Show I MANY NEW PROJECTS List for Present Year Unusually Un-usually Long One NINE THROUGH RAILROADS i Dozens of Short Branches and Spurs Incorporated I I Technical Railway Papers Tabulate Names of All Incorporations for I New Railroads rind Extensions I i All the technical and railway Journals Jour-nals of the East have lately gotten out special engineering numbers and a feature Is a resume of the probable construction this your of new railroads or lines projected In glancing over these reports this region or rather the Intennountnln and Pacific coast dl t vlBlons seem to be rich In projected t r ttdlS well as lines under contract I In tinBe figures the Union Pacific Southern Pacific Short Line and Rio Grande systems lead with Immense I plfinn for line changes double track extensions and general improvements which Imye been detailed from time to time But what causes the greatest amount of surprise Is the largo number of projects pro-jects which have for their aim the construction con-struction of a now tranacontlnenuil line These are nil given with routes and details Among them are the Denver Den-ver Northwestern it Pacific San Pedro Los Angeles Salt Lnke Coos Kay Salt Lake Utah Western John Kollock l promoter Stockton ct Bcckwlth Pass Great Central California Midland California Cal-ifornia Pacific Western Pacific all of which have for their nlm a road to pass through Utah How many of these projects will mature through the year It In impossible to say the projects l beIng be-Ing those which have flourished throughout t the yea I and I being tabulated tabu-lated by the trchnloal papers make quite a formidable showing when grouped However work Is going on at Denver San Francisco and Los Angeles An-geles on three of the projects and there is reason to helloe that work will not cease but HP 1 kept up all the year The statistics also give may other little projects and branches In different r States Every Incorporation ol the t last two years in the States nean Utah Is mentioned and the list would be close to a column in length if printed In this paper If a hundredth part of the total Is added to the mileage of the Western States it will prove a great factor In the upbuilding of this region |