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Show FOR THE FIRST TIME. For the first time since tho Central raclflc was completed in 1869, passenger pas-senger trains west-bound will be dl-vertca dl-vertca at Ogden and started for California Cali-fornia via Salt Lake City. ' Union Pacific trains arriving this afternoon, instead of proceeding over the Southern Pacific, will he switched to the Oregon Short Line and transferred trans-ferred at Salt Lake to the San Pedro road, on the first leg of a triangle which will carry tho passengers to Mojave, In Southern California, from whence they will proceed north to San Francisco, a total distance of about 1,500 miles, or half across tho continent. Tho railroad bridges over the big rivers In the neighborhood of Sacramento Sacra-mento have been washed out, and tho tracks through the snow sheds and nlons the Truckeo liver are swept by streams of water from tho rain and the rapidly melting snows, making mak-ing a great part of tho Southern Pacific Pa-cific a storm disturbed railroad. Years ago, when the winter snows or the spring rains blocked the road across the Sierras or over the lowlands. low-lands. tralnB were held for days, waiting wait-ing the raising" of the blockade. Occasionally Oc-casionally a snowshed was destroyed, closing the line to traffic. Then there was no alternative passengers were forced to trust to Providence or man's ability to lift the blockade. Now tho San Pedro offers escape and, while It affords a circuitous route through a barren waste, the longer Journey is welcomed by those .who are eager to reach their destination. |