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Show Remarkably Rapid Progress Made . in Repair-ing Repair-ing the Damaged Road Through Palisade Canyon-Western Pacific to Use S. P. TrackS"No More Betoured Trains , message from Di-.iion Superintendent Superin-tendent Manson, dated Palisade,' nd received at the local officer of the Southern Pacific last night, reads: I "Rarring un'ircs( en delays, the line In Palisade Canyon will bo open for through traffic Wednesday. Send No. .1 and the fast mall bv thts route, beginning be-ginning Wedncsdav morning. Trains w 111 be held at Carlin until Thursday." Thurs-day." In romp'iaTice wiih the superintend-enl's superintend-enl's oider, the two trains left Ogden at In and ll:"i7 a. m., but, be'ore de-partlrg, de-partlrg, passenger: were notified that they ivould be held at Carlin for the flnnl word, and they were given n i choice, of remaining in Ogden and fie- J pprfing on Nop. S and ." Thursday or j proceeding west to the point where j the last of the breaks are bclnp rap- i idly closed. No more trains aro to be detoured , by way of Portland, and by Friday j passenger traiTIc on the Southern Pa- j schedule in force prior in the disastrous disas-trous wahoijis of len days ago. The resumption of through traffic came earlier than expected. As the rnnrrucrron1crTing?"K-oi-ken'Tvest or Palif.ade ihey discovereil thr.t the d. image to the road was not as great In the center of the canyon as ar eilber end, and thai, as a consequence, temporary repnlrst to allow of the passage of trains, could be made in several days' less lime than had been forccnsL For over a week the combined efforts ef-forts of all rUe construction forces at. the command of the Southern Paclficj from Ogden to San Francisco, have been centered on the work of reopen-In- the transcontinental line. Two general managers rr.ndo their head-i epiarters In th food zone and re- uialned in direct command day and night With tiie. opening of trafhc General Manager Calvin will return to San Francisco and General Mana-I Mana-I per Bancroft is expected to reach Os-j Os-j den tomorrow evening No estimate of the toial damage ' caused by the floods hns been given ! cut by nny of the railroad officials, ! but It" will approximate half a million dollars, not including uie loss of busi ness caused by the interruption of trafilc. (Continued on Page Six ) j I PASShHCERS TO BE HELD AT CARLIN (Continued trom Pace One Tho Wisiern Pacilie, which Is badly bad-ly washed 0tf p, to rn jts jfjipn fiom Meowuwc to Klk.i over the Southern Pacific traeks. The Oregon Short Line railroad v as agiiln threatened y esterday afternoon af-ternoon by a washout in Idaho. This lat trouble occurred yesterday ur-ttrnooi ur-ttrnooi at Porder, Idaho, between McCamm- n, ldaiio( ' at,e Granger. Wyoming on Hie main lino of Ihe railroad rail-road On account ,,f tbe heaw iloods undermining the abutments' of a bridge. ir,iffic had to b suspended The exleiit 01" the damage a til" l-ilclge was thought u, have been greater great-er than it really wps and one passenger passen-ger train was detouiod via Ogd-n. Report received at Iho railroad of-llees of-llees 'this morning were to the effect it;a the da-nape lid been repaired and tra.'Hc over the line was re-sjiiud re-sjiiud immediatciv. |