| Show I General Railroad Situation for the Current Year I In tiro tha thaT ot p Utah Iti In n F year ear now T drawing to u tt as not been l b hY roan man m or rad side from the No occasional d dt Impending on the 0 of t nn an part 0 oI the thO rol roan the tho nur Burling Burlington II ng ton tOI or ar the C loo o k the cast ast railroad Iran has tit at 1 n till bc trap a the fast year POr the a ara of t ra shifted t to the tho atao 1 t Nevada ada there thore have been f sear projects pro under In Idaho Ims hehl good to fo a apro II less r degree The Tho II 0 m mining I n I ng ot of the Sagebrush state the advent 0 of the tho Salt Lake LakeIt Hule It ute has been the C cause Il SO ot of several leeral fj t to beIng and In Idaho the talky IOU of at the Interests A nil all or has teen belll thu Iho lon for the tho Ih tin ll o of corps ot of Into fl fI J d and never before III hr the tho his history tory lory a the Iho general depart Mau has there been heen so much work In Inthis this aloe repe t I liS as In I 1906 OG G TO filS FUTURE Bet n I the a anti 1111 the tho lines I 1 Utah nah have havo contented them 1111 active preparations for Or the tho al ot of their respect lee systems Tho Tha work this year ear has bt n moro more In the tho nature of t providing Ih the future futuro nud In this et t tM M fors have hae bell been concentrated In hn 1111 proving the existing holdings Especial Especially ly Iy do dors s this hold good It comes cameo to tho terminal facilities nt at Ogden and Salt Iak In III Ogden the tho Itlo Grandy Western has teen heen spending 1 n lot ot of money In rearranging Its ilK yards erect leg Ing a 11 new freight depot closer to the tho hW heart 0 of the section and Imd look 11 tf after Improvements The lines lilies however have spent more mar in the tho same Ilme direction potable among this years ears accomplish being the of at tho sand sandridge ridge cut ot whIch now nOI permits trains to 0 pull straight Into Inlo the n newly arranged yards ards without backing around the tho vye io ioas as has been heen the tho custom III years past The rhe HarrIman loo can cond shop dining car laundy laundr anti oth r nt at a proceeding Ibl h required the II qt J several buildIngs TEmU Al TS TSIn la In Suit Sail Lake the tho termInal improvements are aro the most marked Itom rom Second South to North ho Third and Fifth West Vest streets street the Oregon Short Lino has wrought t great changes the tho whole cr this bIg expanse or of valuable realty has been torn up b by steam shovels and converted Into 1 a ot of tracks Over ler the saes or of comfort obi dwellings d now rumble long strings ll of ant and c cars most of at the tho noisy switchIng that used to 10 bo be instituted In the vicinity Q of the tho Jt Is now transferred to the rho north lards which were completed ted this year at a great expense e und and are arc now sec 0 t d lJ ba none n the tho country from point ot of and convenience mo BIG DEPOT Jn In the Oregon Short Line hUll has hasto I to ted a 11 huge height depot whIch for an entire city elty block be bet t First South and ant South Temple streets on Fourth Vest Wesl At the present time IL a force torce 0 of structural structural tural steel workers is o upon erecting n a viaduct for tor street curs cars ye VI ant and This roadway Is to span pan the nun num numerous emus erous tracks of at the Oregon Short Line to 10 the abolishment or of the deadly grade crossing All 11 this lids work Is being carried on pro pre to the tho erection ot of the bIg enger depot depel full ull ot of hare are printed on page This prelimInary work on the fro part parl 0 of re ce Interests has le je n In the tho nature ot of forestalling action by byI ce I Gould interests which this year ear rte rend ready for tor the dW day when rough r uRh trains will change at Sait Lake Ilko for or the run to San Francisco ver he WESTERN PACIFIC To tic layman laman the work accomplished ty y t Western In hi Utah this ar hs II been rather In in ine e 1 ad of 0 the tho thousands ot of graders muk mak lag Ing h dirt fly lIy toward tho lino completion lit of t lOne cps to 10 the tho coast lit I Oj as I tit d promised worst has been pushed II ad a d in manner Wanner so that I this time Is little more mora morat t 1 miles ot of track laid from rom thIs t td d 4 t the Ibe line 1 with Ith no such Y I its as line IIno during the next tl IZ a t At this time the Ile road has hai t farted to cross the Groat Amer I ian d 11 u II 1 onto on e 1 n part or of the bed ot of t P j Jr al I Salt lake Jake The reason rensen for tal the apt rent delay Is to be found III 1 a t f causes At 1 E OF SLOW SIOW PROGRESS in 10 I tl first t Could i Uld has hilS ex II rt J I tits thE dl Jt e that the engineers drat It oj ke Its sure then go ahead Dur I g I fast ast six years eurl the big lines Jines ot of r t I try Irl have lIle spent millions In rec If t aT 1 1 I t leks eliminating gradients I b t all ally cutting ou out t curves In I a es t f nothing but the therl s rl ri t I 1111 quickest route roule will tin do doe e orl proposes that aft t I h m I 11 m n line Is completed there will t L i 1 to make mke al ay Con s rI jl survey suney after survey has this s I made marlo across the desert under 1 g duff and even at thIs time tb lh r p 0 I be Is In a measure In d I I This h hII Is Is the principal reason II Ar Iho ih lI lI r has been no con construction by t rn In the tho state of at No ada r furors tora have hae been the tho of t labor MIl and ma 1 U P Possibly never before ir the th tOry of of Snit SaIl lake Lako has labor for or rail been beell so scarce The Tho l Its I of labor agents buttonholing asp on the streets and asking them to gp co to I Work for or them has been ot of tree Ito quint 01 here this fell The fir first t tae miles out of at salt Lake i arl sP 1111 r tl en the engineers or of the Western trouble owing to rut b being e I ng tb encountered while rounding Galt I I rk I extremity or of the Great J e and II t then again on the des Vur 1 of the lake lako shifting sands that thu J nI lil II II I I I i I lil IId II Al I I I A 7 Fd f f 1 r g J ff fill r I R 1 S y d a ajr a lil r jr 1 ft t Jf 4 c y t 1 t W z N t 1 I L 1 j wIN e L may I s r If IJ s ur re asa p i j Lp Nt z w s J iI i iI 5 tt I If rr oz w 4 r ri t otI otIo 7 ro p o t f ot t f lol i L 1 i f j C 0 i g 3 0 IJo i 6 r i 1 1 r I IF F pi o MoO i 1 iJ t 1 t e J o M IN f e II Tr Or po tile Nall r f J 1 Ir I t I m n ful lit 1111 T el 19 3 III I I I i I I nr are apparently bottomless are For mouths the em endeavored to Ret get n e that would satisfy Engineer Virgil 1 Rogue Bogue and his hiM superiors rill 1111 PHO HOUn It present plans me followed the lire Western Pacific otter leaving the tho Great American desert will trill run almost due dill west we t to Silver lonc 1111 s 1 it distance ot of about 21 miles and l then thon the survey curc goes across 1 at lint dot valley alley crossing the tho Nevada Northern at client 20 miles rant obre Cobre the northern us or of the Nevada A few IW miles wet west 0 of thIs lino IIno the Western w will III close Flower r Lake pass which Is about 23 miles malice from trum the tho Ne soda Ulah stale stalo line At this point an ordinary switchback will ho built which will III bo be used until the lon long tunnel at this place ace Is completed This plan ot of building ahoo Ilys will he be curried so that the road will W II com completed ol at nn an early date Sonic Some or of these temporary tracks will gradIents ot of 6 0 per cent and Iho they will whit be utilized until the grade Its bIg tills and tunnels Is e eventually completed when Gould Gouhl will have the Iho quickest route through to 10 the Puente TWO At Flower Lake Lako pass laSS the tho engineers have made mado two distinct surveys One ot of them Is in tor a tunnel to bo be feet teet long and the other is 11 for tor R a tunnel feet teet long In these two plans there thero I IR is isa R a difference lIt of about I miles In the tho length of at the road roud in III keeping the Iho grade down Out ot of Salt Lake the Silver Zono Lunn tunnel wIll Ili I bo the lire first encountered This will bo be feet teet long IonIC longwith with six approaches on either to permit or of ma an easy grads grade This ThIll tun lun tunnel nel which Is to bl be bored by the Utah Construction company compan will trill bo be built upon the tho same jamo tines lines nil as the famous tumoUR As Ae Aspen pen pell on the Union Shafts will he sunk Mink lit al intervals Intervale and the forces are working Into the tho hill hili from either portal gangs ganes of at ofen m en will be troth loth ways roar the tho bottom of at the shuts hah In anticipation or tine tI o to tn trans that will tot tol tollow low the construction ot of the Western the Denver lino Orande this hl year roar he been ordering more mort equipment tor I s own on U use Irrespective or of the now new road marl Halt Half a 11 million has been bean laid out this oar II now couches couche and Ic 10 Jorty new origins have hao been purchased since Jan I 1 most of them for fot hea heavy freight rhen too lao dump care have been ordered nod will he delivered shortly hy by Iho National Dump Car company for 01 service in III the tho o oho o cost coal anti coke traffic SALT SAIT Sonie years ago 00 when the Salt Sail nou Route te was Bret projected It was con fluently expected that the new line would a 1 amount of at j Its lIs must enthusiastic project projector I I or however In III giving hIs 0 of the tho business tl to ho derived from territory failed to to fore foresee see fice the tho really remarkable that has haK been noticed since the road started start eLl ed Its first through traIn May fay I 1 1901 I I For or years earH it II had been known that lire I region ot of southern Nevada to be tra traversed versed hy by the Clark road was WIlS one vast bolt holl ot of lime atomic spoken ot of In R a Ion gan eral WIlY way But It not until rails wel laid that the countr country WRY was I really with the result that today some ot of the busies of oC the west are Iro located along the tho route roUle ot of thou new lire line to California At this writing the company vas hu in III mind several soral aimed to do still further minerai One 0 of these the branch wIll positively be built buill nod delay In receiving material will he eel ed to earl early next An Another n nother other branch talked of but not yet et bone is one leading wet west from towards Deep reel reek the soul gout o of Utah Ulah railroad builders for tor tine the last lart quarter ot of It a century VI GAti AND Tire III Vegi Tonopah lots been 11 by th the larks w hrom Las La Vegas on the Salt Sall I Route Haute to tn In lino 1111 quart or of the Bullfrog I tits rood will probably hI he et n next sum summer mer Iller On Only n II fw few weeks alto ago the 11 Yell 11 amended its df to it II to build branches In Nevada and and It I is mote than likely that this toad Trill build on one branch from Crom AmAt Amar Amargosa gosa to II the greatest of all Nevadas new great discoveries To built build 1 a mining brunch brandl has always been heen considered the neatest undertakIng Ing II is th lire std time conservative railroad builder wanted 0 l to see lee lire wheat corn corll Or fruits or of the held and anel orchard before laying hi his rail rails Into that country But here In the west that belongs b lon to the old school ot of rail mil roeding antI amid the modern not nol only the vast allt of oC or area but t the equally large oF oC au supplies I going In The farm tarm supplies the thu rune mIn anti with hour holh to draw from rom a transportation trans company can call be insured or of a 1 splendid return on its 1111 Investment mOT It I lit to note 1101 however that In the 11 or its III resources the Salt Lake flouts HOllIe has lias not nol teen idle In this respect III al matt as II great Advancement hu has been noted as 11 in tile the development of Its min main argil resources This hlll hu has been observed all the tram front this orange NI o of sun n nn n fly California to tilt pie am 11 plains of nt the tho former desert doert to Ihl I o of Halt Luke Ur III county flab Ulah for butane dry funning has hal been su successfully II carried on and the wheat raised has been su HII superior to the valley y dry farm tarm hOOI hll It has hili been u used d hy by mule mIll amid tire Ihl overflow to 10 go to 10 as crate or 01 teed the past hus hUR seen lIeen inmost tho rho entire product t moved to Cull Call During the year thousands ot of Armes or of desert 11 rICe II lurid 1 III ha were lr 1111 taken 11 U up hy by sup rul fm fairness 18 of at Ilah vat mid Gunther r elx tall III toss t HI JI n tre re M r I IWI m J HH t I ago ag II ns n nn a r 1 II attest crop ire 1111 can be is III the west UTAH 1 A n or of the new road in III establishing markets for Cor Utah Ural rod un ace Will was rioted In the e Ilvo IIvo tock stock movement ot of the year tHAI lire 1111 stock men ore waking up to the tact fact hut hat th they dont have bavo to depend on the eastern rn market but have one right at home and n It is 8 so 10 near that l I roves NU the Ion long haul han and nil heavy shrinkage Los 10 Angeles buyer have bay constantly I been In the field during the year Mr and ami I the Utah melt mell have profited largely And AmI b by olive alive to the 1011 Utah can call become a strong tron competitor of Arisona which hu has hItherto held ron con trot or of the Ios Angela market in this respect Utah Ulah fruit trul inert ha have ve also allO come elue cometo to Q a that by getting their orchards In shop a new market I Is to them UlIm This 1118 sounds something like carrying coals to Newcastle but It should hould be remembered that California does not excel In nil ali kinds of fruit and our apples peaches veach and I hears have IYO already taken higher honors In Call than its own relative products anti as al the they are aro ripe later than the California fruit thy they can bind wa way to the Los Angeles market with without without out Utah potatoes straw strawberries berries ceL and aua tu were Iund tar on tilt Ihl Jill bill ot of far fare ot of one ot of the lUll lead lug hol hotels 11 hr Los Loa Angeles just a month montha a Re It dex dorent mean much by itself bun bUl In lire Iho when Celery elery find and turkeys move lIy by lh the tar luau It Boon oon rune up In tl the millions million sent lent II aver I the new road trainloads ot of c celery lery hearts oranges n 1 lemmas a and other fruits all destined I the Bust 11 1 and these trains p poised of gold 01 1 ore articles and mo hug Into or out ot of Ill dl da SJ HI lI FOOD Tin jh Suit iek nHIt with a erly Iy In iii Ih the spring by bv bird IllI birdIng Ing 1111 its 1111 truck II Oil out th alit I J II H m H lelIo Valley lIc ash Tt It was a 1 serious to the new road roud hilt but h by hurl work the line woe put hack In shape this bridges lengthened 1 minors 11 Cut arid and n Ii wall wull built along the side hlo of the stream fro I that till It la riot likely that such B a washout cut call occur Meanwhile the maintenance 0 of way n dr de busily engaged In strengthening It Its I lint lines In Utah b by banks curvature and relaying pound steel to take the place or of light lIht steel which already 0 ar arIsted Isted on lines acquired by the company The coIn company pan has ordered considerable steel for tor this year part the lighter rail taken up ull III e beIng slacked At for or the loche I bl branch llE VIEH rho fhe whole or of the Leamington will eventually 1 bit with whir heavier steel which will give the company plenty plent or of materiAl with which to coon com It its I proposed Deep Creek line hue or orallY any allY other projected Black Hoel was wa abolished IlS as a 11 district tOI or minal and took toek Its place This mesas that Is booming pinch several verDI will b be reeled erected there The Tho new station eras finished at Ca 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