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Show A SHADOW ON THE R.G.W. An Omnhn View of the Latest Railway Scheme Bora in Oaflen. The Oinaliii lice says: "Oifden 1ms finished fin-ished nil paper a projeel which easts a shad w ou the threatened Kin (.ramie extension trotn Sail Lake City to tho coast. It is kuowu as the Ogden A: San Francisco Short Line. Local and foreign capital is said to lie interested. The route is all surveyed. It is to cross (ireat Suit Lake a few miles west of Ogdcn, thence across the American desert, des-ert, tlirouifh the Sierra Nevada !y tunnels and on the coast. "The first 100 miles out Ogdcn trill he a perfect air line, gaining sivly-eighl miles over the present line from Ogdcn to Loray, a point on the Southern Pacific. When construction con-struction work lieeins on Salt lake, heavy timber for piles will he forwarded from Ore-iron Ore-iron via the Oregon Short Line. These will he delivered at the lake shore where steam 1 urges eonsti in ted f..r Ihe purpose ill receive re-ceive them and the work of driving will he-gin he-gin hy means of pile-drivers attached to the barges. In this way the line across the cast arm of tho lake to Promontory will he constructed, con-structed, n distance of live and one-qtHl'tCf miles, and Hat, ears loaded with drift and stone from Little Kound mountain will he constantly kepi busy dumping into the lake until u causeway is huilt to Promontory point. Passageways will be left open ut regular intervals in this great causeway to allow passage for the Bear river currents into the south side of the lake. The dyke w ill he of sullicielit width to allow a doulilc track being laid the entire way across. l'ruiu Promontory .westward to the far shore, a distanc e of twenty-ono mihs, the same method will be pursued in the construction, con-struction, and when flnishid the work will ! one of the most substantial and stttpen dons mi Ihe American continent. The mimes of those who are to furnish the money to build this new line, to the coast will not he divulged at present. Beyond the assurance that the roail will he constructed nothing can he learned a to the financial hacking. Several of Ogdcn's leading citizens citi-zens w ho are on the inside of the deal assert that it is n sure go. |