Salt Lake Herald | 1900-10-16 | Page 5 | May Standard-Gauge Road

1 MM ROAD TA OP OF 9 01 ON TE GARFIELD BRANCH BRACH BRACHO S Officials O ci S Do I Not ot Want W t to Buy uy More g Narow Gauge lauge Equipment S L May y Pass as to Pacific Coast Coat Line LineIn Lie LineIn In order to avoid the purchase of new narrow gauge equipment for the 1 and Tooele branch of the th Short Line LI e the tle officials of the tl company 00 mp any it Is i asserted qs rte have have concluded c cud d to lay laythe rUte the Hie third rail ran making the road stand standard ard sauge from Salt Lake Lae to the terminus ter terminus terminus minus U miles Officials of the th company co pany recently rec went w nt over the course ourse and inspected the road ad bed thoroughly The large num number nu ber of new ne ties that have been put in recently will wi make the work comparatively easy and there therl Is i a probability of the extension of or the te line Une to develop the Stockton mining region Those ose oh on the he Inside regon profess that the theline theline line lne will win no sooner have been broad brad gauged Si lcd than negotiations for Its is pur purchase purchase chase cha and the purchase of Garfield beach beitch will wU be opened by b the Clark peo jle with wih a view to making m king it i a part pat of oC the he Los Ls Angeles Salt Sal Lake line lne In fact it i has been argued arged all along that Garfield Ga field was wa the thereal real place for a tourist hotel otel and that one is to be erected on the lake seems to be a settled fact fact This will in no 0 wise MISO is Interfere with wih the pur par purchase purchase chase of but should the Gar Garfield Garfield field deal go through the big pavilion will m be operated as at present