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Show CUT-Of f TRESTLE TO BE EXTENDED The Southern Taclflc company, since the floods ended, has been turning turn-ing Its attention toward tho reconstruction recon-struction work on the Ogden-Lucln cutoff across -Great Salt Lake. Work trains, 6team shovels and laborers who were temporarily removed from Lnlceslde to the scenes of the washouts wash-outs on the line between Loray and L'attle Mountain have been returned for the continuation of tho work upon tho cutoff which will mean the expenditure ex-penditure of about 5100,000 during tbo coining summer. The greater part of the work will be conlined to the west sldo of tho lake for a,f.l6tance of about five I thousand feet, the gTadc of which will be raised about five feet and doublo tracks put in and the fill widened in general. The company will construct a new trestle beginning at the terminus ot the trostlo on the west side of the lake. This will parallel the present line aud will be an extension of tbo double track from the trestle to tho west shore of the lake. For this tren- tlo work a new pile driver will bo used, which Is equipped with steam hummer and a largo saw and which, when it drlvos home a pile, saws tbo top off at tho required level, and leaves it ready for the caps and stringers. Camp or outfit cars will be placed at several points along tho line of tho reconstruction work. At Karabo about five miles from the west ehore of the lake, a camp for one hundred pllc-drlver employes and carpenters rrlll be established. At Lakeside, whero tho large gravel grav-el pit Is maintained, tho camp will bo enlarged and five work trains will handle the rock and ballast used in the strengthening of the roadbed The work upon the lake will glvo employment to about five hundred men for several months and when completed the Southern Pacific's lino will be an insurmountable barrier against the storm waves of tbo Great Salt Lake. It Is stated that the reconstruction sork will bo under un-der the direction of Assistant Engineer Engin-eer Campbell. |