Show ANOTHER RAILROAD COMING from denver to salt lake through strawberry valley at a meeting of the denver chamber of commerce recently the proposition of a short line to salt lake city irom colorados capital was discussed received in the course ot the reading ut the report ot the committee appointed upon the subject we and the very important words being used now although your board of directors believe thit if vo nave an air line from denver to salt lake the roads from the east would come thick and fast yet they are that the small cost of completing the survey the western line ut kansas to the city ol 01 denver will toe a cheap outlay lor the leverage that the ot tho denver local roads bould have in effecting negotiations with the road that nuy buy the line irom the n er to denver in effecting a continuance of that line westward to aalt lake further in correspondence with the board ot trade of salt lake and in with a delegation of that body held lately in this city it is believed tuat the aalt lake people will cake up aliis idea aad organize 1 local railroad corporation to connect at the western line ot our state and run a survey through utah and possibly nevada ahe best beyt remains to be built it will have over two hundred miles from nere to iselt lake and make tributary to Uen verone of the parts ot the united states and your operation cooperation co of the obtaining of sarv ays eys and the expense attendant upon placing the knowledge obtained before the proper parties is now sought jendru jen eru B M hubbes was called upon and said that in ane building of rait reads it struck him as that a road to salt lake had nev er been proposed una could be built miles shorter while solicitor for the overland stage route it was suggested to him thata nearer line shoula be had to halt lake and mr edwardl berthoud of golden was chosen to survey a route which be did I 1 he route was speaking about the survey that was macs general hughes sald that secretary fc ranton supplied tv 0 companies of united aul diers and bangham young rendered assistance the survey wag ade through the wasatch range to alley the obstacles on white river were aboken of which he eaid could be easily removed there w as plenty of coal in the region proposed to be gune through thi ough more man ne thought existed in colorado and of a superior quality the only obstacle between here and bialt lake is the wasatch mountains A route can be easily secured it will be expensive but can be secured and will be the route for denver he did not think a better man could be secured to make the survey than mr berthoud president fletcher stated that mr berthoud bad made a report which was considered too valuable to read at present |