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Show BURLINGTON TO EXTEND LINES Preparing- to Build New Roads Through Utah and Wyoming, Extending to Salt LaKe Soon. The 'Burlington continues to increase its lines in Wyoming and Utah. Lines will be run from Guernsey to Lander and from Cody thence to Salt Lake, where it will connect with the Dedver & Bio Grande " and Western - Pacific which is now under construction. Bights of way have been secured for the extension of the Cody and the Guernsey branches .to Lander. The eon-tracts eon-tracts will be. prepared and let immediately. imme-diately. The Cody, branch will pass through the cattle country centered about Meeteetse and the sheep industry near Lander " - The farming in the Big Hole and Jackson Hole " section will easily be accessible. The Guernsey branch will draw from Cheyenne and other Union Pacific territory, of which this is the eenter. . This has long been under consideration. considera-tion. Manv surveys have been made and the advisibility of taking either of several routes has been argued.' It was thought, that the Cody line would run west of the Wind Eiver range of mountains passing directly through the Jackson Hole country from which a branch would be run to the southeast corner of th National reserve.. This nrnwt however, has been abandoned and the,direct line has been decided upon, up-on, -i This, will pass through Meeteetse, Kirwin to Lander. -. . - Herehe line will be joined by the Guernsey branch which passes through Hartville Junction, Shirley, Alcova and Myersville. - This will then run in a southwesterly direction through the Sweetwater Canyon and the Piney Pass of the Wind River range to Green River, Wyo. . Thence the line will extend ex-tend to Salt Lake by way of Green canyon, Hardserabble, crossing the Weber and into Fannington. ; The line will reach the rich level countrv east and north of Salt Lake. Little is known of this district because it is so out of the way from a railroad. It offers otie of the best sheep and cattle cat-tle graxing districts in the West. Only a few herds wander this far and the land is comnaratively'new. . Definite arrangements will be forthcoming forth-coming within a few days of the proposed pro-posed line. ' |