Show would be scenic route of america continued hiom page 1 amount of blasting will be r requited then the canyon again widens sufficiently to allow the road to be built to good advantage without gr great e t at cost johnsons ranch 14 1 4 miles above elgin at this point mel e leave our boises hoi sea and are provided with a team and white top wason wagon to complete our journey with here we arol are able to buy water melons 1 lapsed by irrigation from a gasoline pumping plant and tresh eggs for our table friday auguts 22 we find no obstacles of a serious nature aiom tile the mouth of price river to elgin except a few shale cut banks which will have to be excavated one in particular on the wagon road about three miles below johnsons ranch the logical place for a junction with the denver and rio grande railroad is in the town of elgin on tho the cast side of green river from the fact that a better line can be secured on the east cast side bide of the liver biorn the mouth of price river and loss less property rl rights lito would be affected than in the older and more highly section occupied by t the I 1 0 fault belt on oil the west side about ot land is dundei ii fi in the vicinity of gheen liver and elgin supplied by thice laige steam pumping plants most of this land is in each apple and foults and a specialty is being made of cantaloupes of which there is ia a laige crop the peach crop this yeal is ib tely light is as wo were ablo able to see having been taken in an auto all over the truit belt by business men of dieon river baill buill mai Y af after ter viewing the whole line from roosevelt to green river I 1 am able to summarize as follo follows wa the gradient can not be equaled tor a like distance in tiny any other direction in the inter moun tain country thus enabling heavy traffic to be carried on at a minimum expense for traction the alignment while full of curvature will not in my exceed 20 degrees maximum curvature this curvature is i necessitated from the fact that the line hue fiust of necessity follow very closely the course of the river the line would be one of most scenic on this continent not being excelled in beauty 01 01 by the royal gorge of tho the arkansas or the black canyon of the gunnison with both of which the is familiar hence as a tourist line it is bound to be very popular the fi fiol eight glit business is bound to be laige front from the start And andi increase nerease rapidly the tonnage of coal and merchandise into the uintah basin would be large while a beet busar bugar factory would materialize in the basin with a tall rail load and the shipment of hydrocarbons dro carbons wool alfalfa seed and live stock would be large the opening up lip of such an empire as the uintah basin containing as aa it does nearly acres of irrigable land with the best water supply the best soil and the finest climate in the inter moun tain country Is bound to amply reward the capitalist who puts his money into such buch a lall road this line instead of meeting with the stubborn opposition of the gould and harriman Harrl man interests in ill wall and elsewhere is bound to have the cordial support of at least the gould interests as it would be one of its best f feeders |