Show i MOFFAT SURVEYORS THIS SIDE OF OE CRAIG Nety Houte ill fill Shorten Distance From Denver Cl to Stilt S t Lake J load hilts to Cost 3 The Dotsero cutoff line Is to be caned called the Denver Salt alt Lake Western West West- ern It will cost and wIll wIllbe willbe be completed b by the time the Moffat tunnel Is finished fin shed according to W. W R R. R Freeman as quoted In the Denver Post Articles of Incorporation for Colorados Colorado's new railroad were filed in Cheyenne two weeks ago Filings of plats and surveys sUr were made malle In the office of the United States land office in Glenwood SprIngs The road miles long connects connects connects' con con- the present lines of f the Denver Salt Lake Moffat road at Orestod Orestod Ore Ore- with the line of the Denver Rio hio Grande Crande Western Vestern at Dotsero nn and reduces reduces- the rail distance between be- be tween Denver and Salt Lake City by miles mUes Because It will form the lint establishing the shortest transcontinental transcontinental trans trans- continental railroad line It Is expected expected ex- ex that the line when completed completed com com- will handle a volume of traffic The road has been completely financed said President W. W R. R Freeman Monday All arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- ments have been made for Its construction construction con con- and It will be completed about the time the Moffat tunnel is The corporation which will build the new road is is- is s- s from the Denver Salt Jake Laks railroad which Is now in the panda of a receiver Reports In circulation Monday indicated indicated in- in that the force of fifteen engineers en- en tn- tn rs which a months ago COIn COIn- new survey for the Dotsero Dot Dot- zero sero after aCter five fhe months spent J In the field hag been transferred to beyond Craig anel anelis is to sune survey a new route for the extension extension ex- ex tension of the Denver Salt Lake road to Salt Lake City Such an extension ex- ex tension tenson It built would cost from 30 million dollars to 35 million dol- dol lars The now new road will follow In a t general way the route of the proposed propos propos- ed Glenwood Springs branch of the tte Moffat road said President Free Free- man It will be different n various aspects however and is a much better better bet bet- ter route than the old survey provided pro pro- vided etl forThe for The maximum gradient of our survey is but 3 of 1 per cent When it Is considered that the road will bo be bunt built in the heart of th the Ro Rocky k mountains this Is really an I extraordinary fact The sune survey provides for the tracking double of eleven miles of the new line Uno We Ve naturally expect a a. heavy business over this line when it is' is completed The Tho maximum curvature will be beI I but ten degrees which Is for a mountain road There 1 will bo but four curves with this curvature Cur most of thorn them being t loss less than eight degrees two Forty per cent of the tho new road rond will be tangent line that is 18 absolutely straight and without even eyen I I 1 the slightest curves The liTho present distance from Denver Denver Den Den- ver to Dotsero by way ay of the tho Denver Rio Grande Western Is miles D By way ay of the Moffat line BJ as it Is at t present and the new Dener Denver Den Den- ver er Salt Lake Western it Swill III be b but 1931 miles This will reduce the present distance by 1493 miles The Tho Moffat tunnel when completed II r reduce duce the distance on that Brio by 2531 miles so that the total saving sav- sav ing In distance between Denver Den and Salt Lake will be miles The completion of the cutoff will save nave front from one to two days in the of transcontinental freight over the tho time now required b by way of Pueblo There will be a very small amount of tunnel work ork on the th which will be miles mile new line I long Capitalization of the now road as shown Jn in the articles of tion Js Is only nominal |