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Show I A RAILROAD TO HELP DEVELOP OGDEN Farmers in the Strevell district of Idaho, which is just over Utah's northern north-ern border, north of Kelton, state that' I the thirty-one miles of grade, which j extends from the end of the railroad south from Burloy, is being kept up. culverts having been placed the past summer to preserve the grade from water action. Engineers connected with the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line have stated that eventually even-tually steel is to be laid on this thirty-one miles and the road extended to Monument on the old Southern Pacific line and from there to Saline, on Promotory Point. The statement has been made that the road would have been constructed this year, if the price of steel and the high cost of labor were not prohibitive. prohibi-tive. The building of a line from Saline to Burley would -cut off ninety miles of travel from Ogden to the heart of j the agricultural region of Idaho and i be of vast benefit to this city. When this cut-off is built, Ogden I will become the grain-storing center ol all that empire of, wheat which stretches along the Snake valley. The completing of the big elevators now under construction by the Globe Milling Mill-ing & Grain company Is the beginning begin-ning of this development, which is to give to Ogden a nation-wide name as I a flour-producing city. |