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Show ytor A. Clark, Is to be eongrah;-lated eongrah;-lated upon the final restoration of hla line through the washed-out section of southern Nevada. The calamity that overtook the road mouths aqo and entirely washed the roadbed from off the face of the earth, was staggering stagger-ing In Its results and in most any. other case would have proven fatal; for the restoration of the rood, so extensive ex-tensive was the damage, meant th1 reconstruction of miles upon miles of roadbed, the replacement of as many miles of rail and the purchase of much expensive rolling stock, for I' will be remembered that the flood that washed away the tracks also carried car-ried with It complete freight and passenger pas-senger trtain, and piled them up Into scrap heaps. Telegraphic dispatches state that the first Overlaud limited train on the restored railroad will Btart east from Los Angeles tomorrow night, ani that tho train from Chicago for Los Angeles An-geles starts today. This marks th? passing of the worst tragedy that h.-s overwhelmed a railroad, and It Is also tho monument to the courage and re-sourcefulness re-sourcefulness of that big little giant In the railroad and Industrial world, William A. Clark. Goldfleld News. TRIBUTE TO BUILDER OF SALT LAKE ROUTE The indomitable and imperturbable builder of the Salt Lake railroad, Sen- |