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Show WESTERN PACIFIC WILL BE COMPLETED IN JULY "The two ends of tho Western Pa j clfic will bo coupled up about the end of July of this year, at the present rnte of construction." said S. V. Der-rah. Der-rah. general passenger agent and traffic traf-fic manager for tno Western Pacific, this morning. "The construction gangs are laving a mile of track a day on the eastern end and equally good progress doubtless is being made on the western end of tho road "Of course, that does not sav the road will be in operation at that" date, or for some time thereafter. Tliere are a thousand and one details to attend at-tend to in the opening up of a new line and especially one with transcontinental transconti-nental connections. The matter of ar-: ranging tariffs alone. Is a mighty task and one which requires a great deal of time. Then there Is the building of stations, establishing of agencies, the supplying and apportionment of equipment, and an endless array of detail work to attend to before" the lino can be said to be ready for traffic.; traf-fic.; And whilo It can not be said with exactness when the opening date will be announced the officials of the road were well grounded in their computation computa-tion that it will he during the fall of toe year, "From Salt Lake westward about 340 miles of rail have been laid. On the California end tho track is built from Orovllle more than thlrtv miles eastward. All the tunnel work of the j road has been completed, the Inst tun- j nel construction beting recently completed com-pleted on the Spring Garden bore In Plumas county. California. This tunnel tun-nel is 7.300 feet long and was one of the first pieces of work started when the contractors began construction work The Chllcoot tunnel. C.40O feet long, was also completed this month, as well as the Flower Lake tunnel in eastern Nevada. C,G57 feet In length. A peculiarly of the Flower Lake tunnel tun-nel construction was that. In its more than a mile of length, not a single drop of water was encountered. Tho roadbed of the Western Pacific Is the finest in the country," continued Mr. Derrah, "and when operation of the road Is commenced it will not have to stop on account of poorly constructed road" |