| Show railroad through fertile e I 1 V I 1 U ustah basin may solve direct route problem aci ordane to press tso itches an other ther fight Is 1 looming on oil A america mer I 1 cas railway horizon with pym eyes again dl ill retted to the he uintah basin cht report reports originating in new ew yorks york fin a iclal catchers hatchers hat chers commonly as wall street state that the group or railia rall wars g known as the tames road roads thy burlington beaten ra elite and denver A 1110 grande western and the lie union pacific will be the contender contenders in the struggle with the early completion of 0 th moffat tunnel theae theme railroads were forced to place their earda cards on the table and the reasons tor for the contention among them are now made known to the public the denver deaver silt lake started I 1 til ill 1902 1909 as a the deliver nuver northwest ern f pacific by divid prom aties lea to 0 o be a rich plum to its owner i for the maffat tunnel which to 1 6 02 I 1 miles locq lane and I 1 Is the brewst in thia this country thorlene shortens the tho distance be chicago and the pacific oat toast by evenly seventy miles and calt the tile space betheen lie tween denver and salt ake lake I by mile miles after varying attempts to build it low roule route and later by a high route which with iti its 4 per cent made glade and tie its garmt wa was the most re mark abic standard guage road roaf in the country moffit died and he be read parsed passed through several groups and thence into 1 m which it emerged the first 0 at this yer year the denver ft bait salt aake ake runa rung from denver to craig a distance of miles the denver rio tito orande grande west ern by using the dottero cutoff cut off jet to be built a forty one mile connect ing link bilth the denver ft SaIt Lake would enter denver thereby ellmin sting a haul to pueblo miles south of at deaver de iver atom which point t rune runs i the western Pa citte lc velch alch owns a half interest tn in the denver ft rio would furnish an outlet tu to the pacific coast tor for the deave sit late assuming the he latter were vermit permitted ted to join in building thi craig pitro line the chicago dur bur lington ft quincy another road dominated by arthur curti curtis james tha the world a biggest holder of rail rall stocks running from chicago and st loula and an at denver an arrangement with he denver sc rio orande grande 14 stern could each that h pacific o 0 11 I 1 way of 0 ahr tn latter and denver nuver salt lake laks the union pacific atch has ha to detour northward because ot of the al of the divide divider aleo also la is aaget to gel get a more durec direct route to he through ibis this act ion tion leaving W online where at granger it branch brane bies ott off to salt a lake the union pacific vante more d met link between denver and silt lake ch cb 1 1 bile the between the jume james roads and the union nears chicago rock tind tolland A rael MCI tic also want to ret get in with mhd denver bolt salt lake hoek island asked the interstate luter state torl bonime imece ce coin mission leelon ni to revise its it agreement falth IW he denver A tito gronde grande western 0 io o it ean can use the denver A salt lake track into denver deriver the opinion is a in conil railroad circles circle ii that it t the lames tames in erette get control ot of the denver salt lake take their neil next move bould bulj has be to bygd b aad through the uintah lioan ao 10 too to salt sal lake take thie this wa woultz kllc provide the ther lant last ink in a new now transcontinental road on the he other hand they m build the dottero cutoff would connect iha denver salt lake with the denver denier A rio granda grande A estern ea lern hue completing a through route from coltha toto coast the latter litter la is unlikely or the he following reasons the den dan er A hlo rio grande western if is con rolled on a fifty fifty nt basold br uie tile western pacific and the missoula Mis 1 soua pacific this means mean that jamea now control controls 60 per cent of 0 ahlo road but be not be able to weld it into his proposed tran rangoon scon tin system without at leat a 51 per cent control AO f it la in pointed cu on further that tha the continuation of the dearer bait salt lake through the uintah basin want I 1 opert o 0 up a and develop a new tonnage it ie in admitted that because ot of the difficulty which would be encountered in building another line CO on daxe 1 in KOU v amr af mil 1111 doltl 1 continued from page 1 ot of road up to the tile tunnel from eltho side aide the denver sail salt lake wit be he the focus of any attempt to get the bee lee ot of the tunnel this road h N the only one which la Is in a position to use the bore upon its completion within the next tew few months the denver salt lake it Is I 1 follows from denver deliver west to the continental divide the mot most practicable route and an attempt to build another road to the mouth of or the tunnel would entail expenditure that might be out ot of proportion to the benefit benefits derived the kamberger amberger 13 interests hae base before the interstate commerce corn com chalon a plea jo build a mile track between craig colo and provo utah |
