Show RAILROAD OUTLOOK Dail Daily Salt Lake papers alers arriving Tuesday y contained interviews from Kingdom Gould vice president of the Denver Rio Hio Grande that in view of ot the Ves Western ern Pacific entanglement lent the Uintah branch would not be built buiU u t for another year or so l Mr r. r Gould stated that his road at this time was unable curable to find d the money for the Uintah extension and other improvements ments badly adly needed eded The fact that the D D. D R R. G. G will I not riot commence building this year does not necessarily mean however that I no railroad construction will begin In another column of this weeks week's I Record is a statement from H. H C. C I I Nu Nutt tt general manager of the Salt Lake Route that surveyors will soon I be in the field and that if tr it is found a road into the basin would be a paying flaying investment it will be built and that there is sufficient money on hand to complete its construction The fhe Salt Lake Route occupies a vastly different situation to the Uin- Uin ah basin than does the Denver andRio and andRio Rio Hlo Grande The reason for the he latter latter latter lat lat- lat lat- ter building would would be to keep any other out of f the fiel field It now absolutely controls this territory from a freight freigh and passenger er stand stand- point The Salt LaKe Route Houte on theother the Ule other hand is desperately in need of coal which it now gets from the Carbon Carbon Carbon Car Car- CarI I bon county field through the D. D I R. R G. G The general impre impression sion is that the 1 Salt Lake Route 48 per ler cent of I which stock is own owned d by y the Union 1 Pacific when it does begin building will wili never stop in the Uintah basin basi but will continue e construction eastward eastward eastward east east- ward and connect with the U. U P mainline mainline main mainline line either through through- the Moffat road or the Laramie Ha Hahns teak ak 1 Pa Ta- Pacific Pacific a subs subsidiary company o op p ny t to the e U. U P. P A straight line on the map p lJ Between Be lle- tween Provo Uta Utah l l and n i Wyo COil conforms forms very closely to tl the e natural water grades of northeast northeastern ern Utah and northwestern Co Colo Coto o- o it rado There is not now operating in the V West st a railroad line Une that would be ue beso lieso so rl rich h in resources for immense tonnage as a route between Provo and Laramie After leaving the fruit of Utah county but a comparatively short distance would put it into the We immense forests and coal deposits of oC the wasatch range and und into the midst o of the sheep and cattle industries industries industries indus indus- I tries of Wasatch and Duchesne CO coun coun- ties A few miles further e st rd l i commences the G agricultural urea v.-ea th tit I j of the Uintah basin and this woul would wouW I continue for a hundred miles CO connecting connecting con con- l- l with the cattle country of f northwestern Colorado and again I reaching coal the magnificent deposits deposits deposits de de- de- de posits of Moffat and Routt butt counties Along long the fertile valle valley of the Yampa river and up the Elk river such a road W would ld pass through one of C Colorado's Colorados Colorados Colorado's Col Col- l- l orado's richest and best developed sections and plunge into forests and mineral deposits between Routt cottay coun- coun y and Laramie the vastness and anti rich richness richness richness ness of either being almost beyond imagination 0 0 |