Show salina cut off and tin tic cut oft figure in plin traffic over soldier to be cut to the minimum southern cutoffs afford easy pulling one of the latest rumors circulated concerning the D R G railway s in tent is toward railroad bu iding and an effort to relieve the overburdened Ld con of its main line south and east of salt lake city cones co nes to the pi ogress from a man who has had more or less business with the rio grande railway officials for the past two he in forms us that he lately talked with a officer and was informed that it was the company s intention to build the salma cut off in tl e near fu ture and that one object of the recent purchase of the sanpete valley 1 ne vas that the same was to br extended from nephi to a connection with the gintic tintic branch which would require but a few m les of new road by this means the bulk of the tl rouan fre traffic from kansas city to salt lake city and westward west waid would be diverted at green river sent 0 er the salina cut off thence to manti and nephi and west ward to salt lake and beyond it is claimed that this d stance is but A very few mile farther than via soldier sum nut ind by thib course the heavy grade of soldier t will be avo ded and no other steep grades to with the speedy handl ng of heavy freight or passenger trains A glance at a map of utah and the railway 1 nes of the rio grande corn pany will colv anyone that the proposition is not only feasible but one of decided merit with the road now crowded with more traffa than it can conveniently handle and practically getting no bus ness aiom the line at ogden the increased vo ume of bus ness the road will get when the western pacific is open d to san fran cisco aich will be next ear will tamly make it impossible to handle all tho traffic ovel soldier summit i the salina cutoff 1 ne through th s villey for a long distance will furnish a grade iss thin one per cent and with the opening up of ne or more coal amps here the coit of the corn pany s fuel supply will be reduced to the mm mum and a vat volu ne of fuel traffic westward will be inaugurated A lack of equipment will prevent any regular passenger trains bin operated on the western pacific railroad out of salt lake this year accord ng to the announcement of col I 1 A beaton of the per ver and rio grande mr anton impossible lor either the denver and rio grande or the rio grande western to get enough cars or lococo ives tb operate th lines as they should be operated and that it is folly to suppose that the western pacific which is also a gould line will try to operate under present cond eions the western pacific is now complete for 20 miles west and it was the in to put it in operation this month 1 benton says that cais are bearg turned bojt as fast as ible and that in a few months there will be sufficient ament with which to start regular service on the western fie |