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Show DOUBLE TRACK ON ! ,THE UNION PACIFIC ! ' ' ; i Ten More Miles Added to the; Main Line of Overland Route Soon i the Utah Division on the West End Will Be Double-Tracked. i Ten miles of new double track has Just been cut Into service between Green River and Rock Sprlncs. on the Utah division of the I'nlon Pacific, and five additional miles will be added 'as poon as the new bridges are completed complet-ed This will make seventy inlleg of double track between Green River and Rawlins, and a total of one hundred hun-dred and forty live miles of double track on the division under Superintendent Superin-tendent Jeffcrs... It Is expected that authority for the construction ' of fifty-three addltlona.1 miles of double-track on the Utah di vision will bo i8ued after July 1, the ! beginning of the new railroad year, i and this will aegregate nearly two j hundred miles of double track between be-tween Osden and Rawlins. The traffic on this Important dlvls- j ion of the Union Pacific is now heav- ler than ever before and about fifteen hundred cars are being handled daily, i Trains are following each uher as ' fast as they can be sent out of the; different freight district terminals, and ; a doublo-track between Rawlins and Ogden is absolutely essential to handle the ever-increasing business. I |