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Show Go Over R. R. Line Before Making Bids Representatives of the Smith & Sons company of Portland, Oregon, in-; ispected portions of the Union Pacific 1 I truck between Ogden and Evanston yesterday before submitting bids fori the work of double tracking a portion of the Union Pacific railroad, an-1 nounced railroad officers ' yesterday. I The Smith & Sons company is a well; known contracting company on the , west coast. It was reported that the laying of road bed. preparatory to starting the, laying of double track, had already started between Ogden and Evanston.' Further construction 3s anticinted within the next few days, it Is stated,' when bids from various western contractors con-tractors have been opened and compared. com-pared. No information regarding the approximate ap-proximate amount of money which will be spent in installing the-new set of trackage has been announced and will not be given out until after contracts for the work have been let, ii was today to-day slated. |