Show Two Hundred Miles Saved Between Salt Lake and Denver A big railroad scheme with millions to back it is said to be on foot for a transcon tinentaLshort line from New York to the Pacific tJ The enterprise is in the hands of a body of English capitalists and American railroad men The syndicate has been secretly at work for a long time From Leavenworth to Denver the route surveyed sur-veyed two years ago and known as the Denver Short Line and more recently as the Leavenworth Denver S Utah Short Line will be used This survey is eighty miles shorter than any of the existing lines of railroad now running into Denver Prom Denver to Salt Lake by the continuation continua-tion of this survey 200 miles is saved The Denver Short Line survey lies north of Toneka and Manhattan Kan and runs midway between the Omaha Union Pacific Pa-cific and the Kansas Union Pacific through a rise of territory hitherto untouched un-touched by railroads or roadfeeders The prime object of the scheme however is to shorten time and distance between the Atlantic and Pacific railroads |