Show good by salt lake city helo colorado and denver with vic tae information at hand cleaned gleaned from the salt lake tribune saturday morning july all chances of a railroad for the uintah basin seems to be shot sky high and the pioneers dream has haa vanished like a bubble what next dew dear tolka folks what next following in the article concerning cutoff taken flom the tribune DENVER colo july 27 what li la declared to be one of the most important railroad developments since the boring of 0 t he the mot rat fat tunnel through the continental divide is the announcement today that the cutoff Is to be built immediately will be undertaken jointly by the denver rio grande western and the denver salt lake known as the moffat line at a cost of the butoft from dottero dotsero to will be for tyone ty one miles long and will be equipped with terminals and shops A decision to proceed with the construction of the line was reached following a conference here between Y T al AI maeller chairman of the braid of the denver rio gialde western and chairman of the executive committee of the western pacific and gerald Geral hughea dHughes chairman of the board of the mot alof fat road t work will be started within a short time it is expected and the ahe cutoff will be completed within a year the denver rio grande western will then operate over the hottat line between denver and dotsero dottero Dot sero through the recently completed moffat tunnel on a agreement construction of the dotsero dottero cutoff will be a significant development in western railroading since it will not only shorten the distance on the denver rio grande western between salt lake and denver deaver by approximately miles but it will also partially eliminate th the e greatest difficulty with which this road has had t to 0 contend the continental divide this will be accomplished by the use of the tunnel which the construction of oe the cutoff will mill permit instead of having to operate over what is called pueblo hook this load can follow a practically straight line from beiver along the me hait road connecting with jib awn tracks at dotsero dottero Dot sero building the cutoff is looked up om oin as a further on the part of the system of roads under control of arthur curtiss james new york capitalist to establish a new fast transcontinental Tail railroad road which will provide as direct a line between ta een chicago and the pacific coast as the union pacific and santa fe systems it is considered a natural sequence to the drilling of the moffat tunnel which pierces the continental tin divide with the longest railroad bore in america at the present time the tunnel Is ie used only by the moffat road which has its terminus Irminus te at craig colo and tor for some time there was considerable speculation as to whether the moffat line lime would be extended west from craig to salt lake or the 0 cutoff built it was a foregone conclusion that the tunnel would eventually be used by a transcontinental road james believed back of moffat tunnel the roads road under the direct or indirect control ot of mr james include the western pacific denver deaver rio grande and the chicago burlington quincy it la is believed that mr janies jahiel is also behind the reorganized denver deaver salt lake moffat line which operates 1 the fhe tunnel the building of the cutoff will not only bleed up schedule sched ule over I 1 the D it G W but will undoubtedly force competing roads roada to reduce their running time between betwee ni chicago and the coast the D R G W even under present conditions is maintaining schedules both passenger and freight which are almost as fast as those of competing roads it if they choose to reduce mbeni jhc thc m after the cutoff Is built it will mill mean that other roads will have to meet their time dottero dotsero to become important gateway atter after the cutoff is inaugurated dotsero dottero will become one of the important gateways in colorado present denver rio grande western trains which make connections with the missouri pacific tor for the least east will undoubtedly continue over the old line to pueblo terminus of the latter road those however which connect with the at denver for the east will use the cutoff and the moffat road into that city it Is believed that the new chort line provided by the cutoff will be used largely lair gely tor for freight since most of the scenic attractions on the D R G W are on the pueblo hook or tho the part which the cutoff would eliminate |