Show the moffat line dotsero dottero project will be built as soon as permit is issued washington may 22 Favorable interstate commerce commission action on the application of the denver dener and salt lake western railroad to build the dotsero dottero cutoff Is expected shortly it as learned at the commit 1 elon sion today 1 A completed application for per I 1 mission to build the cutoff stating surveys have been made and that construction nil ill begin within a reasonable time after the necessary authority Is obtained has been filed nun ith the commission it Is filed in the name of the denver denser and salt lake western railroad a wyoming corporation headed by W it freeman denver denvor which recently was organized tor for the purpose of building the 42 mile cutoff linking the line of the denver and salt lake railroad and that of the denver dener and rio orande grande western at dotsero dottero charles TIa Pla hattle haffie director of the finance division of the interstate commerce commission said today that the application to build the cutoff if which save saie miles in the mil rail distance between denver dener and salt lake city will be examined commission representatives shortly and prepared fol fot final action by the commission lie said that so far as he knows no protests against approving the application have lime been filed and that if it none appear it probably will be approved by the commission without hearings former governor biberger 0 of utah head of a railroad company 0 anizel panl zed to extend the denver and salt lake R from crall to salt lake city protested against of 0 the dotsero dottero cutoff cut off plan hen application for permission to build it first was tiled filed with the interstate commerce commission com three years ago iris ilia argument areu ment was that building of the cutoff cut off oft mould remove much ot of the impetus behind the move to extend the denver and salt lake from craig bamberger arote rote the interstate commission a neck seek ago asking for information about the status of the anoll catlon to build the dotsero dottero cut off and was advised that the denver and salt lake western had completed the record for commission action on application for permission to build it I 1 whether his company will seek to bloc approval of the application ai m this time ts is not known here in its answer anser to qu tlona addressed by the interstate commerce commis lon ion about the desirability of building cutoff off the he denver and salt lake western it would make an estimated saving of more than 50 per rent in operating expenses of the denver dener and hlo rio orande grande western 8 ex sting route it WH was estimated the cost c 0 st of the rut it off would be nith fid ad dit clit lonal ional expenses for rolling stock and station equipment during the first rear of its operation the applicants for per to build the cut off esti estimated maVd it would handia tons of freight and passengers yielding a gross revenue of SID OW and a net operating rei revenue denue of it was as not cleir whether hether these estimate estimates viere based on the assumption of a traffic e re ement with lines handling transcontinental traffic the applicants stated they at present ha have hae e no traffic airree ment for use of the cutoff cut off but it la is understood here that negotiations for such an tin agreement are in progress 1 |