino and the teams will arrive at Brigham City in the course of a few days. Mr. Wattis states that work will be prosecuted from both the Brigham City and the Wellsville end and that a little later another camp will he established midway of the two cities. He will make no predictions as to when the work will be completed, but can see no reason why it cannot be done before the end of the year. Tho construction company will place as aro n force of men and teams on the job as possible, with a view to losing no time on the work There are thirty-six miles of road to build, but Mr. Wattis states that there are no heavy grades or cuts along the line. The road will extend from Bris ham Cltv parallel to the Oregon Short Line to t'ollinston, whore it will swim j raBtward, passing over the divide !o , W-ollo.-lllr. Thlc rllviWn is eiiri In furnish the best prade cuer the moiin tains between Cache Valley and the ( ollinston district the transportation lines entering this territory were working for the upbuilding up-building of the Intermountain country coun-try and, while the canners had uot yet received all of the concessions asked for in certain districts, tho failure fail-ure had been balanced by concessions in others. The new tariffs are now being prepared pre-pared by the traffic department of the Union Pacific system and will prob-ahly prob-ahly become effective by May 15. Secretary' Herrington said the railroad rail-road officials as a whole are interested interest-ed in the upbuilding of this part of the country, and Mr. Winehell is desirous de-sirous of coming to Ogden for a two or three days' visit, some time within the next sixty days, to confer with tho canners and to make a thorough investigation as to their desires and needs with regard to transportation rates into new territory. Ho received receiv-ed a letter to this effect from the Union Pacific official yesterday and, in speaking of It. sa-id that the canners can-ners would recene him as their guest and would see to it that ' Ogden is put firmly on the map with the transportation trans-portation department of the Harrinian lines." While in the northwest the Ogden man had a long interview with several of the prominent freight traffic offl clals of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Navi-gation company in which the opinion was expressed that the railroads west 3f the Missouri river were beginning to nae a strong oener mat tne rum; I of their revenue in the future was to come from the intermountain counlrv and for this reason their efforts would he to help build up the local Indus-tries Indus-tries by affording them competitive transportation rates to new markets When asked what tbe probable ex tent of the 1916 pack of the Utah canners, Mr Herrington said that it would he somewhat smaller than last jrear owing wholly to the condition of the markets The canners, he continued, con-tinued, would not realize much profit from goods shipped to the new markets, mar-kets, hut that it would relieve tho present market situation by taking the surplus stock. oo |