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Show CANYON LINE WILL BE HALTED FAILURE TO RECEIVE TIES HOLD-ING HOLD-ING BACK WORK. Six Sidetracks to be Constructed Between Be-tween the Mouth of the Canyon and The Hermitage. Contrary to expectations, the Hunts-vllie Hunts-vllie road up Ogden canyon will not bo completed to The Hermitage in tim; for July Fourth celebrations. The' Ogden Rapid Transit company has been experiencing considerable difficulty diffi-culty of late In securing ties in sufficient suffi-cient quantity to continue acthe operations. op-erations. At the present time work on the upper end of the extension has had to be discontinued on this account. Until the arrival of a new shipment of ties, the force of laborers will bo engaged on the first siding and that portion of the track lying between the first bridge and the present terminus of the line, through what is known as the cut at the mouth of the canyon. can-yon. 11 Track ha? now been laid as far as the first lime kiln.A . There will be six sidings in all be- I tween the present terminus and Tlie Hermitage. The first will be located at the mouth of the canyon. The hoc--ond will be at the rock quarry Just beyond t'.ie second bridge, the next at Wilson's saw mill, another at the lime kiln, the fifth just beyond the Lewis resort and the sixth immediately above the Log Cabin bar at The Hermitage. The grade around the big sMde on tho Lewis property has been completed complet-ed and the lower retaining wall also finished. The upper wall will not be constructed for the present owing to the possibility of a portion of the slido being removed ultimately by those found to be responsible for the slide. |