Show RAILROAD PROJECT DIES One Oae 0 Plan Eor Bor or Lake Road Is Abandoned A One of the projects project for Cor a railroad between Denver Deaver and Salt Lake rAke has ha I Ig gone g wrong g and there Um is 18 little present prospect that it will be revived This i is the extension of the Ute Colorado Northwestern not the Denver North Northwestern Northwestern I western Pacific P enterprise e of D H Moffat but The Switzerland Switz rland Trail Trait owned principally in Pennsylvania The application n for tor a receiver for Cor the road for the present effectually disposes of the proportion prop to ti build bUI c a a Denver Denar I Salt Lake short bort t which Colonel ColonelS S B Dick of Meadville Pa the vice Vlee pres pros president ident said would be done I The Switzerland Trail ATrall was wa built In 1880 1110 as the first section of a line Une to torun torun run from Denver DenvOr to Salt lit Lake and then on to the Pacific coast It wa was I tailed called the Greeley Salt Lake Pacific and Was was owned by the tte Union Pacific The road now runs from Boulder Cob Colo to Ward Colo Cole a distance of or twentysix miles It was first drat built from Boulder to Sunset thirteen miles mile The road abounds bounds in steep grades and sharp I curves some of the grades being Hing as high as i 5 per cent nt At Bald mountain i il l lit I It takes seven seen miles of track to climb i I of a mile mUe At the sum summit sumI summit mit of Culbertson Culbert on pass pan seven leven tracks tan cat catbe j I be seen at one time The Te road runs un its It I entire distance through gh an extremely ex tiem ely picturesque que country coUnti II When the Ul Colorado Southern was organized organised to take over part e of the Union Pacific the little road became a part of the Colorado Southern In Inthe UK the whole road was washed away by b floods and abandoned a The Colo Cobo Colorado i rado rdo A Northwestern company ny was or 01 organised among Pennsylvania capital j isis who wix took possession pos of the right l of way and built the present road from I Boulder to Ward hoping to open up enough mining cou to make the property pay They were wate w ie disappointed in this No interest on the bonds has been paid since inee 1357 and aDd the Interest due duenow now amounts to It is isI ex ox expected peeled that an order for the sale of or orth I the th road under foreclosure proceedings Will HI m be Ite made next week neek The officials of the t road d have been I talking for some time tIis U of ef i through to Salt Lake Laker and sot Rot long ago stated that they had made arrange arrangements meats ments to do so This Th was W before the announcement of D H MOffat that he I intended to build a road n the t two cities cUle |