Show THREE ROADS TO WORK TOGETHER Moffat From Denver to Dotsero D. D R. R G. G and Uintah On to Salt Lake Through the Uintah Basin Six Tunnels Tunnels Branch Branch Line Mack to Prick Price There are two reports In circulation circulation tion as to the present Intention of the management of the Denver Salt Lake Railway company One report is to the effect that the idea of coming through the Uin Uintah tah basin has been abandoned The Theother Theother other is that arrangements are be ing made at this time with the tho D. D R. R G. G and the Uintah Railway companies whereby a through line is to be established between Detner Deuter and Salt Lake and on to the Pacific coast The Myton Free Press discussed this plan last fall There is hardly hardly hard hard- ly a doubt but that the Moffat road will connect with the D. D R. R G. G at Dotsero a few miles east of Grand Junction But will the trains then continue on to Salt Lake over the D. D R. R G. G tracks The Tho reasonable answer would be in the negative From Mack Colorado where the Uintah railroad connects with the tho D. D R R. G. G to Price Utah the country Is almost a desert For at least east miles there Is hardly any anything thing but a barren waste Railroad companies do not make money when they hey run through a barren country Newman Erb last year when passing through Myton declared that one of he the drawbacks ta tits extent exten ion of the Moffat Moffatt road road from Oral Crai to Jensen is the barren country for fora a distance of miles Now it seems that with this Dotsero Dot Dot- sero soo off cut both of these barren countries can be eliminated and the distance as compared with the distance distance dis dis- tance via Pueblo greatly reduced The plan is to establish a through line ine as follows Denver to a point east of Grand Junction over the Denver Den Den- ver and Salt Lake railroad point east of Grand Junction to D. D R R. R Goad G 0 road oad forty miles over the Dotsero off cut Dotsero off cut to Mack via Grand Junction over the D. D R R. R t O. O road Mack to Randlett over the tracks of the Uintah Railway corn com company pany Randlett connect up again with D. D R. R G. G road to be built from the west to Randlett survey lately completed To put a road like that on a payIng paying pay pay- Ing basis would mean half dozen tunnels tunnels tun tun- nels and the broad gauging of the thu Uintah railroad One of these tun tunnels nels nela must go through Ja Sn acs acs peak at the continental divide In rasa lost weeks week's Free Press It was shown hit hat this tunnel would pay lor tor itself in ten years ears The other five must be bored through the tha Baxter pass The cost according to estimates estimates esti esti- mates furnished by engineers em employed employed by the Uintah company com com- company pany would be inside of The broad gauging of the road would be comparatively a small matter The bridge work across White and Green rivers would bo be considerable The Uintah basin is a rich territory territory terri terri- tory and doubtless would soon prove a paying proposition to railroads Wo We have here a country which will yield abundantly almost everything from an agricultural and stock growing growing grow grow- ing standpoint The minerals especially cope espe dally Hydrocarbons are ble The Tho government estimates the value of the Hydrocarbons at seven billion dollars Recent Investigations show that it will pay to extract the oil from the Northeastern Utah shale A country so rich as this Is vastly different from those desert stretches between Craig and Jensen and between be e tween Mack and Price Railroad men want to run through such countries countries coun coun- tries as this Uintah basin In discussing the question of the abandonment of the Uintah basin in inthe inthe the building of the Dotsero cut oft the Salt Lake Herald Republican recently recently re re- head had this to say The Denver Salt Lake railroad railroad rail rail- road heretofore declared de do- dared its intention to build through the Uintah basin has practically given up its original plans it Is declared and after boring the James peak tunnel will take the short route through Colorado and connect with the Denver Rio Grande at a few miles east of Grand Junc Junc- tion The route which has been mapped out by the new financial Interests in control of the road will make a hour fifteen run or bettor better between Salt Lake Lako and Denver James A. A McIlwee who is at atthe atthe the Hotel Utah declared last night that the firm of McIlwee brothers tunnel builders had received from the Denver Salt Lake three propositions to build the James peak tunnel and that while none has as yet been accepted by the company assurances assurances as as- had been received that the tunnel will be built Mr McIlwee said be he believes the road from Denver to Salt Lake is assured so far as the financial arrangements are concerned In the event the contract islet is islet let for the boring of the James peak tunnel the grade and the mileage will both be reduced The short line will escape the high climb to Leadville and over overTA TA es ee P or wIllbe jeli F r cent grades on the Denver c cRio Rio Grande line Who Is behind the financial interests in the Denver salt Lake was not by Mr McIlwee but he said he knows that enough money Is behind the proposition to make it go if the directors and the engineers fc l that the tho road would Improve the service from the Facile coast to the east and get the traffic The Moffat road is surer of being built today than it has In yeas years said Mr McIlwee We have submitted three propositions propositions for building the James peak tunnel which Is the key to the short line and if tiny one of them is accepted the road will nill go through I know the Uintah basin has been practically eliminated eliminated elim elim- by the engineers in charge of the road and that a 0 connection at Dotsero will give the same if not better results as far as the Denver Salt Lake Is concerned The road is going through if the financial In Interests In- In teresta In the east will do what they propose |