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Show NEW ROAD OUT OF WADSWORTH. Division Superintendent Rowlands of the Southern Pacific has received instructions that 107 miles of rail are to be delivered at Wadsworth, beginning within the next few days. This is a most important im-portant move on the part of the Harriman roads, as it means the building of a standard gauge road from the old town of Wadsworth, in western Nevada, north across the Western Pacific at Gerlach and on in to California and the Klamath Falls country of Oregon, to a connection with the cut-off now being constructed south from Natron, Oregon, by the Utah Construction company of this city. The new road will be part of a line which, joining with the Hazen cut-off south, will make a continuous coast road from Los Angeles to Portland. West-bound freight and passengers for the Northwest, instead of going over the Granger line in Wyoming will continue west to Og-den Og-den and go over the Southern Pacific to Wadsworth and on north to Portland and that region. The road will also divert much of the traffic of the Northwest, sending it through the Ogden gateway. In this way this city will be benefited in no small degree. Following this new construction, the Saline-to-Burley road will be built, which, with connections to be made with a new route across Oregon, lately inspected by President Lovett of the Harriman system, sys-tem, will give to Ogden a second cut-off to the Northwest. Ogden's prestige as a railroad center is to be materially strengthened within the next twelve months. 0 |