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Show ON THE BAMBERGER. Early this morning electrical engineers engi-neers and others were at tho corner ot Twenty-flfth street and Lincoln avenue, ave-nue, marking the places along Lincoln avenue where poles are to be placed from which to suspend the trolley wire for tho Bamberger road. This is the beginning of the electrification of the road between hero and Salt Lakp City. II. M. Lavne, of commanding pres- ence, being something over C Teet 3 Inohes high, is in charge and he has a gang of eight men working under him, driving stakes and doing tho preliminary pre-liminary work which is to make of the now road an intenirban electric line of modern equipment. By Tuesday morning, tho local force will be added to by a Bun eying gang and poBthole diggers, so that by the end of the week about forty men will be employed In electrifying. It had been planned to place ornamental orna-mental iron posts within tho city limits, lim-its, from which to string the wires, but the delay in receiving the material ma-terial from the east has caused tho substitution of wooden poles which are being located Just within the -curb lines. It is understood that Bamberger and the Rapid Transit people has settled their difference and tho Bamberger cars will b allowed to jointly operate I over the Rapid Transit line from tho corner of Lincoln along Twenty-nfth street to Grant, a distance of a block. This will give to the Bamberger ingress in-gress alons Grant avenu9 to tho terminal ter-minal property at tho corner ot Twenty- second street, which is soon to mark the Bite of a depot. Within a short time graders will commence cutting into tho asphalt pavement on Grant avenuo and following follow-ing them will come tho tracklayers who will put down a double line of rails to Twenty-second street. There is some talk of a temporary depot at tho corner of Lincoln avenue and Twonty-flfth street, but such a depot will bo mado neceBBary only in case tho track on Grant leading to Twenty-second street, is not completed in time for the rush during the G. A. R. encampment in August. The enginer in charge says the Bamberger Bam-berger road will be equipped with the latest electrical appliances in motors, cars, etc. Three or four tub-etatlons tub-etatlons are to be establlahed between here and Salt Lake City and some of the larger generating plants may bo operated by steam. Evidently the Bamberger road has mapped out a season of great acthity, and no doubt tho improvements will aggregate at least half a million dollars. |