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Show 'handle their tnmc. the Salt 'l ake 1 Rout being forced to send It frame and freight via the Southern Pacific on account of the disastrous Meadow Valley wnsh. In spite of the fr.ow and blizzard of Tuesday, all iralns on the llarriman lines coming rito 0gfe-n were kept on time Monduy, and the same up to schedule condition prevailed vester-day, vester-day, none of the trains being reported late. TRAINS MAKE TIME OVER THE CUT-OFF Another vindication of the stability arxl permanence of the Ocden-Lucln Cut-Off. which certain Salt Lake sources seem lo believe and hope will eventually bo ubandoned for some Imaginative, Impossible route already al-ready known as the Farmington cutoff, cut-off, was given yesterday when the local lo-cal railroad officials stated emphatically emphati-cally that no damage, beyond the splashing of salt water on tho rails, rendering them rather slippery and making some trouble for the en-glnemen en-glnemen in starting their trains, had been done by tho storm which destroyed des-troyed approximately ten miles of the track recently constructed by the Western Pacific Railroad company at the southern end of the Great Salt Iake- Press dispatches from 9alt Lake nnd other points contain the Information that considerable damage wan done the Western Pacific Railroad company in the bin storm, so rauco. In fact, that It must bo OTCral weeks before traffic traf-fic can be resumed over bls line. When It l considered that the Western West-ern Pacific road has not nearly as loug a stretch of track over the lake as the Southern Pacific has In the Lucln Cut-off, and yet a storm which almost wipes out the Western Pacific road falls to affect the transportation facilities of the Harrlman lines over the cut off, ' it Is apparent that the Lucln Cut-off Is a fixture. Railroadmen are making preparations prepara-tions to handle the extra traffic whtch will naturally come through Ogden by reason rf tke Western Pacific being put -temporarily out of service. This makes, two road now depending on Jjo Harrlman Uses through Oeden to |