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Show OGDEN GETS CUTOFF Southern Pacific Will Build Lake Trestle. RESULT OF BIG MEETING Xtallroad Officials Meet Salt Lake Citizens Cit-izens and Explain that the Surveys All Tavor Ogden-Lucln Itoute Want to Shorten the Through Line Line Via Salt Lake Tlicy Claim Would be Much Longer Meeting- n Pleasant One, but Decision Alieady Favored tho Lake Route. Ogden gets the cutoff. The Southern Pacific will build Its lino from Lucln to Strong's Knob, thence ncross the Oreat Bait lake Into Ogden thereby saving forty-three miles over Its present route. This fact beenmo known yesterday nft-ernoon, nft-ernoon, when the railroad ofllclals met h committee representing tho Commercial Commer-cial club of Salt Lake. The meeting took placo In the largo vacant room In Shoit Lino headquarters opposite Mr. Hancrott's olllce, nnd those present were President Horneo O. Burt nnl Chief Unglneer J. II. lterry of tho Union Paclllc and Pourth Vice-President lu-Uus lu-Uus Kruttscbnllt nnd Chief Engineer William Hood of the Bouthern Pacific, llcpresentlng halt 1iko vvero Messrs T. G. Webber, T. it Cutler, 11. 13 Cutler. Cut-ler. W. A. Nelden, M Harrntt, 11 Wilkes, A. 1'. Doremus nnd 1'. A. Druehl rtAiLitOADnns' position. These gentlemen were piepared to ably argue In favor of Salt Lake nnd that they did so goes without sajlng, tut the railroad ofllclals wont Into dc-tnlls dc-tnlls for the bcnetlt of tho Bait Lakers and showed them that tho Ogden-Lucln cutoff would save grades and curves and foity-thiee miles of distance over tho present line Then they showed tint tho Union Paclflo could not build n line Into bait Lake and that nny lino coming from Lucln to Salt Lake would be over heavy grades unless tho water were used, and at nil events the point of connection would have to remain nt Ogden, so tho south shore line would be sixty-sever miles longc than tho trestle tres-tle routo across the lako nnl that for these reason the Ogden-Lucln lino had been recommended nnd would bo leeom-mended leeom-mended to the boird to bo built SALT LAKlins' IMPItrSSION. Tho Salt Lakers stated th it they had been working under the Impn sslon that a shorter lino tould he secured around the south shoio of tho lake, but If such were not the case, they, of course, could readily understand why the shorter short-er routo bad been selected. These vvero tho nuln points brought out, nlthough tho question was discussed dis-cussed from nil sides and ever matter be ii Ins on tho subject wns given In detail. WILL OO TO HATtRIMAN. Aftei tho meeting Mr. Kruttsehnltt explained that there had always been n misapprehension a to what could bo accomplished, but nctual surveys had demonstrated the superiority of tbo Ogdcn-Luiln cutoff. No contiacts had been let jet, only bids bad been nsked for. As to tho meeting of yesterday ho said that ever thing would be submitted submit-ted to Mr Iliirrlmin, be being beiovvltli tbo other oDUIiiIh ns Mr. Ilnrrlmaii s represrntnlve and nt bis request, but tliat tbo recommendations would bo made favoring the Ogden-Lucln cutoff us stated rimmrs on lakh cutoit Now that It Is definitely settled that the Ogden-Lucln cutoff is to bo built, n repetition nf the figures will bo In-terestlng In-terestlng rending Tho present Southern South-ern Pai Iflc line from Ogden to Lucln Is HI 5 n Ilea long The lake cutoff will ho 10J5 miles, n saving In distance of fom-threo mile. Hut this Is but tho heglnnlng nf tbo saving. The trilnn today, to-day, both custhound and westbound, have to climb thieo bill, one of them the Piomontnr, being steep and full of operating obstacles Ry the utoff the grades nre nil practically eliminated Prom Lucln to Strong's Knob tbeto I n drop of less than 600 feet nnd llft-elght llft-elght . lies In distance The trestle will be level, and from the Inke shore to Ot,den n rlso of ion feet In nbnut seventeen seven-teen miles The rise, either ensthnund nf westbound will be hardly noticeable, Tho section from Ogden to the shore requires re-quires ordinary grading, with n luldgo nvc r Weber liver The tietle from tho shore ncmss Itenr TUver biy to the end of tho Piomontnrj does not present nny formidable bairlers At th( end of the Promontnrv Ibero will ho Hevrial miles of rod- nnd earthwork 1 hen come Ihe haul Jo i the balding of tho tvven-t-inlle ti tit from the Promontnrj through ilte) w liter to the west shorn neir Wrong's I. nob Piom Wrong's Knob the line cut through the opening of tho Oreat Amirlrnn desert, between tho Terrncn nnd Lnktslde mountains, nnd tho rest of the v ly Is e isy, being meiely desert giadlng col wnnnnn s stathmuvt Col T. O. Webber said list evening that tho matter leenud to be definitely fettled, but tho committee had done over thing In ItH power to piesent Salt Lnkos argument to tho best advantage, but tho distances of the olllcl il survevs were all ngalnst Halt Lake na tho thlrty-soven-inllo stretch from Salt Lake to Ogden was a fnetor wblfli worked ucnlnst tho south shoro unite It wns .also nprnient that the 1 ilo cutoff cut-off was nhrecd upon, und what the rsllrnnd wnnted wns to leduce Ihe dls-tanro dls-tanro of the through transcontinental route, nnd with this In view nothing Salt Iike could offer In fniiuhlses or a bonus would have any efti ct upon tho milroad men '1 he meeting, added Col Webber, was nu Inten sting one, and tho inlhond ofllclals were courteous In tho extreme and evince 1 great Interest In the arguments presented. |