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Show RECONSTRUCTING THE LINE. I If the Southern Pacific people open their line west of Ogden to through traffic by next Sunday evening, they will accomplish the herculean task of reconstructing the greater part of seventeen miles of a canyon line which, in its present wrecked condition, presents all the obstacles of tangled bridges and obliterated roadbed. But we believe Superintendent Manson and his lieutenants are equal to the task. They have called to their aid the construction forces from Ogden to San Francisco and have requisitioned train-loads train-loads of material, including thousands of feet of piling and bridge material, which, with pile drivers, steam shovels, work trains and an army of trained section men, promise to accomplish what seems almost impossible. Transcontinental travel by the central highway is thoroughly demoralized de-moralized and this demoralization will continue until the road through Nevada once more offers an outlet several days short of the time now consumed in that circuitous route to Portland and down the coast. By the way, it is well that sometimes there are great and power, ful corporations to meet just such emergencies as this one. With millions of dollars in reserve, the Southern Pacific is equal to the task of restoring the wrecked track, and soon trains will be moving as though nothing unusual, much less an act of Providence of Titanic destructiveness, had befallen the transcontinental line. |
