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Show I, DESERET EVENING NEWS. salt 1 Eg , I FOUNDED saturdAy dkckmhku 1850 20 imu lake city Utah SEVENTIETH t YKAU S&4 I Uinta Basin Treasure Store To Be Tapped By Railroad .J After &iany Ct Y mti Kt of Hoping and Planning, Project Taka Definite Form to Bring Richee of Vait Section of Eattcrn Utah and Watcrn Colorado in TouchWiththe Markets of the Inland Empire . Route of the Proposed Utah and Colorado Railroad (The Uinta Basin Line ) iWhj Abnormal Reconstruction Situation Affects Utahs Rail Business of the Year v y the rout of (A pmpoeed I'tak and Col rndo Radroad from Sprxngx'dle or Rrox-o- , Ctak, I o Craig, Map Ik route to b Colo., t As preeent terminus of Ik Denver and Salt l.ak r railroad. Th e heavy dotltd lint xndiral fallowed by th surrey. Som flight change might bf mad in Colorado, it is intimated, ihould th final surrey Plans of Carriers Wait Upon Return of Rails, to Their Private Ownership! that an altemativ routs lying to th north of th r present rout bwen Rangrty and t'rsiy, is mar Th map alto sAou-- some of th main ita e and othrr road ttrxmg th territory in question at and a few of the resources of th I!ain. Th Utah coal field on Tabby Mountain and in Peep Creek ar preient, indicated by Ike haded areas. Th ihort line running nnrthweet and routheaet mark th pree net and direction of fhe giltomte reins. Th heavy dot, soufA of the line and toward th weeterS end of Duchetne county, nuirke the de of tome of the meet important elatefh i'e d post fa. Thistle to Marysville, Salt Lake to It Is Jurt now being placed In eerrlca. The separate road IlKItK la not much "to blow operate It f fark Oty. Provo lo Heber City. Salt Tbe And passenger traffls ,flrouh about" with tha railroads Lake to Bingham. Bingham lo Gar- during frvlght For convenience, and to Increase the year over the entire sysas ear There haa been field. adto g of Notwithsland-nEureka. the tem been has even than dur-n- g service, heavier efficiency Projro railway the etrenuoelty of the llmea, the haa consolidated the general thin, too much uncer- ministration fair year, 1311. Nothing aorlds Utah llnea have don a very fair Ilka It has been known before. Tbe Wella and tainty ae to the future, anxiety about Southern laclflc between businraa. and made physical improve- Soldier Summit Improvement la reWlnnemucca. but this will cease with maintenance of equipment and road release ments valued at nearly 33. of the roads from federal ferred to In another paragraph. bed. threatened The principal of theea was tha buildstrikes. and worry control, of Soldier Summit from a way about how to adequately handle spurts ing up The Salt Lake Route. station of comparative Insignificance, of heavy traffic There haa been, Short Line. Oregon to a big division terminal, the official under the federal administration, a ends of tha Salt Lake and Green River THIS now popular road runs. Is a very concise and Salt Lake City and Pass-den- a. shifting around of officials, and ma- FOLLOWING being tranofrrred from HelGradient and divisions Give Railroad Colorado For and the Utah of the ac summary T Surrey to Completed Soldier a of Cal.. per distance Summit, miles, via Tlntlc, and f of and traffic operations nipulation 26 tivities on tha Oragon Short Lina dur- miles to the west. The formal with a aide line betwean IhL For the Line city and Short People Undertaking questions However, officials and op- - ln the past ysar and which Important Tranportation opening occurred Nov. 17. In tha prea-enc- e Lynndyl Junction, via may be NephI, through, eratlvea appear to have put their beet a of nu..vber of official of tbe Route. Lake Salt uPon M accurate In every de Of Utah Since the Building 6f the foot forward In expediting road, but without any program or set aa well as local trains operating over operation tall Lika every other road. It has had exercises. It waa declared In opera- both lines. Then, there la a Ploche and considering the tremendous In its movements circumscribed by war tion. and that was all there waa to IL branch from Calianta. another t St. crease In business offered the roads conditions; but Tha outlay In ulldlng up this ter- Thomas from ldoapa. one to Ooldfleld,. or notwithstanding this, Bear come river the Una of the 8 Yampa, tha Basin, tha end of and 111 proposed north, approaches, In recovering from the effects of the the company makes a showing that minal was 11.600.000. The Improve- from Las Vegas, one to San Pedro "d extends of Utah approximate- flroni?lu,t Colorado ment would have been completed be- harbor, and several spurs to mining plans for the construction much for the Intelligent care war. temporary chafqtc conditions speaks and watchfulness of Ita fore. but there waa much red tape to camps; making a total mileage of the Utah a Colorado railroad. -- un consequent on peculiarities of admin- The road la In first classmanagement vre be wound up at .Washington, which 1.163 miles. The company has ex. and to make acce.albl. to the jJ.nv,p g u Lake, or "Moffat" rail- istration which choked up eastern and giving the beet of service: shape, the vork until governmental perleaced the heaviest freight and delayed world th. riche, of the UlnU Basin road. which extend. to D.nv,r .h,r, WhB?Confluence.wlt the Green more The consent could he obtained. southern terminals, and with embarSoldier paasenger business In Its history, so Important physical changes during 111- In the property hav, assumed such shspe as to make connections may be established w th njlp Mrh olher ,nd n(.ar a,, present Summit will within a year have 1.600 It la reported from headquarters, segoes real and threatened following, of soutn. ;ndJan shore In competition with the Oregon Short Line railroad. Innorth, east population, so fast le It being built curing ita Fe. of line a practical in f)latlng tr,ding post of Ouray, develop-- - up. also, an unprecedentedly heavy sum- cluding Impiovemenls to and addi- that , . Thousands of soldiery of the James Peak tunnel mpnt Five hundred people have moved the Santa . Completion .v mo . . (n that trrrltory a n ce sailors and tourists have been mer passenger traffic, the remark has tional locomotive equipment acquired, car. Moffat line will offer to having been delayed by a government In In six months. j. t,n ll1 transportation project In the state, through traffic between the Pacific withdrawal been made that It was a wonder the were as follows The new community Includes a JOx rled,sothis year, tha latter traffic befor reservoir purpose, that 50 miles of 90 pound southern California beery y since the days of the con- - coast andthe east the shortest route which aimed to store water In the 100 ft. fire proof depot, ing roads have done so well. There has railApproximately Is In a quandary as to how to care In main track between Pocatello, possibly, That with division offices In the second for the been a paring down of expenses In Idaho, and Huntington. Oregon, has In Inrush, tha govern- expected story; a hotel of 60 rooms with rail ment hmsbeen asked fact to loan a thoue-- , many directions of late and curtail- been replaced with new 100 pound - .- - least modi way cafe; an engine house capable of and tents for visitors to camp In to meet the requirements of In- railroad and an Important factor in . fled ment of se vice dun lo coal scarcities, rail housing 30 locomotives, 31 miles of Sycamore square. Loo Angeles. r th howvr h 1 tah crease In weight of equipment now solution of through truffle problem,.' The.; de-- I In the Utah end of the Basin the tracksge with a holding capacity of company to will have railroad A Colorado and a prolonged shortage In cars has being operated, heavy-fru- it always does and to better with- the district It traverse in Utah Is of r.i.nA fnr it to nna on the local traf- -' city of Duchn. at the Junction of 1.400 cars, stors houses, Ira houses, as 8alt Lake is a great.1 business, resulted In great embarrassment, es- stand the wear from Increased traf- a nature which neither invites nor .. and shads. 30 miles of lhan on the transcontinent- - the Strawberry and the Duchesne, can coal chutes ' rathr point, for such shipments; . . Similarly on the main line be- enable of mipputtlnj the population aid to mark In a rough way th nsw 0 pound steel rail, on tha dou- distributing pecially to the lumber trade and the fic. condlIn under domsn a present half directions. The reOgden, Utah, and Silver Bow, that the Basin region can hope to ne n of the agricultural area bts track down the mountain; 31 cot- location of the track coal carriers. But gradually things tween KOOjy hare of the western the through . Montana, approximately 51 miles of tiling its broad acrej, f.nd delving for some what of have four and rooms tages six people each, and Rainbow canyon has eliminated all seem to be straightening out; and 80 pound rail In main tract has been Ite buried mineral ucasure soon after Local traffic aould in mind when speaking euP 60 more cottages yet to bs built, for iau7 vaguely ui floods.-The from while railroad officials profess to be replaced with new 90 pound rail. Cer- the advent of the locomotive. " i" rut mit the basin East of here the river the help, principally; a 360,000 Y. M. danger company has 113- - passenger . . . . . out Into a broad stretch C. A. building with all the mOet mod- cars, including . Situated between two all )n the dark as to how conditions tain of our branch lines on which the valleys open baggage and express; lighter pattern rail Lid In former nenl.l line, of railroad that parallel1- "of country, where Myton, on the river, ern equipment, to be erected with 3,373 freight cars, are going to pan out when the gov- years 263 construction ' ! had become badly worn were some f1,1 CT few e another at a distance of 100 to 150 ,'"h. V? funds Roosevelt It. miles north of from . estats tha of tha Oen. lata 8 coal cars; and 8 oil a oxer burning, ernment gives up railway control, relald with heavier pattern rail as aaln and other thriving communities have Palmer, formerly president of tha Rio burning engines, the latter operating' miles, the Uinta Basin has remained!1'1 The was apparent. system there is a general tendency to look followsportatlon in Into existence Grande narrow of Western. There la a pipe line between Los Angelas and Milford, and the sprung either. True, a spite On the branch line between Brlg-'ia- untapped by only question to'be solved was, would absence of adequate transportation on the bright sjde of things, and not fine, the Uinta railroad, supply of fine water, from spring the others, running north. The opera-tlo- n of tonnage under facilities. Still north of the river are five the basins City. Utah, and Malad, Idaho, guage bfferlng miles back on the mountain. The the of the' Salt Lake Routs Is temporget discouraged. The railroads In this approximately 10 milts of 60 pound ventured a tortuous climb up maxi- - present conditions Justify the expense Whlterocks and Fort Duchesne; and work of construction done by the arily under the control of the general a the at of rim southern basin, of the 80 was of rail railroad a Uie country, may be said to of construction of part replaced with pound rail; to northwest the Vernal Utah further has 7 Construction and of um v, like the uompany per manager of the Oregon Short Ling, something th. branch line extending from cent rade and easv curvatures de- become the center of the well devel- railway. have fared a little better than railThe railway hauled over H. V. Platt, and traffic Jurisdiction But having climbed the rim, low gradientsmodern Idaho. !t standards. creek 3.000.- 000 tons of coal westbound over reals with the director of traffic of manded way groups tn other sections of the Shoehone, Idaho.fcto Ketchum. Ashley oped by country, draining 1U a a exhausted by though and , Union, and the fact that Utah coal approximately 48 miles of 52-- 18 the Summit durftig the year. the Union Pacific system. J. A- - Mun-ro- e. 8 at ,he gil80n Governor Bamberger and those w ho IntoIn the Green river direct. vallev of the While river In mines have been kept working Is no 60 pound rail was replaced with 70.tfffort-mines of which it Is rcallv The passenger department Of tbs are a Annsher fine Improvement on the wiyh him believed It would. The Utuh the plant the small contribution In this direction 70 and 80 pound rail, on the branch only Important settlements ttah lines Is the model freight from a construction that Oregon Short Line controls yard Operated as a common cai-t- o main problem so are The roads centering here have han- line extending from Blackfoot, Idaho, feility. those far of connected the with the in this city, newly built at a cost of branch of the traffic of the Salt Lake it can with the standpoint was the crossing dled an enormous number of tourists near Maokay, Idaho, approximately BO'fler it docs the beat business the Colorado gllsonite the Industry, survey 3300.000. There are two sheds, one Route over the Utah part of the sysand traffic offered, Wasatch range. Already the past year, and they have handled miles of 60 pound rail was replaced freight enough to show border. Some oil producing con. for outgoing and one for Incoming tem, the southern part remaining with but It really stops many miles short has progressed far can with 75 pound rail. rnunltles have also a them well. made be exceeded, beginning, freights. 450 feet long and nearly a Us own passenger department at LosTo enable farmers In the territory of the tdhnage produebu; centers of that fondest hopes a close to the line. crossed with block wide, with fire proof doors, Angeles, where the general hsadquartraversed by the Oregon Short Line the basin, the gilsonlte properties of its and the rangeshort stretch bfonly road scales at every door, four lifting 1,r corporation are Vacated, The Union Pacific. And Area to have shipping facilities closer to! owners, and some few adjoining, ex. comparativelymaximum Population. grade will run where the cranes, trackage for 200 care between When the road goes back to its own. - cepted. ellmthe and centers, rethereby the r he general management, with nr HE Union racific road has a rnile- - 'tnate ,on(f anexenslve wagon hauls. The Uinta railroad serves to empha- as high as two per cent For Roughly speaking, the basin prop r the open space, and rising platforms mountain section the la approximately 200 miles long and to the longitudinal plat- - fectlon of the traffic departments reage in this state of but 102 miles spur tracks have been Installed at va-- size. rather than to solve, the trans- mainder of this 1 80 14 about The cent miles wide. the corporatltjn management, It carries forms, so that trucks can be run urn highest grade will be willperbe 10 de- about the 1.027 miles between Ogden and rlous locations where all farm lportation problems of the gTeat 9,000 square miles In Utah and across the space from one house to though Mr. Platt rerokins curvature Meanwhile the maximum it approaches. In Colorado. 7.000 connecting at the western ucts Including sugar beets can In Is Utah there i1 ,th no cars the when are on grees. f,urtlt(F other, the c,11 be to market two transcontinental the Oregon 8hort Line Hy taken for shipment systems have at lclat direction already a population to be served es- tracks. The company paved the ad- - J,?; Geography Of tlie Basin. for points north and south, with the nd to gugar factories. Some of the been busy developing tonnage lying timated at 34,500 persons, and the asunless Col. IL C. Nutt clpated, streets and with approaches Denver & Rio Grande also for points more Important locations being: The Uinta basin is a term of various sessed valuation of the property o i turns to his pre-wposition as gen- qloser to their lines, and with fewer south, and with the Southern Pacific McCammon, Idaho, where a 740 ft. engineering difficulties in the path of local significance. Its widest appli- the basin is around 114,000.000. Wann as traf. lerai Mr, and In manager, are to bs for points on the- - direct line weST to "Pur track was installed, which In "feeder branches. cation can be seen easily by a study Colorado, Moffat, Rio Blanco and theTwo new depots one jj0 manager, the position he occu San Francisco. at beet startmechanical a and year, with coming the Kyuns reMr. conjunction river, Jurisdiction Green The no Munroes Routt Oregon counties have an estimated one Through the of the map. Railroad or railroad, pled befor, at Castle Gate, the coet of tha waa Short Line at Salt Lake, the Union loader erected by the Amalgamated sources extended to Los Angeles. In good basin have steadily at- ing away to the north In Wyoming population of about 20,500 and an two ofdhe to be $12,000. The Utah lines times a great tonnage of ora is haul-haPacific connects also direct with Lo Sugar company, affords readily additional settlers, confident had to break through two barriers of assessed valuation of around $8,000,-00145 locomotives, a number of and southern California over cessible shipping facilities for approx-th- e tracted Routt county Is already traved ln tha mining districts. mountains before It reached the Juncfacilities would the that transportation new. them are cars The Salt Lake Route, through trains lmately 8,000 tons of sugar beets interchangesoon come In response to the call of tion with the Grand, to form the eled by the Denver St Salt Lake road able with the Colorado and beUtah sysbut a large proportion of Its valuable nually. Chicago and Los Angeles the traffic offered- - Tonnage Is the Colorado. The drainage area between Western Pacific.' tems of the company. The business Between Strang and Aberdeen, lng operated over these lines. It Is represented In Utah resources, particularly of ltd heavy of It remained these two ranges, for railroads. the company has been increased by on that as soon as the cor- - ho. at Mile Post 26 0 a 930 ft. spur lodestone coal the mountains is north, the Unita tonnage by possibilities, to Simon decide Gov. expected for Bamberger HE Western Pacific, with a mile poration haa recovered possession of track was Installed which in conand the rise of which the southern, to move westward with the comple- the erection of the Ptngree sugar fac- "J its property, the extra fast, de Lxe Junction with a mechanical beet load-trai- n that the time Is ripe for a railroad and In places abruptly precipitate, tion of an outlet In that direction tory at Hooper and It has hauled apage of 930 miles, has only 110 In in offered the claim to tonnage prize service will be restored, with a er Installed by the Utah-Idah- o 2,400,000 tons of ore from Utah. No physical changes have been Sugar Is known as the Book Cliffs, on Approximately 40,000 of the Inhab- proximately edge In He succeeded basin. Interesting the the Utah Copper mines to Garfield number of other features of service company, supplies proper shipping the south. Is the basin geographically. itants of the Basin are anyIn thie state, but four heavy smelters. that go to make travel pleasant and facilities for a large tonnage of riigar local capital, inassembled data, initiated The Duchesne river gathers the waters where from 20 to 80 milesliving Fifty miles of 90 pound made from the steel few a months short the and are to be laidalong the main Mallet locomotives have been added beets disconsurveys, and other farm products, comfortable, and which were Lake Fork, the nearest railroad. of the Strawberry, to the L'tah equipment for hauling , tinued under the stress f war times. Practically no construction of new dream of decades became an assured Uinta and numerous small streams leaving Springvllle and existing line the coming year, and heavier rails freights over the htlL After the Iglose t Judge R. S. Lovett, president of the lines has been undertaken during the fact. from the north and a few tributaries llnea of railroad, the Utah & Colora- are to.be laid on the Marysvalc of the year. It is expected that quite Starts at Springvllle. corporation, recently made a minute year 1919, except that the railroad of less note from the south and drains do survey starts up Hobble creek can- branch. It Is expected that a number a number of official chafiges will be of official , changes will be made at has authorized the Inspection of the road, by daylight, administration From the vicinity of Springvllle, what Is roughly the Utah portion of yon to the summit of the Wasatch. Denver at the ' Sacramento and Saq, and Judging by interviews in coast completion of a branch line Utah, where three railroads are ready the basin. Ashley creek and a few On the other side it skirts the headquarters when the gov- made Strawend of the line, but, Just Franctaco ernment hands over tbe roads to the from Tetonla, Idaho, to the coal mines to take the traffic on to Salt Lake City others In Utah flow directly Into the papers. It Is doubtful If many official The Western corporation owners. It has been re- what Is la conjecture. changes of consequence are ito be of the Idaho Coal company. Approx-mad- and Ogden, or to points south, west Green. From the Colorado end of the (Continued on page thirty-eight- .) noted for Its remarkable ported for some time, unofficially. I Pacific beyond the retirement of J. A. lmately six miles of track In connec-Munro- e, River vice president and director tlon Vith this project has been laid, that James KOsseli, general manager, scenery Inthrough the Feather Nevada for the most part, is to go to the "Milwaukee at St. country of traffic, after many years of faith-- 1 and if the weather conditions will creasing use being made of the medl cilities in the power plant 'were In- proven very useful. a cost of about $26,000, to During the year we will have prac- Paul,' where he Is much wanted, but which has 'attracted much favorabla, ful service, to be succeeded by Harry permit, the work of completing the cinat properties ln the waters at Lava stalled at . Idaho, with attendant furnish additional steam required to tically completed the conversion of 1$ Just what other changes will be made, attention. M. Adams, v.ho In ability is conaid- - remainder of the main track of this Hot Springs; adrecent extensions and of locomotives care Both the Denver A Rio Grande and from saturated steam to no one seems to have much of, an take e. ered a worthy successor to Mr. Mun- - branch line will be undertaken growth of this town, a modern frame ditions to Western Pacific have for th last six j shop buildings; also, inci- superheated at a cost of about $66.-00take care of the railroad's Reports from Denver headquarters of months mediately and the work prosecuted depot to waa The locomotive ao equipped ef- the done a heavy transcontinental constructed here at a dent to our Shop Plant operations at A Rio Grsnde system, relaThe Union Psciflc has a double, vigorously. Denver business To meet the requirements of cost of $16,000; the depot at Kim Pocatello, new tools and machinery fect a large reduction )n fuel con- tive fo Improvements during 1919, freight and passenger business, par- track east of Ogden for 3 miles, and Installed costing sumed. ticularly Irv transportation of soldiers the company gets firmly on Ita creased size and weight cf equipment, berly, Idaho, was enlarged to meet the were purchasedat and that aside from certain minor Im- and New locom6tives were purchased state Salt Lake City simsailors. Prior to that time, trana. which always ocour In the feet again, resumption of double certain pile trestles were replaced by Increased business requirements of $20,000, while cost provements $36,000. during the year at a cost approxl-matin- g maintenance of railway property, not continental traffic was rapidly cen. track building will be returned, to steel bridges, the more Important of that growing city at a cost of $3,600. ilar outfitting $2,150,000 and consisted of many projects of considerable magni- terlng on the Harriman and affiliated To provide a plant for reclaiming Additional water stations and inmake the road double tracked all the these being a 50 span pile trestle 760 followed; 20 Mikado type loco- tude have been completed on the Den- lines; but the Rio Grande eastern in- ; way, except perhaps a few miles in, feet long and 41 feet high across the creased facilities for water supply were scrap, such wrought Iron, old arch the E Pacific terests got busy at 'Washington, and locomotives; type A Rio Grande lines during the curSnake river near Burley, Idaho, which provided as follows: Bliss. Idaho, at bars, etc., to be converted Into vari- motives; ver Echo canyon. 1 Mallet type locomotive; IO switch mads a . rent year. Among those worthy of the, railway administration The Southern Fkcfflc operates In was replaced with three steel Whipple a cost of $10,000; Idaho Falls, Idaho, ous sizes of rounds, flats, squares and n $18,600; Blackfoot. Idaho, t$6,760; tbe like, an expenditure In the neigh- type locomotives. mention is the Installation of 6,100 shift of operations that has- sine , Utah, lit miles of the 783 between t truss spans on concrete piers and evened things up. borhood of $60,000 was made at 'oca-telltons or about 46 track miles of new and San Francisco in Utah. laments at a cost approximating 1126.-dra- Pocatello, Idaho, $60,900. and It is now possible to re- ' Denver & Rio Grande. rail on the main line. many transcontinental tourists 000; also, a nine span .frame trestle two stall drop pit wss Innew A over this line because of th remark- - its feet long and ll'l-- t fet high stalled In the engine house st Mont- claim a large amount of such materUtah Railway Company. Another Improvement of considerthe 3,652 miles ln the Denver A able moment Is the purchase of somethable views to be obtained in crossing over the North Side Canal near Worth-th- e pelier, Idaho, st a cost of approxi- ial for use where previously new maF cut-o- ff bad to bs purchased. Great Salt Lake, over the Lucin Ington on the Rupert-BUs- s ing-over 2,000,000 pounds of steel THE Utah Railway company mately $5,000 replacing an old style terial rut-of- f, com-Vmiles of road, ninety-eigJust like going to sea by train, was replaced with two On the repair tracks at North Salt which had become too small for vain track Installation. bridges pit drop Mexico New and Colorado, through was line formerlv the Central mon standard steel through plate to permit removal of drivers from Lake, a heavy timber device for rightThis material, although authorised from Provo, Utah, ln a gen- 800 In are miles Included and a strong effort was made.der spans on concrete pier and abut-aom- e present the Utah, seme months ago, was considerably eral southeasterly direction to Mohr- larx locomotive when neces- ing shifted loads of lumber, etc., was time ago to seggrerate it from ments at a cot approximating 310,004. sary to make repairs. installed at an expense of 33,300. This Utah lines, extending - from Grand delayed by prior demands ef the lnthe Knnthern Pacific system, and to the account andwas of aa On of war xn th steel Industry. At Pocatello, Idaho, additional fa device constantly has Junction. Colo., to Ogden. Utah, from rconttnoed an pare thirty-eight- .) experiment T thla''r prm s Vast Resources of Long Neglected Region Now Face Great Development Eay , Mot r"1 d'dh rhlch prop- illda- - Th.YamJrlnalh.Grn TSluchoUinYhe U - long-dream- -- r,on two-stor- ' Prnt i h,Ulo thewc I l?i't - m s - Utah-Colora- of a, prod-Omah- ter-rlto- ry vice-pres- read-termin- al anti-joini- ar -- ve 0. en J -- I . e, 1 lm-TO- 0. abut-Ogde- I o, , 60-fo- ot hl ht ' -- i. Sk es v- 4 |