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Show REPORT ON CUT-OFF WORK Superintendent K. C. Manson of the Southern Pacific company la In Salt Lake City today conferring with tho enteral officials of the Oreuon Shor;. Line Railroad company relative to tho vast amount of Improvement work that 1 coins done on tho Og len-Lueln cit-off. cit-off. The report tli.it Superintendent Manson will make to the chiefs will ho a most encouraging one. as splendid splend-id results have been accomplished iu tho work on the lake. At the present tlmo tho company Is using six work trains In hauling th-ballast th-ballast and rock from the Hakes!. !e quarry to the fills at Rambo, Saline, and on the cast end of the cutoff. This work Is carried on nitht t 1 day and will bo continued until the grade of the fill Is the oamc as thai of tho trestles. The work upon the mile of now trestle thai Is being built at the ."t J end of the present trestle, no as l.j give a double track, Is being done under un-der the direction of Engineer A. Q. Campbell. The work of driving tho piles and the laying of the caps and stringers require.-, tho services of experts ex-perts who were pecured in California. Califor-nia. Since the Improvement work started start-ed upon the cutoff about two months ago, excellent headway has been male, there being no storms of any nature U cause delay. It is the intention in-tention of the officials In charge to I have the work so far carried along by Tall that the great trestle-work land the fills ran withstand the heaviest heav-iest storms that are known. |