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Show BROAD GAUGENQ mm Contract Shortly to Be Awarded for Through Haren-Mojave Road. Within a short time another big contract will be awarded on the Owenyo road. As recently told, the I rs 1 1 road has been connected at lone I'ine so that a through connection Is completed between I.os. Angeles and Huzen It is a narrow and broad gauges line, and the loo miles of narrow nar-row gaiiAe will have to be entirely re-surveyed re-surveyed and reconstructed before it can be operated as a low grade broad gauge road The surveys hae been made and, it is said, the location c;ill for sonif' very heavy work in getting over the high ground around the base of Mount Whitney. The present narrow nar-row KHUge is such that the engines in use have a pretty hard time pulling even a few cars to the top of the divide, and it is therefore out of ques-tion ques-tion to utilize the edd location, as the new line is proposed to be used feu-through feu-through heavy freights, and the chief object is to secure a line that w ill off-j off-j set the heavy grades over Tehacbapl I and Truekee. An ofllclal who has frequently gone over the- line states that it will be a scenic wonder nr.d as a winter mut? will be unexcelled. To the west of the line rises Mount Whitney, which Is surrounded by some famous ranun tain scenery that attracted the great artist, BiersUtdt. nuniy veari ago To arusi, iwersiaui. ninny years ago to the ei'.st lb-s Death va'lh-y, that forbidding for-bidding desert which has for years been famous as the home of twenty-mule twenty-mule teams. The teams have disappeared, disap-peared, but lying alongside the new railroad can be found here and there the immense deep wagons that were used to haul the soda ami borax, mute eideiices of the march of civilization. Tiie work of rebuilding the line is going along steadily, but the chief work and the climax will be the construction con-struction of the new line. |