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Show RAILROAD CAMPS NEAR OGDEN. With the starting of work on the double tracking of the Union Pacific from a point 2 1-2 miles out of Ogden to Gateway, 12 1-2 miles east of here, the problem of the unemployed in this city should be solved Camps have been established east and west of Uintah and one steam shovel is now on the ground and more shovels are to be placed in the canyon can-yon which begins a mile and a halt east, of that station. There will be three and one-half miles of heavy ex cavatlng in the gore, extending to Gateway. A comparatively small force will be employed until all the camps are actively ac-tively engaged So far only regular employes of the construction companies compa-nies have been needed, hut by the first of the month one hundred or more men should be laboring on the grade. Only a single track is to be bull! ahmg this survey, hut the nrw linv for eastbouud trains with the preseril track for westbound traffic will make a double road There is to be al least one tunnel and much heny rock work within the portals of the canyon, the road following fol-lowing the cliffs a considerable distance dis-tance At Uintah, the new line will pass 500 feet north oi the preaent station. This activity on the part of the Union Pacific will give employment to as many as 500 men when the work is at its height, and then theri will be little or no excuse lor idle ncss. oo |