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Show 'limit of the wet cycle. If the lake rises to the height of tliat body of water in 1876 and. a-galn in 1886, the surface -will be six feet higher than at present. In that case the embankments embank-ments must be ja.serl. The trestle is high enough to top t'.ic highest water of which there is record, but the dirt fills are but a few feet above the present pres-ent lake level. Those In charge are awaiting with some anxiety the weather conditions of f.ic summer'and winter months Last . year the lake fell , only eight Inches during the warmest period or the year. ' With a drop in the lake level of only eight- Inchcft this sum-, mer, the engineers can look forward to a season of much activity in reconstruction re-construction in . 1910. The entire stretch of built-up track will have to be raised several feet But notwlthstandlng'all this expense of keeping out of tho clutches of the storms on the lake, -the- Ogden-Lucin cut-off has proved to bo the most profitable profit-able and serviceable cut-off of the many which E, H, . Harriman authorized author-ized after ho obtained control of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific roads. i LAKE MAY RISE SIX FEET PRECAUTIONARY WORK A pllo-d riving crew is now at the slto selected for the test piece of breakwater which is to be constructed construct-ed on the north side of the Oiden-Lucin Oiden-Lucin cut-off where tho waves have been doing greatest damage lo the embankment of the railroad. Engineers elaim riie work trains, in rip-rapping, are gradually gaining a mastery over the lake, hut this breakwater break-water will provo a floublo security. Last Saturday a heavy windstorm lashed tho lako Into anger and the waves once more tore a large hole in the dirt filling which was placed there by the constructors under Marsh. Into this hole will be dropped big boulders, thore to remain undisturbed, however how-ever stormy be the lake, as has all the permanent rip-rapping. There ia one problem yet to he solv- 1 ed- The engineers do not know tho |