Show MOFFAT LINE IS NOW ASSURED it will cross the reser and it ran into salt lake lape city it has bacri u announced by david 11 moffat that work on the line denver northwestern and Paci pacific will ellb b push ed from front its present terminus tur minu minus steam boat bt springs colo west of denver to pr prove ova utah on thewalt lake route and the denver and rio grands grand thirty miles south of salt lake city construction of twenty milea miles from steamboat springs to blayden will begin shortly the moffat roid as broje projected ted will extended in an air line from denver to bait balt lake wo miles creasing the Continent iol divide thirty miles from denver and west through th 3 valleys of the green yampa and white river rivers which drain a mountain locked plateau practically miles long and miles wide of virgin territory rich in timber coal and ore with farming possibilities the union pacify enters denver into cuming then west turns mortn while the denver and drol 9 south and turns turna i west est ft to salt I 1 lake ake the moffat route city both paralleling but about too miles wide on either oldo tildo and separated by mountains mountain J rhedis inadi haqq all girled the formidable manre thirty milea miles west wt of duner th I 1 ac no has croom crossed ed the divide and horseshoe to loops 0 ps by fa alla snake ke route to bore bare a tunnel but lut it ia its n now ow proposed six miles lore long w which aich would cut out twenty seven nilles miles of circuitous line with I 4 per cent geidt 9 aud aul reduce the Maxi maximum mun of the who whole its ty to 2 rr pr cent ahe he fact jact that the road ret 9 eold old market would teem seen to tend notes it in the lipport to the tile statement ment ef of mr moffat that at tange ments ha have ve been made with new york th inhere interests to finance work to COMPI tion heretofore the work of cross ng the mountain mountains wa so 30 gigantic that the tile road was never that little taken serious seriously ly itwara prophesied more woud be done thai than to enter the miner miners and timber landa lands end and seek ill a permanent terminus at steam boat springe springs this recent announcement puts a ne phase pha upon the situation and the of the read road loomus loom up strong in ill connection with other ouda roads i that to advantage could in anke ake traffic in or still better control it t mr nir moffat haa that his road wa was not being built in the he interest of any largo large system nor would it become the link fur a continental aa as there would ic lc enough traffic originating dent in the territory to make it Ind epen neither the union pacific nr n r denver and rio grinde gr inde both loth having haing their own routes from denver to bait balt lake well established would find the difference of fifty miles in distance sufficient grounds to warrant its absorption but aba buril ston ton tl ti c chicago and north and the rock island could use the nw line aa as a it lin lim to the 1 c slope ahe I 1 he cost to date of the line ha has been about OW oi ot sone so ao ne nc per ink milt and the road jl two fifths corn com with th st construction 1 behind it it will batill rt much i giroo and money traina trains aarein are in from jam to icat lake yet the mattat lino line and iia its owners are destined to be a factor in the tile tra transportation ns por satiation |