Salt Lake Times | 1890-10-28 | Page 2 | Colorado, Utah & Pacific |

Type	issue
Date	1890-10-28
Paper	Salt Lake Times
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
ARK	ark:/87278/s6dj9h28
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6dj9h28

Article Title	Colorado, Utah & Pacific
Type	article
Date	1890-10-28
Paper	Salt Lake Times
Page	2
OCR Text	Show COLORADO, UTAH PACIFIC. The New Road Claims to Have 820,000,000 Back of It. Chicago, Oct. 28. The morning's paper says; James McLean, president of the Colorado, Utah & Pacific railway, arranged with the Manhattan Trust Co. to get finacial aid in building a new road from Denver to Salt Lake city. The projected road will run from Denver Den-ver to Boulder and cross the continental continen-tal divide at Buchannan's Pass, running through the Middle park, thence to Steamboat springs and over the range to Green river, Provo and Salt Lake. The length of road from Denver Den-ver to Salt Lake will be 440 miles, which is 286 miles shorter than the Denver and Bio Grande. The Colorado, Col-orado, Utah and Pacifio claims to have about K20.000.000 back of it. There will be a tunnel 8000 feet long "on the projected line just before tho Middle Park is reached. The tunnel will go through a high mountain and be an expensive ex-pensive pieoe of engineering. .
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6dj9h28/13193421