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Show WILL BE BEST ROAD INCOUNTRV i The Southern Pacific company Is Mill busily engaged extending its sidetracks over the Salt Lake division divis-ion of its road, and to this end th-i Corey Brother Construction company of thlH city has been at work for some weeks, sidetracks that heretofore hereto-fore were G.oiui f?et long will be extended ex-tended another 1.000 feet, and !-pound !-pound rails will replace the 75 and S-pound S-pound steel. The heavy rails will be laid between Cobre and Wells, and lu sections as far weM as Dattle Mountain. Moun-tain. When this work Is completed. It Ik said by the railroad officials, the Southern Pacific, over this division, will be the best road In the United States. The, rails that are being taken up on the main line will be laid on the Nevada & California narrow gauge branch. Within the next sixty days the gap In this branch will be closed at Owcneo, California. This will make another route from Ogden to 1is An-gfles An-gfles via the Harrlman lines. However there will he about one hundred and fourteen miles of the road that will remain narrow gauge for about a year. When the gap I closed the people of Oweneo will hold a big celebration which will be attended by the prominent prom-inent railroad and state officials of Nevada and California. The completion of this line will also make a link hetween Los Angeles and Portland. The llr.r will run north through Hazn to Wadsworth and an extension will connect wih the Klain-math Klain-math Kails line which will is under construction. |