Show THE WESTERN PACIFIC salt lake has another railroad d to the coast the completion of the western pacific from salt lake to san francisco and the inauguration of regular passenger service on monday of last week was an event of more than national importance as it has haf a direct bearing on the transportation interests of a vast stretch of country and will give a new and particularly scenic line from this city to tidewater tide water the western pacific which is miles in length is practically an extension of the gould system westward and means that a new factor has entered the field in the distribution of transcontinental trans continental traffic the western pacific connects with the denver rio grande railroad at salt lake so that the gould lines are now continuous from pittsburg and detroit to the pacific coast and with these connections is able abib to supply through freight and passenger service from the atlantic the gu f and the great lakes to san francisco from which point ocean lines will take the traffic to the orient the western pacific is superbly built and superbly equipped from salt lake it stretches out into the desert almost in a beeline bee line for many miles opening up a virgin country that is rich in its resources and possessed of vast possibilities for some distance in nevada it parallels the southern pacific and then shoots off into another heretofore almost inaccessible region which also abounds in mineral wealth and other sources of revenue from beginning to end the grade is rated at the minimum it is perfect in its construction and nothing has been spared in the effort to make it one of the greatest of the trunk lines in the united states of great importance to salt lake is the fact that it will bring into closer relations relation 3 a large number of mining camps which have been practically idle because of lack of transportation facilities the western pacific is here we extend greeting |