Show N SALT LAKE COUNTY n Southern Pacific Crossed the I i Line Yesterday I ITO I l TO REACH CITY THIS WEEK Transit Last Night Pointed to Salt Lake and Survey Will Be Finished in a Few Days Have Secured a Splendid Line All the WayBetter Than Trestle CutOff or North Linv pnraiiel Short Line and Better Bet-ter It Into CityStrikes About First South Street Railroad Notes II I I The locating party or the Southern I Pacific crossed the line Into Salt Lake county yesterday and ran the tangents toward this city A Tribune man was on hand and crossed the Rubicon with the transit and level men The engineers are still I camped at Weirs but they will move the camp Into Salt Lake by the end i of the week when the line will he finished t and all that remains will be the preliminary work surrounding the entrance to Salt Lake and trackage surveys with connections Principal l Assistant Engineer Glllctt of the Southern Pacific Is In from San Francisco lie went out to the camp at Weir yesterday morning to remain several days in consultation with Engineer En-gineer D D Griffiths who as previously previous-ly mentioned Is In charge of the party and Is a delightful man to meet J R Graham is the transitman and F E Frey the levelman both being bright young engineers Others in the party are from California and Utah and It is well equipped In every way The party entered the field on April 1st to run the lines for the south shore cutoft and has been in the field ever since The Tribune has previously given nil details about the lines run across the desert via Strongs Knob and the Wrathall pass route also the work done 4 at Lake Point PARALLELS SHORT LINE At Garfield the slakes are set a little lit-tle south of the Oregon Short Line track and continues on toward this city in the same general line At the rise at Kesslers ranch the line will cut the hill loer down than the Short Line and then make a bee line for Salt Lake to strike this city at a point about West First South street This will give It accessible connection with existing roads and make the best line f of any between Garfield and the city The engineers naturally will not say what will be done In the way of building J build-ing the line That Is a question for the officers and directors to decide There Is no doubt at all however that the survey is nearly completed to Salt Lake and that the Southern Pacific party In the four months It has been In the field has run several lines with the result that a splendid line has been a located one that will do away with the grades and curves ofthe Promontory Promon-tory lino and will be far superior to the trestlo line and lastly will give the Southern Pacific an entrance to Salt Lake which It so greatly desires SCENIC LINE OF BEAUTY From a scenlo standpoint also the line would be a perfect revelation It skirts the Great Salt lako on Its most 1 attractive sides the rockbound coast and the sandy beach on the west and the beach along the south with a constant con-stant view of blue and sliver water shimmering In the sun and out of which rise majestic mountains and as the sun rises or declines the shadows cast by the mountains are ever chang ing making a perfect kaleidoscopic view and one which never grows tiring For a few miles walking along with the surveyors yesterday morning a glimpse of this vIew was Inspiring To tho rear rose Stansbury island backed by the ranges fringing the lake The mountains behind Garfield had on their brightest dress and fairly glowed with life and color The olhar nearby Islands rose like mountains of green from a placid field oC blue At the j left within stones throw was Garfield Gar-field with its pretty colors a few bathers and a couple of rowboat occupying oc-cupying the center of the picture Here t was Black Hock and the pioneer cottages j cot-tages and on the edge of tho rock a dainty little sloop Is being built In front Is Kesslers ranch a bunch of trees with lucerne fields and cattle placidly nooning To the left ahead Is Saltalr from out of whose mln arettqd profile bursts out a tiny sail boat At the Salt works two trains are at work and the smoke of commercial r com-mercial life appears Ascending the Ball ut Kcsslers can be secured the first glimpse of Salt Lake a dim out line of foliage and streets the Temple spites and other structures K was at this ridge that the engineers engi-neers quit work yesterday their transit tran-sit hearing upon the business center of the city wherein a warm welcome Is being nursed for the vanguard of the Southern Pacific |