Show BERRY OPPOSES l LUCIN LUCIN CUTOFF Ff Plan Pan Killed KiU d by byj I Union Pacific P Engineer 1 OBJECTIONS TO PROJECT OP OF ROUTE HAS RAS EASEN BEEN EN 4 4 J Special to TH The Herald Heald Omaha Keb Nb Sept M Chief Engineer En ln 1 Berry Derry of o the Union Unton ban bu ha reported adversely adver ely on t te e proposition to build a cutoff across Salt lake from Ogden to Lutin The Southern Pacific had made such plans pIan prior to its HI absorption by bythe bythe bythe the syndicate but since then further Investigation of th the urvey urey has baa baab b n made and some ome of Ot the features of the route developed It to Ia that Gut Geat G t Salt lake take has hu hasa hua haa a X r habit habiL of rising riMing feet ft very every few years ye rs and aDd then receding again At the present time it ft is UI low water murk mark For 01 instance the Stan Stans Stansbury bury S in the e Ms Oo showed the h water t to rr bo tO twelve e elna and lW feet deep dep at that of the lake In IMS 1818 the Ute water wa was tw and feet deep dee at the th me place Now it is to i back bock to about it woe was during the Steno Stane Sy bury Consequently an asi embank embankment mont ment sufficient for present needs need might have to b be robed raised fifteen feet higher or orf fen even f more during the coming twenty ears 1118 And at certain stations of the tho thear ther ar r the terrific winds wind sweep over the Ip luk hk at that point sufficient it is to as asserted asserted to derail trains The announcement that Chief thIef Engineer Berry perry had reported unfavorably on the cutoff la is not a surprise ts t those hole with the situation Mr XI Berry In la known to have expressed pd privately privately va tely his opinion that the cutoff across the lake Watt was too expensive to be practicable It has ba boon been understood for some sometime sometime time that in case CH he were asked to pass pase p e expert opinion on the project he be would do so 80 along these those lines lIn if Ie he had not I alady thus reported The decision to build the Southern Pa dOc cub into Salt Lake means liat the Union Pacific will also atoo run through trains Into this thia city over a and the Short Line tracks Su veys have already been made will wItt this in view The route which has met with most favor is the one running run in fro from 1 the mouth of Weber can canyon canyon canyon yon to JL do point on the Short Line Una While lIe this will wilt not nut reduce the mileage so much an s 5 a C cutoff rom roni the vicinity of the engineering problems are arc simple Moreover the scenery of Weber canyon in Is I one of the best advertised features of the he line and It is III thought worth the from the standpoint of passenger er raffle rafn to maintain this route rout at the sac sacrifice sacrifice of keeping up the mileage mU a o some Mme somewhat somewhat what j The cutoff from front the mouth of Weber I canyon as surveyed has easy caay grades the entire distance In connection with the Southern Pacific around the I southern end of tho the lake the present mileage of the conjoined systems will m be greatly reduced and a considerable sav say saving sayIng ing of f time made possible e nh The I exclusive J announcement of the th decision of or E H Harri Harrl riau Viah rIa In faver aver of the Salt Lake tu viled certain ea not difficult d u engineering ee W ns tee s are solved l was received eel with wit many expressions of pleasure by business businessmen men nen and aDd others The i st t informed rail railroad railroad road mad man inn declared that It was ws whet what they had for some time |