Show ailway war impends over moffat bore pcr vcr 1 salt late lake une line pivotal point 0 in contest pass the goal annel ea solves problem of grade aich i ich plum wall street has at humor NEW YORK march II 11 A new I 1 1 battle looms the feene of the 91 e will occur around denver p e objective will be the denver 1 I salt lake railway or rather le ie moffat at tu tunnel anel willed tt it has sed for years the con ders will be the james roads ir lington western pacific and inver river rio grande western id d the union pacific wall street A tard lard today the te denver salt lake started I 1 as the denver northwest n pacific by david Alof moffat fat to be a rich plum to its ner for the aloff moffat at tunnel ik ditch la 13 miles long and Is c algest in this country s the distance between chicago id the pacific coast by seventy lies les and clips the space betge between n A iver and salt lake by lea long devious way after varying attempts to build low route and alter by a high e ute which with its 4 per cent it fade ade and its great altitude was I 1 16 a most remarkable standard to uge luge road in the country moffat ed d and the road passed through veral iveral groups and thence into re iver ship from which it emerged n ie e first of vils this year ie the denver salt lake runs rune 9 orn om denver to craig a distance of continued on page four railway war impends over moffat bore continued from page one miles the salt lake denver has pending before the interstate commerce commission a plea to build a mile track between craig colo and provo utah for the purpose of opening up an area rich in undeveloped minerals resources such as coal shale oil and a product which when treated closely resembles rubber although officials of the roads mentioned declined to comme comment t it t is well known that the jam james roads would like to acquire denver salt lake because of the moffat tunnel lease the denver rio grande western by using the dotsero dottero cutoff a forty one mile connecting link with the denver salt lake would enter denver thereby eliminating a haul to pueblo miles south of denver from which point it runs westward the western pacific which owns a half interest in the denver and rio grande would furnish an outlet to the pacific coast tor for the denver salt lake assuming the latter were permitted to join in 1 building the craig provo line the chicago burlington quincy another road dominated by arthur curtiss james the worlds biggest holder of rail stocks running from chicago and st louis and term ir Lating at denver through an arrangement ran gement with the denver rio grande western could reach the pacific coast by way of the latter and denver salt lake U P wants new route the union pacific which has to dutour northward because of the alEi altitude tude of the transcontinental divide also is eager to get a more direct route to the coast through this section leaving leading wyoming where at granger it branches off to salt lake the union pacific wants a boic direct link between denver and salt lake while the struggle between the james roads and the union pacific nears chicago rock island pacific also wants to get in with the denver salt lake rock island asked the interstate commerce commission to revise its agreement with the denver rio grando grande western so it can use the denver salt lake tracks into denver by the agreement under which wh eb the moffat tunnel was construe constructed te d it Is provided that any road which wh ch builds up to it from either cither side s de shall have up to it from either sary rental charge in other words the tunnel is on a common car carrier basis it is pointed out however that because of the extreme difficulty which would be encountered in the building of another line of road up to the tunnel from either side the denver salt lake will be the focus of any attempts to get the asb use of the tunnel this road is the only one which is ia in a position to use the bore upon its completion within the next few months the denver salt lake it is explained follows from denver west to the continental divide the most practicable route and an attempt to build another road to the mouth of the tunnel would entail ex idl tures that might be out of tion to he benefits derived uintah line the opinion was expressed in local railroad circles friday that it if the james interests which now control the burlington Dur lington and the western pacific should get control of the denver salt lake their next move would be to build through the uintah basin to salt lake this would provide the last link in a new transcontinental road on the other hand they might build the dottero dotsero cutoff cut off which would connect the denver salt lake with the denver rio grande western thus completing ing a through route from chicago to the coast the latter Is considered unlikely by so some me who are in close touch with the situation tor for the folla following ow reason the denver rio grande western Is controlled on a fifty eltty fifty basio basin by the western pacific and the missouri pacific this means that james jamea now controls con trola 50 per cent of this road but he would not be able to weld it into his proposed transcontinental system without at least a 51 per cent control this would mean a relinquish ment on the part of tho the missouri pacific which is quite unlikely since the denver rio grande pre provides yides an advantageous outlet for it to tho the poast V virgin birzin tem territory ory it I 1 la pointed out further that the continuation of 0 the denver and salt lake through tile the uintah basin would open up a virgin territory and develop a tremendous new tonnage A project to build east froni from salt lake to craig the western terminus of the denver salt lake 1 la 13 3 now under way under the sponsorship ot of the damberger bamberger interests of salt lake according to julius damberger bamberger who heads these interests they would be glad to cooperate with james or any other capitalist who would guarantee the building of 0 the road through the basin proposed road the salt lake denver now has an application before the interstate commerce commission to build the line east to connect with the me den ver salt lake |