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Show Line to Be Built Into Provo as Soon as It Can Be Properly Financed. EXPECTS TRACKAGE RIGHT PROVO TO METROPOLIS David H. Moffat Talks Hopefully Hopeful-ly of Plans for the New Line. Srocial to Tho Tribune. NEW YORK. Sept. 20. David II. Mofi'at, who is in New York on business connected with the Denver Union Water company, and the Denver, Northwestern North-western St Pacific railway, says that as soon as financial arrangements can bo made tho railroad will bo completed to Salt Jjako Oily and the tunnel constructed con-structed through tho continental divide. di-vide. Any arrangements that Mr. Moffat enters en-ters into for securing capital for tho completion of the road will include the financing of the tunnel construction and tho laying of a branch Hue to connect with the Denver St Mo Grande at Dot-sp.ro, Dot-sp.ro, about seventy-five miles northwest of Lcadville. At present tho road is completed to Steamboat Springs, 210 miles from Denver. Den-ver. Its cost, including equipment, was approximately $13,000,000, or about $00,000 a mile. Cost of constructing tho remaining :1G0 miles will bo about half that per mile, as there aro no nioro mountains to cross. The survoys havo all been completed to Provo, the route following down the i.ear river valley in nortliwostorn Colorado and up tho Du-chesna Du-chesna valley in Utah. Mr. Moffat expects ex-pects to arrange for trackage rights from Provo into Salt Lake City. Tho coat of tho tunnel has been estimated at between $5,000,000 nnd $6,000,000. "This is the greatest railroad proposition propo-sition in the world today," said Mr. Mofi'at. Any ono who talks with him about il cau see thai he lms an ambition to carry it to completion. He also realizes that "his road will bo of great value as a connecting link across the backbone of tho continent for some of the large systoms. "You can say I hat tho road has uo entaiigliug alliances or agreements with any trunk line," lie said. "If 1 should part with it after it is completed. I would rather it would bo to either tho Rock Island or the Burlington." |