Show R K H 0 A U NEWS interesting INTE Is he lart hahns peah and PC P clila cai iu headed in this direction coliat giles out interview elview Int intel view in new yeii yerk proposed Props sed Electr eleew ls railway raba through the uintah mali min basin not fa months haz has there been so much news nes flying about the to le sure the readers of the express havo have beefs nauseated wit that olasa blass of at laews one day and with the next and aind the result Is that but little cre credence lence Is gi given gien en whon papers come out with scare headlines about this or the other railroad project one thing Is certain thil is too vast bast anti and rich a country to ieman inucci longer angor without proper railroad facilities whether it la Is the moffat the the union pacific the rock inland fiand or electric line the toot of the whistle is sute sure to 0 echo through cannon and gorge and over basin and bench before many years aiom the union pacific cm the north to the denver rio grand on the south Is rv a iott stretch toh of miles of country whose mountain eide and river bottoms are impregnated with precious metals hydrocarbons and oil and whose valleys and smooth tc pod ped benches are rich in fertility aall aamir thousands of cattle sheep and h horses cotses are fattening on t ranges the steel rail must eoon gilt ter in the sunshine aind aad the smelt of the imo locomotive motive must soon be seer eer curling and aw away v in the dl dis tence as the manater I 1 rn horse plunges onward that thero there is some truth to ito reports now lin ila seems reasonable seeing Is believing it is true that the larimie La hahns peak pacific railway is now rapidly pushing its construction from wamsutter sutter wyoming towards steamboat springs the cicet recent news from that field Is that the road has bas been bean finished for a distance of 48 milos miles and that the contract for the remaining distance has been let will this road stop at steamboat the ct cost of construction cons and equip mant maat will be enor enormous mons would the traffic for thit that short distame ce be sufficient to justify the big outlay Is it the intention of the company to forge on vioet obaid after reaching mg steamboat these are some of the questions being P lied ked people who claim to have hane had inside information declare that this road read which la Is really backed by the union n pacific Is coming bestard we west feard the new emple a monthly publication issued by the L 11 P and P hy company vader hinder the heading headin alory of the railroad has this to say eay ea y in III the september number when tho the jaramio La ramio bahna peak pacific railway was projected it was planned simply to construct a narrow gauge railroad to serve sene the gold and coppe mines of southern before A rail was aas laid bustnes 3 dev eloped which necessitated the construction of a standard gauge rova ro va investigation of 0 the timber land or oe the medicine bow mountain and development develop mont of the coal fields of north park called tor for its ext extension ancion into IMO the rich fields of resources as ai quickly as possible with tl this 11 ll line ino decided upon the gateway garew ay by low grades and short dis to all that on derf country beyond bekc nd in northwestern tern colorado and eastern butth was nas op opened enet and after a personal investigation of cf the terri tory the plans ot of the company were made to open up this whole aholo rich ceccon by a comprehensive system of local road nov the 10 will this thia rt be extent extended led on hito this country and to salt lake it has long icing been a a saying in this valley that the unini pacific will voll bethe first road to reach out hero here alo pennsylvania and ohio maita aniio wore in the basin bashi rec otly inspecting their hydrocarbon nal to tg provo prova they wore ora surprised ed looked over the dif different terent pos possible for an electric line from ver to find so many ideal po power poet et bites when they wont went away from here they went with we rhe idea of interesting other moneyed men of the east in an electric line but what of the Alof moffat fat true moffat news does not attract as touch attento attention n as aa it did when too the chief officials fici als in company with english capitalists ita lists passed through here bere in the summer of 1907 at that timo time they declared most emphatically that the moffat road would bo be running trains into this country in eighteen months we are all aware that mr air hottat has met with many leles since he began work years yeara ago one of these obstacles has been beai the failure to ure finances the panic of 1807 1907 had something to do with this A few weeks ago den danber turned down the proposition preposition to PuT purchase chase the denver union water works largely owned by my air moffat it was thought at that time that if the sale eale went through mr air moffat would be able to extend his road on into utah soon a dispatch continued on page 3 N T LET T i N fi as p iLlIs lied th t I 1 ie e had abandon yi 1 11 idea acir the present at least or of ecce ivi but lie he seems seams 0 be baird to ta dawn for any brexl len length th ol of time here coina a telegram from now new york which Is worth it is r felloes under date of er 20 to the salt lake tribuna dai daud id 11 II moffat who is in LON lew york on bu alnesa connected with the denver union water gainy and a nd tho the domer i ail way sa sas z that as soon as financial arrangements acri be male the rz Iad will be completed to tc salt lake olty city arid and tile the construe con constructed ted through the centille nt a divide any arrangements arrange menta that mr maffat enters into for capital for the c cf tho load will in ilde duje tho tha f indus of the tunnel con 1 i 1 r nd r id iho laying cf a blanch line to connect conn t with the benver III ria gi giue i ue ae i L deits r 0 abo abolt dt ae an malca iier cl c 0 leadville at int tile the ic d is w ed cd ta 0 2 miles rom dinst Din vt its cot Inc including ludin s approximately cr about a mile cask of con 1 the remaining mile ellei will be about half that pet pel lj yelle ralle aa there vre r no j more mora moun mounta falio iio to cress tile have dave all been compia td to tho the acute follow fellow ing down dawn the bear river valley nalley I 1 in q I 1 northwestern colorado Col crado md up the buchne valley alley in utah sir mr moffat to arrange altange for lights light froni from provo into salt alake city tk tle a cat cf the tunnel I 1 las as been asti mated at between and this is the greatest ralli oad pro liot petition faion in the world today said I 1 mr moffat any ore ope rho ho talks with hini him about it zee eee that he be ha has an am ambition to cairy it to completion ille he also realizes that ills his road roa d t be of great value as a connect f ing link arc arcizo izz the bak backbone bone of the LU for some of the largo large systems I 1 you can say that the road has no entangling or agreements with nith any aay trunk line itne if I 1 should hould part with it after it is 13 completed I 1 would rathor it would he be to either the rock island or tile the burlington Dur lington other mew f paper dispatches of recent date would lead one to bellegie that the moffat branch to dotsero dottero bould settle the ques tion of further into the west but a vernal man who keeps well informed on railroad raili ralli oad matters says the dotsero dottero cutoff cut off will not in any way interfere with the main line other railroad news of seemingly a at t importance has come by way of private source and 1 not yet ready tor for publication but the leaders of the express may look for som inter estidas developments development |