Show UABOIOTH LAKE RESORT Feature of Southern Pacific CutOff Across the Salty Sea But little has been said of the resort feature of the Southern Pacific cutoft across the Great Salt lake The company com-pany purposes to erect on the Promontory Promon-tory a sanitarium bathing resort and hotel which it is said will eclipse anything any-thing In the Jntermountain region One thing tho Southern Pacific has done fOt the coast Is tho building up of pleasure resorts and Del Monte Castle Crags I Tavern and other places only need be cited In this respect It has always been V argued that the Hot Springs above Salt II I Lake City and the Great Salt lake itself it-self would yet become the scenes of worldfamous sanitariums The former Is traversed by three railroads the Rio Grande Western the Oregon Short Line and tho Salt Lake Ogden but all at tempts heretofore to build up the place have failed Tho lake is accessible to all Utah systems but it remains for the Southern Pacific to take tho first step toward erecting on UN shore a hotel and resort on the lines named It Is another great projeot and combined with the cutoff across tho lake will bo a gigantic gi-gantic improvement and give the Southern South-ern Pacific a hold upon travelers through Utah that othet roads will realize Is a formidable one i Tho Promontory juts into the lake and as told the new road uses two miles of its shore on which to build a grade for the now lino a twomile break in trestle The company is buy Ing UP all tho available land on the Promontory for the resort to be built there What has been accomplished bv the passenger department for California 1 resorts can be duplicated here I More of Lake CutOff V The Ogdon Standard says of the cut off The work on this short line of the Southern Pacific is greater than could be fully set forth In one article It begins at Ogden City and at the brldgo over tho Ogden river tho short line leaves the old route and cuts across toward the lake The lake Is spanned by a trestle to the Promontory to which tho road clings for about two miles and then it shoots its two ribbons of steel across nineteen and a half miles of salt water the greatest inland sea In the world a niojy beautiful stretch of water placid and deep Here will be erected a steel truss bridge upon piling driven Into the water and sand the water sometimes thirtyfive feet deep and the bridge to bo nineteen miles loiiETa marvel of engineering skill which runs to Strongs Knob From hero to Lttcln where the new road connects with the old Is a distance of sixtyone miles In this cut from Ogden to Lucln the Southern Pacific has actually saved more than the mean tired distance between the two points by the old route The distance from Ogden to Lucln by the Southern Pacific route today Is 145 miles The actual Haulm distance between the two points after ejaculating distance lost by gradients is 2Cii miles That is the same energy time and expense are necessary to haul a ton of freight or a passenger over tho 145 miles distance as would haul the samo freight over 202 miles of level track The actual distance from Ogden to Lucia bv the cutoff Js 100 miles and the grades are I at no time greater than four feet to the mile or almost level it is therefore estimated that In energy time and cx 1ense Uio saving by the cutoff will be 162 miles First Train from Frisco San Francisco CaL July 1Thc first through eastbound train on the new Santa Fe route to Chicago pulled out oC the depot lt Point Richmond across the bay from this city at 11 clock this morning It carried a large number of passengers most of whom were destined for Stockton and other points In this State The pas sengers and baggage were transferred across the bay In the ferryboat Ocean Wave II General Manager Schlacks Charles H Schlacks is now general manager the Colorado Midland and It is Interesting to note that he Is ono of the youngest men In the country holding a similar title on a road of tho slzo or the Midland Ho was born in Chicago in 1SG3 and at the ago of 11 entered railway service as office boy with the Illinois Central That was In 1870 just twentyone years ago and is a mighty quick Jump even In railroad work V Railroad Notes The Hallway Age estimates that the United Stales mileage at the end of 1300 will ba 106000 1 TIle B Of L E and 0 R c < both V L 4 11 T have ladles auxiliary orders The brotherhood men find that the women are u great help to them in their lodge work and sociability Schnectady switcher fo 21 of the Western Js giving the laugh to the set gut engines like 12 and 3 liven 133 is slow when compared to the new sprinter sprint-er The engine Is now in service Edward Wilder secretary and treasurer treas-urer of the Santa Fo with headquarters headquar-ters at Topeka Kan arrived on the Short Lino lost night in a private car Uc will remain here several days with his family being on IL pleasure trip The Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Pa-cific will each spend 5000000 for cutoffs 1 cut-offs and Improvements In Utah and I Wyoming Tile Oregon Short Line and J I Rio Grande Western will expend 2000 000 each during the next year All this I I money will be circulated in the intermountain inter-mountain States The railroads arc I going to do their share toward making the West prosperous The Railway Age shows that 1C54 miles of new track were laid in the United States during the first half of tho present year Utah Is one of eight Suites with no new mileage reported Tho year however Avlll not be blank First comes the lar sale extension with ponslblo line to Cedar Cutoffg and line changes arc not Included in these tables by the Age If they were Utah would be up near the front |