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Show SIMMS BREAK THROUGH 1 TRE IfflBRAH After being blockaded nearly a month by hard-packed snowdrifts, the Victor, Idaho, branch of the Oregon Short Line railroad was placed in service ser-vice this morning, a message to that effect being received at the Union Pacific Pa-cific system traffic office in Ogden. This branch running from Victor to Ashton, was put out of commission by snow and wind several times last winter win-ter and in the last big effort to clear the tracks, rotary plows and all manner man-ner of small snow fighting implements were utilized by large crews of men. The release of the Victor branch from the clutches of winter will bo good news to local shippers and traveling trav-eling men as its condition has been the subject of many inquiries of lato. |