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Show CONTRACTS ON, CANYON ROAD DEEP CUT AT THE MOUTH OF THE CANYON. Trolley Line Is Not to Make a Betid at That Point Blasting Through the Conglomerate. Several new contracts were let by the Ogden Rapid Transit company today to-day for various portions of the grading grad-ing to be done for the first laptif tho Huntsvlllc road- through Ogdcn canyon can-yon It has been decided to change tho location of the track at certain points, particularly at the mouth of the canyon can-yon where a ctfrve In tho road was contemplated to conform with the direction di-rection of the wagon road. At the point where the road rounded round-ed a huge deposit of natural concrete boulders, gravel, etc.. cemented into a concrete mass an extensive cut will be made bo as to straighten the road for several hundred feet. In some places the cut will bo blasted to a depth of thirty feet or more and It Is estimated that nearly a thousand tons of rock will be displaced before the job Is completed. A huge derrick Is now at work further fur-ther up the canyon, at the proposed site of the second brjdge. where great rocks and boulders arc being removed from the bed of tho river to deepen and Improve tho channel. |