Show BRISTOL PASS SAFEST ROUTE Proposition to Build Salt Lake I Route oute Main Line Through Different Section CUTTING OUT MEADOW VALLEY Affirm That Iso Will Always thin to 10 Los Ios Time Tho question ot of whether tIme tho Salt Lake Lak Houto will construct It Its II line tho Ya Valley II e coun country try through which the trolls flood hUH has just out property valued In the millions has apparently not miot been decided In tree remInds of oC the tho raIlway At Al least Gen Gemi Ian R tiger OI Volis has not gIven Iven any Intimation Lion tion of at me It decisIon on this point But Dut that time thc abandonment ot of iso tho old and costly line through the wash hems has been there can be tin reason for tor doubt Discussing this question and sug goslIng tho ho feasIbility of oC another route exten front via Pioche and the Bristol pass Ims through to Las Vegas tho ho Phoebe under date of at Jan JanS S 5 has time the under the tho caption of oC Thu Tho Bristol Way n The Tho terrIble catastrophe which hiss hns occurred within the past Cek In the Meadow Mcadow wash entailing a l loss 1099 ot of man many millions or of dollars again eta ern ph the tho act that limit tho h San Pedro Los Ios Angeles Salt Sail Railroad com company pan made mude I a serIous o It choso chioso time the roUte down tho he nar now nose canyon and Moapa for tor Its transcontinental line ot of otI I rack mele This was out to anti hIs hili associates b by nit engineer em ott on the work of 01 selectIng me IL rattle for tor the lie Suit Smelt Lake road roud across Ne Nealia Nos alia ada to southern This en who wo semis a man of oC many ye years In In his re rePort Port Irl to 0 Senator Clark laid partIcular upon tipon the InevItabilIty of oC wash outs let III the Meadow Valley canyon canon as his Is tho probability of oC a of oC them season aftem season This Tho con conclusion was based basell upon the tho fact that tho ho canyon canon being heing narrow could not at aC atford ford drainage for or the tremendous area arca or of countr It does doell on side wIthout IL a great dnn or to toIl Il EL railroad If IC hullt Clint stay lie Ito ed nt mit least that It would on d lie t time e cx x of oC sums to time the roadway absolutely Immune from Crom tho ho ravages ot oi tho ho sprIng or orthe orthe the following erratic cloud But other engIneers employed on die Ule location favored Meadow Mcadow Vai le Icy and that list route roule had time tho preference ANSWER TO 10 CONUNDRUM True there arc few which engineering drIll cannot surmount But In Iii the face faco of nil all the which have hao befallen the lie Salt Lake Route noute will It Its have hao the tho courage to re rc build time the road through the die wash again There Thero Is III w way to look at Ito tho proposItIon For ne 1001 milos time the mil railroad road tol fol V l iw n a canyon flU no imo u of Is cd ads usually look th C local traffIc V of steel calls Into a new nest country Emit Bul when the tho Salt Lako road mond entered county om 01 what Is III Isnow now Lincoln 0 t this thie was hot hint gIven the semiotic sellous consideration perhaps that It should have beth gIen Had the line followell time the run riot from I a point near lI dena or oh thence to and Bristol pass Into the that broad brond Dry and Palm Pah and on oil to Ia LOS Vegas In almost a line It would woul be 00 derivIng Income flOm a country Im rich In a fruit trull and other resources With time the main line at our very cr doors bore the effect would be to greatly late lato interest in n mining here hor at Poche ho result would he be timo tho saimie In the mind Gap distrIcts tol a camp which ani only needs thO hand ot of to make It greater tItan than either Bingham or would soomi become u tt beehive bechle of oC mIning t tIp Old would lie be 1 The Tho Thenon non new gold camp of Atlanta would be o easy UI reach amid ami It Il Is worth reaching Cor by any railroad In Iii T Shiver SIler King and a score of other good Ills dis nets II ie being held belch In abeyance ani only because th they lack Jack facIlities would become stonily contributors of oC revenue CLOSE TO 10 Hero Is somethIng else for time the mon man mona management a of oC tIme the raIlroad to take Into Dy By choosing tIme the Bristol PMS pass way for 01 a change elmange ot of route time the proposed line hue not he be to exceed 40 10 or 01 45 15 n lo away Poe It might work stork to the tho advantage of th S Salt t Lerko lAko Houte to build a cots con connection with this road making makinI nn an ox ex excellent east cast and west as well as north anti and south TIme patronage that would bo be do derived rived front from Spring anti and other veil val hoyt front rom that hint va t region which s tIme tho Oneota Irrigation project I is to Dut It would be tremendous In hit a test rew years It to us that time tho reasons set sel forth why the Salt Lake Lako road rOld should buIld across Bristol pass pals are aro able PO Possibly tl II age would ho bo a lIttle on But the tho dIfference not remount amount to much accord accordIng Ing to tile tho opInion or of men competent to jUdge this could lie be than eom for tor by the making o of better betler time rend a corresponding rc cc In expenses Them ThelO would bo be no chance for serious wash synch washouts outs and time the that soon would be e developed l along llong thc tho Bristol SUIO survey would before tho management could s scarcely realize It pay the cost or of con |