Show MIDLAND WOULD I CHOP CHOPOFF OFF MILES I I II Expects I Expects to Reduce Salt Lake Lake- Denver Route by Fifty of Them I MAKE THE GRADE EASIER General Manager nfl u IJ Tips Off OfT I of fit HI Ills Road for tur Capturing Cup CUll turing U r 1 n Truffle I I S j how flow to slice off oft another 60 miles of th the distance between bI Salt Snit Lake Lak and I Denver I is a time the engineering department of the tho Colorado MidlandS Midland nd railroad has hos been pondering over for or more more- than five tl years ears with little progress pro- pro gross gress toward It its solution until tho the last three months More Ioro hn has been done this year however than In the time previous previous pre pre- Ious five years and it Is ls the opinion of ot George Vallery general manD manager r o of the road that hat the plans plan of oC tho the compan company com corn pan pany will mat materialize Vh When n asked for or dat dates as ns to when construction work would begin however howe he changed the subject and b began gan to talk of th gratifying grat grat- I If hying prospects for tor large increases increases In tJ passenger traffic this season for fOI Western West Vest estern est est- em ern roads road in general and the lie Colorado Midland In particular The new line being considered se seriously so- so b. b by the Colorado Midland will wm extend from rein Denver Den to Lake George Colo Cob said Mr Valiery allery yesterday The Time route considered ll is along the Platte river In a southerly direction and surveys SUr show how the line lino io to be about 74 miles long This Tills would cut off offa a a. little less los th than n 50 miles between Denver Den and Salt Lake alee making the thc Colorado olora o Midland Rio Midland Rio Grande route about miles shorter between Salt Lake and anel Denver than the route b by byway way vay of Springs Colorado and Pueblo Su Sun Save Mile Mile- ami mul Grade The saving a In miles would be the main feature of oC the new nest road Toad but re re would also be a n saving in III grade that would show up prominently In Inthe Inthe the operating expenses of ot the road The Platte river route would not be bemore bemore bemore more than two per pet c cOat cont nt grade In com com- parIsI on lIh tho the 3 3 and 4 per c cent erit nt grade o of the present line When hen it comes to scenic attractions theres there's hardly a square mile in Colorado that thatIs Is hot about the finest In the world and end the tho canyon of ot the Platte Is Inthe Inthe in inthe the front rank Tank with an any in th timm state Mr Ir Vall Valiery Vallery fy said Raid the Colorado Midland Mid Mid- Ild- Ild lan land auth expected to put on a string of 01 now dining tears June 15 We We 0 expected ex- ex expected ex lx to to have them In service this week he lie said but the builders disappoInted disappointed dis dis- appointed u us putting In some good good- sounding excuses about the time Impossibility ity ty o of getting r material Mr Jr Valiery Vallery J left t for or Denver last Jast night nl ht l i his Jils private car Cascade |