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Show SALT LAKE'S BAILh7AD FUTURE, The Denver News is authority for the statement that the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul intends to extend its line from the Missouri river, to that eity, within cightecu months. The Rock Island is also to have a line of its own to Denver. This is good uews for Salt Lake, for it is a sure thing that if these roads build to Denver, they will eventually event-ually come to Salt Lake City, and that too, sooner thau a great many people would expect. , The Chicago, Burlington Burling-ton & Quiucy will also build to this city. That Salt Lake will soon become a great railroad center there seems to be but little doubt.- The Chicago, Milwaukee Mil-waukee & St, Paul has already graded its track to Albion, Neb., 200 miles from Sioux City. Regarding this extension the Denver News says; Albion, t he polut to which tlio grading has beea finished,. Is mi a direct line as the crow would fly from Denver to Sioux City, and as a further evidence that the road will soon be In Donver is the fact that the line has been surveyed sur-veyed to the Colorado Hue, a distance of 'M miles. Had the projector of the Sioux City Short Hue Intended to build to Cheyenne, they could have saved fully seventy miles by lcav -lug Albion to the south. No sane man will believe be-lieve for a momeut that a proposed transcontinental transcon-tinental line would deflect from a direct course to reach such au unimportant polut as Albion. |