| Show AIR LINE ROAD FROM SALT LAKE LAK LAKI I ants Connection With pier San Pedro Line 4 WOULD TAP RICH HIGH GI s p p D v 1 CHAMBER OF GOK OOst v WORKING f I Denver Der r Times ago in U Salt SIt Lake Like City a ap yli Ten Tell of the San SaIl Pedro Los p ali aIt al Lake railrOad IY refe n wanted A Jounced that Senator Seto Clark H road with an Independent t l For months moat the tile railroad of the country have nave been ar ari I nen i in m opposition to the incursion i th i Tark 1 lark road and the S company has been making a aSt tight fight foi fol old grades in south rous 1 St g st t 1 n I 1 tab tah WiACh had bad been lark ark company by the courts court J JIt 0 It j 15 ed that tt the line Une will wUl be N of ot northwestern em and the people 1 I organised lorado rado a t re making an 11 t secure a railroad connect with Denver because it i Is ia the g them tural trade center for tor foru fortt and they are not deir de tr trl u tt of being obliged to accept the in I l outlet by a road re r reSUlt lt of an nfl I necessarily direct their trade wi 1 rat at point IM HII miles farther awa away Re ReG a have taken steps to inter G the they business men meni and t Den Denver emer T i capitalists movement to aid them in settIng getting i 1 me ne a C will connect with Denver 1 shortest t nd a at tbt tho ame same time form fona the I lines UDell across aero the state ef et eft ett iI j the th WI Vt t tern Mn continent Their e t II ma maY noty be bt successful me Tnt rn chamber eh of commerce has bas recent j I 1 alun Hn n hf hold hId Id of this proposition in I t and is putting forth strong ef efI the people I 1 rt to t meet met the wishes of i tf f r U the country and Middle i li Tark If It successful the movement wiil w I so 30 safeguard the business interests i encroachment Dener en enver r against the eastern astern and Missouri river rier centers territory wh w H by every right be bo bongs benOs bengs nOs to ti Denver U she goes after it Its Great Possibilities W v X B Byers ers who is thoroughly fa with northwestern Colorado and ani andI I rested t heavily ht in Grand county is I warn warm supporter of or o any an movement to that section with the remain tr r of nf the world by rapid i 1 In in fl lints of commerce Asked as 88 to ms his i n o of the prospect for tor a road being J l j tilt ailt and the evenue that would be de deed del l ed b by such a line Mr Byer Byors staid said U lt 1 t would be the most important line Jin tat could be built in this state A Ai i 1 inc ne from Denver Dener through northwestern i lurid would have the shortest mile mUe milet I re e t t salt alt Lake City and the west by byl l d 1 mil miles 3 and would at once become an ani i tant factor in transcontinental 1 1 usines What hat is of ot the greatest I to railroad builders it would j Jae ie a capacity local toca i 1 l greater r than any BY mountain railroad I air am interested largely in Grand Grandi i lint and well w U acquainted with the tae i 1 tent 1 t nt resources of northwestern Colo Cob ColoIa i Ia o in n Grand and Routt counties Just Justs S son s n as service could be established c tr n r such a liar URe a new source of or fuel fUI i supply fapp y would ouid be provided p Anthracite Anthracite t C al il fields target larget than MY any ny open 4 in tn or the west Vest await ait the magic i uch of c f enterprise o operate e as soon H transportation facilities can n be had hadi hado i o move the product to the markets h h valley is the th richest undO und tJ pIne I ned region in Colorado Colora l Capable of ofF r I Ji F rot wealth than thal any 4 other like area I have otten often wondered that a region egton so rich tich In all 11 those se nat natural ural l resources which would insure large forge and constantly con Increasing rev re ng traffic should have so solone lone been left lett remote ote from rom the great arteries of ot commerce The route for the line te is one pre preventing venting enting no great engineering problems and ad I am cert would not be nearly ne so S SeX expensive eX ton ion on as was the building bubbling of most of the Colorado rail ran railways railways ways way while at the tile same saint time a match matchless matchless less Jells territory would be opened up The Theline line Uno would be over over Boulder pass cross crossing ing IllS the range into Middle park travers traver traversing lug ing I Grand Grad county along the th drainage of the Grand river swing north aa and aDil l cross the Gore range at the head of the Muddy Mudd which it would follow to the head bead of ot the h or Bear river Down the valley the road would traverse Routt county from east to west w st and from the head bead of the val valley valley valby ley by would have almost an air line to I Salt Lake Lak City A road from the north Is pushing into that region now If It Denver is to I command the tile trade tre territory which is rightly her own awn a new ne road bringing northwestern Colorado into close loae and rapid communication must be built It ft Itis ItIs is a matter of great importance to this city The business interests interest must re realize reaLlie I alize aLlie that the valuable trade of that territory In our own state nate is only to tobe tobe tobe be held by bIT showing that we want It by building a road which will com corn command mand K L President Wilson Enthusiastic President Pre Wilson of ot the chamber of is deeply concerned in the project to arouse public interest in se as securing curing caring a 8 railroad between Denver ana an Salt Lake City that will open up Routt county and Middle park With the transportation committee of the cham chamber bar ber be he has bas been Baking up matters In connection with this problem for some sometime sometime sometime time timeA A number of parties In Interest coy cov covering co ering the sections to be benefited by bythe bythe bythe the proposed road have called at the chamber said Mr Wilson on From the I interest already areedy manifested I am im impressed impressed I pressed pre ed that the entire district is alive aliveto I Ito to the importance of the enterprise and ani making a more organized and united effort to bring about the building of f a road than at any time in the past They Ther can point to their agricultural and live livestock livestock stock business as an already developed resource re offering o erin traffic which may way be increased many fold when they are arc placed in reach of ot the markets by transportation lines It is a great deal dealto to say but is nevertheless tru true that northwestern Colorado could give a railroad a 8 greater local traffic than is received by b any existing line in the state and deliver the traffic into Den Denver Denver Denver ver over a shortage mileage The line should hould be designed and remain as a 3 Denver institution that would not soon pass into a 8 proposition con controlled controlled trolled by hi the railroad combinations that have secured control of or other Colo Cole Colorado Colora redo rado ra o roads Denv Denver er is not willing filing to I become simply a wa way station on rail rall railroads railroads roads between the east and the west Th The proposition confronting Denver Dener in inthe inthe the transportation proposition is a seri serf serious OtIS oils one and Denver business men must recognize recognise iH its import and act according accordingly II ly 17 |
