Show Jdt > EHu I > I NEW LINE s 8 8 6 FOMBEVER I 11 1 Siit t j h Route Shows Shorter Road G5a 5 by 267 Miles t rlD S WAY BE BUILT THIS YEAR V j I 3 Project Started in Denver which I Looks Like BusinessMiddle Park JleekerWliitG River Route Selected 3 Se-lected Southern Pacific Launch t a Rumored to Have been Sunk in t Lake Union Pacific Former Lake SurveysBig Delegations to Leave for Tort Worth Railroad Notcs Jp4 1 I A V StI TRIBUNE SPECIAL V Denver Colo Jan 11ACter moreS more-S than a years work surveys have been 5O completed for a new line from Denver to Salt Lake < By the routo as surveyed Ssf P sur-veyed the distance between the two cities IH 267 miles less than by any of e the roads yet constructed and the maximum max-imum grade encountered is only 2 percent 5 centS cent-S This Information is based upon careful care-ful and thorough examination of the route to be traVcrscd by the new line y and the plans are pronounced by exports ex-ports to be the most elaborate V ever Pn shown in the West The maps are complete In every detail and It Is p claimed that tho Information concernIng concern-Ing the country through which the route passes Is astonishing even to S Colorado men who thought they were wellinformed as to the resources of L the State The identity of the persons I who have carried forward the enterprise enter-prise Is kept from the public and the I F5 surveys have been accomplished with 1 HO many safeguards that very few outsiders S out-siders have any definite knowledge of an the undertaking Pn According to a wellknown financier V who has looked over the plans the project pro-ject Is perfectly feasible and may be In put Into successful operation during the j i present year The syndicate having l p charge of the preliminaries Is now V ready to present the plans to Eastern I Investors and to show that the business l busi-ness passing to and from the Paclllo p roast on account of Increasing Oriental a trade and tho new trafllc which may E bo expected on account of opening up virgin territory will Insure good returns 41 re-turns from the Investment The line I will pass through one of the largo I mountain parks which lie in the center of the range and will tap the rich coal deposits of northwestern Colorado It will pass through the Indian lands of northern Utah and It is understood that a movement Is now on foot in Washington for action by Congress to V have the lands thrown open for settlement V settle-ment The northern Utah region is paid to he the richest agricultural and mineral spot now unoccupied on the S American continent The Burlington company has given the projectors of the line an option on the old grade of the Burlington on the Blue and Grand I m rivers The entrance to the mountains from the eastern side Is effected through one of the canyons north of I Boulder j |