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Show GREATESTLPLAN I Western PicificliB Be I tasireded, I An Official Announcement H Comes to the Salt Lake I , General Offices. H Construction to Begin Shortly From Salt Lake, and Line Will Be . Built to the Coast, H Official and positive announce- ment direct from George J. Gould's IH -f- office that the "Western Pacific will 4- be built and work commences 4-shortly. 4-shortly. Road starts from Sixth South and 4- Sixth West in Salt Lako City and 4-4- makes a tangent for the south end -j-4- of Stansbury Island in the Great 4-4- Salt lake. 4- Great union terminal at Salt Lake 4-4- for the Rio Grande and Western jH 4- Pacific. . Freight depot and shops at 4-4- present location. Elegant passen- 4- ger station at Fourth West and 4-4- Third South. 4 ! 4- Salt Lakethe constructing head- 4-4- quarters for the line. The operat- -f-4 ing and traffic headquarters for the 4 4 intermouritain system. Tho point 4r 4- of divergence for all tho lines of 4 4 tho system. f 4- Salt Lake the seventh great ter- 4-4 4-4 mlnal of Gould's through line, plac- 4-4- ing this city on a terminal parity 4 4- with Ealllmore, Pittsburg, Chicago, 4 4- St- Louis, Kansas City, Denver. 4. 4- Tho completion of the first direct 4-4- line from Salt Lake to San Fran- 4 4- Cisco, a lino shorter than any ex- 4--4- Istlng route; a line of lower grades 4-4- and with much lower altitude In 4-4- crossing the Sierras; penetrating 4 4- tho great timber belt of northeast- 4-4 4-4 cm California and ending at the 4-4 4-4 greatest port on the Pacific. 4-44-4-4-44-4-4-4-4-4-444444 H How the News Came. From tho Atlantic to the Pacific; In every office of the Gculd system of railroads, the good news was flashed yes-"torday. yes-"torday. From the cast and the west came the reports and early In the day the facts became talked of In business circles gen-orally. gen-orally. Denver took Jt up and went wild over It; San Francisco sent out the story In high gleo, but In every case the city of Salt Lake took the center of tho stage, as this Is the stragetlc point and when th construction commences. It will be from this point, as material can bo delivered here on the rails of Gould s own road. Local Official Notified. An soon as rumors came that Gould had sent out an official announcement that the road had beon financed and construe-lion construe-lion would begin. Assistant General Freight Agent S. V. Derrah of the Rio Grande lines was visited in his private office and requested to give some sort ot a confirmation of the good news for Salt Lake readers. ' All I can say," graclouslv replied the popular freight man, "Is that I received a telegram today from Vice- IH Prosldent Schlacks In which he gives the IH information that Mr. Jeff cry, acting for the Western Pacific, had Informed him that lie had closed the contracts with three leading bankers; who havo agreed to take tho entire Issue of first mortgage bends of the Western Pacific, and lhat work on the road would shortly begin. ' Mr. Jcffery Is the operating head of the Gould system, the president of tho Den-ver Den-ver & Rio Grande and the vice-president of tho Western Pacific. His office Is with Mr. Gould In New York and his notltlca-tion notltlca-tion through Mr. Schlacks Is the only thing needed to confirm all Western Pa-clfic Pa-clfic rumors. First Announcement From Gould. True, tho announcement Is not news, at loust for Tribuno readers, as no name but Gould has ever been placed behind the Westorn Pacific by tho reports in this pa-por, pa-por, and ten days ago was received abso-lute abso-lute news that tho road would bo built at otico. Howsvcr, this is the first time that an official announcement lias come direct from Mr. Gould and It should be the final IH bullotln to carry great cheer to the pco-pie pco-pie of Salt Lake and that territory lying- jH between hero and San Francisco. At the head of this In paragraph form arc given a few of the great things tho building of tho road means to Salt Lako, They will all bo borne out by the facts and ns time passes the benefits will bo All Work Starts Here. JM In tho first place it has been stated that this city will bo the constructing head- quarters. It has also been rumored that H General Manager Rldgway will move to this city to personally tako charge. When H Iho Lucin cut-off of but 10) miles was B built, It meant something like 2c0,000 a month to Ogden nnd this far greata' IH length of lino to he constructed from Salt IH Lako will mean approximately that much H mcro to Salt Lako and for a longer lime. H Only Distributing- Point. IH Tho reason why Salt Lako will have to bo tho constructing headquarters for H practically the wholo line Is owing to tho H fi.ct that here only can material be do- IB lhored over the own railroads of Mr. IH Gould, whllo at San Francisco tho ma- IH tcrlal would havo to be sent around Cape JM Hern as 110 rates for Western Pacific IH will be published by the Southern Pacific IH or Santa. Fc. But Mr. Gould has his rolls IH from Salt Lako to every big center of the East to New York via tne Mallory line; IH to tho steel mills at Pittsburg and IH Pueblo over his own rails, to tho supply IH centers of the Central Slates from Michl- nan to the Gulf of Mexico, nnd he can IH nnnly tho constructing rate of so much H per ton per mile without asking pennia- IH sion of any corporation or person, lhats H half tho battle won on the start. jH Former News Repeated. H And right here it may be of interest to H repeat some of the Western nciflo novo H found In past issues of The Tribune, but I ail having a mont direct bearing oh the projecui Fix months ago a contract van entered into with the Colorado Fuel and Iron company for 500 miles of steel rails, A S-E. S-E. otandard. Two months ago Virgil C. Bogm-, the great Gould expert engineer went over the rotito and at San Francisco met all the leading contractors of tho country. One month ngo tho announcement was inudo that tho banking llrm of WollaBton. Brown & Co, had received tho contract for tho llscal work of the whole contract which would be let to various grading compnnles. ... ,'Plx weeks ago It was announced that the Wentern Pacific had bought the Boca Lovalton and was after the Ncivadn, California & Oregon, through the latter deMrlng to enter tho Pacific Northwest. Three Pacific Ports. All thoso plana are far-reachlm:, and, t::kcn In connection with the fact that the. Rio Grando will enjoy through traffic arrangements ar-rangements of Its own with tho cinrK road and Is In a poMtlou to build to Low Angeles via its Fremont pass route, Bl-owfl that Gould will duplicate the Har-rlman Har-rlman system and from Salt Lako will radlato In three directions, San FranclBCO and Portland. Gould's Great System. A vear ngo Tho Trlbuno contained an article showing tho system, with the Wcstorn Puclllc. amoui'tlng to closo to 20.C00 miles, reaching all tho important cities of the United States pave Now York. The prlnclpat Gould roads named, starting from tho Atlantic, worn, tho Western Maryland and West Virginia Central, tho Pittsburg & Lake Erie, tho Ann Arbor, tho Wabash, the Missouri Pacific, Pa-cific, Cotton Belt, International & Great Northern. Iron Mountain. Texas p,aclP,c Denver &. Bio Grande, Rio Grando Southern South-ern and Rio Grande Western, or direct lines from tho Atlantic and tho Gulf of Mexico to Salt Lako and Maryovale, Utah, on the West. Bright for Utah. From Maxysvalo it is but a few hundred hun-dred miles to tho Clark road well down into Novada and from Salt Lako to Ban , Francisco tho gap will bo tilled by the Western Pacific Truly tho outlook a bright for Mr. Gould, hut then It Is brighter bright-er to tho people of Utah. Tho building of this road will do more for Utah than any road that has ever been built and that is saying a good deal. E-rr.ct Route Frcm Salt Lake. The exact route from Salt Lako has also been given, but It will bo good reading If repeated. Leaving tho Rio Grando tracks at Sixth South and Sixth West the (survey (sur-vey makes a tangent for the south end or Stansbury island, crotslng the Salt Lako Routo and tho SaltaJr road between Garfield Gar-field and Saltalr. It will bo nearly to tho i site of tho proposed new smelters at tho Point of the Mountain. At Garfield the mhln lino will bo somo hundred foot out In tho lako. No heavy trestling will be squired, as tho water has receded and oven Btanaburv island is. not an Island any longer, but tho south end Is connected con-nected to tho mainland by snow-whlto sand. Ensy Grading. Between tho lakeside mountains and the Stansbury range is a. small depression ' opening to tho Great American desert, the builders of tho tertiary period having cvldcntlv planned this opening for Mr, Gould. It Is like fun, grading through hero and across tho desert will bo Just as casv. except for the lack of water, I which will bo packed In. 1 Heads for Beckwith Pass. , .Straight on to Wlnncmueca, Nov . on I ' tho Southern Pacific tho survey runs, and crossing tho pioneer line, tho road makes lor Beckwith pass. In California tho lino taps Oroville, Marysvllle. Sacramento. ' Stockton and Oakland. Here the com pany has J500.000 In terminal bay front rights and many acres in San Francisco. A ferry will bo established for freight, but the Western Pacific can use tho Southern Pacific passenger ferry, as that ferry la 'a reality owned and controlled by the Stato Board of Harbor Commls-, rloners, so tho Western Pacific will land' ItB passengers at the foot of grand old Market street and Zlnkand'3 will bo that ' much nearer to Its Salt Lake devotees. |