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Show - of piles will be commenced on the east end, where the greatest damage dam-age occurred during Tuesday's storm. The bridging of the entire distance across the inland sea was E. A. Harriman's original suggestion, but later the expense was thought to be unnecessary. Since then the lake has increased in depth nearly eight feet and the recurring storms, with increasing wave force on the larger body of water, have made imperative extensions ex-tensions to the trestle STRENGTHENING THE CUT-OFF. Southern Pacific trains continue to be sent west from Ogden over the old Central Pacific line north of Great Salt Lake, but local officials state that the Ogdcn-Lucin cut-off will be reopened to traffic late this evening. Work trains are rapidly repairing the storm damage to the embankments em-bankments which form the approaches to the bridge across the lake. The trestle proper was not damaged by the storm of Tuesday, in fact, not since its construction seven years ago has the big bridge been impaired in the least by wave action, and this demonstration of the durability of the structure has caused the Harriman engineers to prepare plans for the displacing of the "fill-ins" with piling and the trestling of several miles of the road now built up of rock and earth material. Pile drivers and bridge gangs are at work extending the bridge on the west side of the lake and the statement is made that with the completion of the improvements at that point, the driving |