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Show A NEW RAILROAD WEST OF OGDEN. Have you ever consulted a map of the Pacific states and observed ob-served the curve inward which the coast line of California forms from its northern tip to Los Angeles? No! Well do so now as a knowledge of the coast line is essential to an understanding as to why the Southern Pacific has planned, and is about to build, a rail-road rail-road from Hazen, Nevada, north to Klamath Falls, as a connecting link between what is known as the Los Angeles Aqueduct route and the new cut-off to Portland, Oregon. Los Angeles is on a direct line north and south with Lovelock, Nevada, and Lovelock is 345 miles east of San Francisco and 56 miles east of Hazen by rail, so that San Francisco i3 approximately 300 miles out of a direct route north from Los Angeles. Portland is west of north of Hazen, but by building from Hazen to Kalamath Falls, where connection will be made with the new line of the Southern Pacific, Pa-cific, it is said there will be a saving in distance from Los Angeles to Portland of about 400 miles. Prior to the reconstruction of the old Central Pacific line, the town of Wadsworth, Nevada, was one of the most important division points between Ogden and Sacramento. It was a town of considerable importance and children had been reared there from the cradle to maturity, ma-turity, so old and well established was the place. Then came the day when Harriman's engineers found a better grade and ordered the isolation iso-lation of the town. A few of the old timers refused to leave and they have since held down the whittled boxes on the corner groceries of the deserted village, ever hoping. The railroad company, from sentiment sen-timent rather than business promptings, ordered the tracks left undisturbed un-disturbed and so Wadsworth, even in its decadence, has occasionally heard the toot of a locomotive whistle within its boundaries. Now the promise in that Wadsworth is to be resuscitated, revived, rejuvenated rejuven-ated and once more made an important railroad station. The road to Klamath Falls will run directly through the slumbering burg and Wadsworth will be repopulated with railroad men and stirred with all the life which it possessed when a division terminal. There are many railroad people in Ogden who will rejoice that their old home is to get back its own and that, in the changing of the- railroad maps of the west, a great coast line is to pass through the old town. |