Show io Attraction Attention 1 i The Railway Joe thus speaks of the prost pros-t posed road along the Colorado river to er eii southern California A railway along 01 the Grand Cnfion of the Colorado river re whose walls in some places rise thousands at of feet above tue water is the most striking e1 of the numerous projects of the year C Among the advantages claimed by the projectors 1 pro-jectors are that the grade will be only about live feet to the mile compared with grades in of seventyfive to one hundred feet which It other railways to the Paciiic coast have to pl encounter that the road will open up the greatest scenic route in the world will develop F 0 de-velop a country possessed of inexhaustible ce inexhausti-ble deposits of the base and precious metals stone HInt salt juiiai3 > aim 11IL an log lands will have no snow to trouble it q av and will have water runiiiiifr pastE past-E every foot of it that all freights will be delivered to it on a down grade and fj that no road can parallel it within several tw hundred miles on the east or west With these and other advantages claimed the proposed pro-posed Denver Colorado Canon Pacific to railroad enterprise certainly has unusual d claims to attention The road is projected I r to run from near Grand Tunction in western t west-ern Colorado to San Diego on the California Cali-fornia coast a distance stated at 1050 fa miles of which about two hundred miles j lie in the Grand canton It is said that nF not more than u score of people have ever Isl gone through the can on several lives e having been lost in the attempt and the Ih question whether a railroad could be built sh there even if the money were forthcoming ter has yet to be solved |