Salt Lake Herald | 1901-03-24 | Page 6 | Will Spend Three Millions in Utah

1 THREE IN UTAH f Southern rn Pacific P Cutoff to be beu u H at Once HOLES LESOF N WR SALT LAX LAKE t i COMPANY WILL WIIL Cf 7 BUILD inns INE I ISan f San Sn Fran Francisco i Joo March M 23 Fully miles of ot WIG the central Pacific from irom Og Ogden Ogden Ogden den wet west wat to Lu over the Kelton und and nd Promontory mountains are aN to be aban abandoned aan I i and a n new road or miles long built bt lt Surveys aurey for the new newline ne ne neline line have been boen completed and approved approve and President C M Hayes Is 18 to order 1 the b pf jr construction early next month The cutoff will wl cost ost over ov r 1 Besides it saving In distance of forty one ne trifles the tho new line Une will be practically p Uc ally aIly tree Cree from curves and have hove no grades in excess of of f 1 per cent ont It I will wn cross the upper endor end endor or of Great Gr st Salt alt lake in two t places p ce The hc corporation which is to o build this thia thi cutoff cutt Wa iva organized in n Salt Lake i last spring with wih R C Chambers as 8 a president t George Gere Brastow secretary George M 1 Downey treasurer and John I K p Dooly as a the other member of or the j I hoard bord ot of directors The company Is t known as the Ogden Lucin Rail flail Railroad Rai road company jl Its It purpose is to build across the lake lae from Ogden to 10 Promontory point pint skirt 1 Ing that tha neck nek of land anti and nn then jump f ing Ing the lake again gin to t i i point opposite o Lucin which is near the tle da a line More than thirty miles of or mies j 1 tr te will wi be required rhe The great advantage nd of f the te cutoff T aside nie from fr the he saving in distance re ferr d o 0 in the te Press Pres dis dh dispatch patch is the doing MY with wih the steep prades gade grades east et and west of Promontory 1 mil bill hi At present an ordinary passenger train two engines to pull it i over oer and freight trains mins take I three engines engine This necessitates the keeping of helper locomotives at Promontory Prom Promontory I which WIll IU be done one away aw with When Won the new line Une is completed The TheY work i L not nol to be he done by the Central Pacific direct in order to avoid possible legal complications In the old lays days When en the government practically owned the te line it Ita was wa customary to organize organise e straw companies to build ex cx tensions tensions although to all aU actual intents intent and purposes the th extensions were real ly parts par of or the ta Central Pacific These straw companies were formed fored on the theory that the te extensions might re main outside ot of any foreclosure ot pro the government might at tempt tempt The same ame me policy Is Js being car ried ned out in Jn the present Instance