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Show Says iir:i-Jof fat iii IriterviWith leie-1 leie-1 C t2ik: t aii iiv D cnyci Expects to D ctif SHiie Western Pccific Into Salt Lake; VM Will Be tlusUed.: - A ' ' ' .'' v.." (Special to .The Telegram.) 1- .'"'- i.,'. ,Vr Ths Moffat railroad from Denver to Salt Lake is certainty. David : H. Moffat pledges his word to the people -of Salt Lake that laal.de of two v years the new line win be completed anil ; Li operation, and that Dearer wil be ten hoars nearer Salt Lake. ' O ne hundred and twenty-aeven miles . fcarle been, built,1 and the work of con structlon is being poshed to the Utah linJh-Tfcs Western Pac&c is a certain ty but there has been some question , In the minds of many as to the exact status of th Moffat line situation. . . required time to build a mountain 'railroad 'rail-road with great tunnels under , the hills,' but 'he was confident that through trains would be running in two years.'-:. . "; .'.- To-Seat Western Padfic f , , ' While Mr. Moffat did not so state," It Is known here that his ginger is up and that he plans to beat the Western Pk-clflc Pk-clflc Into Salt Lake. : " ' - A Moffat engineer who' has been over the - route, said today that, the territory which wlQ be opened by the I new. road embraced some of the richest rich-est mineral;, agricultural and graslng lands in the world. And Salt ' Lake will be the great distributing point. ELLIOTT KELLT. Jt was to remove thls doubt and es-labllah es-labllah beyond -any Question hefact that two : great railroads, each .of Hrhich wiU tap rIfli :Tlrin territory. mil be bunt Into Salt Lake that ' X called on Mr.. Moffat today. ', . . -. David H. Moffat Is Denver's big man. He is to Denver-what J. P, Morgan Is to New ''York and even more, for to criticise David H. Moffat In Denver la 'f to be guilty of lese maJeste.'Mr. Moffat Mof-fat U president of the First National bank, which has the distinction of carrying-more individual accounts than any national bank in the United 8tate& He Is getting along in years and purposes to make the Moffat road Jjis monument. If you could bear Mr. rriioffat talk you would become, "con- r vinced of the building of. the line to Salt Lake!. " " ' ""'.'.'.'-.. - , Will PositiTely Bs uiltr AX-,;.V . I Mr. Moffat states positively that . It wiJl -be. built. -There Is -no rf)ueat!nof U. he says. Every dollar of the cost Is ready. An army of workmen is push-" push-" ing the jroad, towhrd Utah. Bait XAke i has.. not a more enthusiastic .admirer : than Mr. Moffat. - He- believes In the i city's future. ' It will be a great city, he ' says. I asked bim these questions: - Will Extend to Salt Lake. : . ' "Will .the ' Moffat line - be extended Into Utah and will it be built to Salt t Lake Ctty?" v . - . . '-. "Tes.'' , ' . "-': .' - -j Tben will actual work on the Utah "part be 'started and when should the line be in operation' from Denver to -Bait Lake City T' -y. Jh Salt Lake in Two Tears. . , . "Xs soon as eastern division reaches Utah line. Expect to reach Salt Lake 1 Jn two years." -. ' ' . " "How -far is line now completed and ! what will be the route into Utah?". - -"One ; hundred . and twenty-seven miles now completed. Route into Utah will be determined by surveys.". . 1W111 It be operated in connection with the Gould line or as an independent inde-pendent liner ' " - 'Independent."' ' "What- reductien in passenger time between Denver and Salt Lake , City will be madef 'Tn hours.". - ' ". s ' . Or4 Bio Grande i Eouta. ; ; Tle road wjli.be .buUt. directly Into IfCTA Lake City. - It will not tap the "Rio brands at Marysvale and run into Salt Lake over the Rio Grande as has been published. -but; Mr. Moffat says ' the western terminal will be Salt Lake t City. Mr. Moffat explained that it |