Show BURLINGTON TO BUILD PACIFIC COASTLINE COAST LINE to start on or Comple- Comple or of Union Tunnel Pacific to Build From m to That two new lines of will be buIlt from Wyoming Into Routt and Moffat counties S' S Is tine the P prediction of the Casper C Tribune 1 dailY n er pu published pub pub- b- b JI lcd In Wyoming in n a recent issue Is- Is sue it saM sald Empire builders will be active In and Colorado early In the lIle new newe year r. r It if now going forward are an Indication This Is Ison 1 on oft the authority of on on of these builders with many performances fit each state and others oth ra in ill prospect The completion of the Moffat munel bring many changes In the he railroad railroad rail rail- road map of the two s states particularly In r It that the Chicago abo Bur Bur- lington Quincy railroad which n now practically controls the Moffat roat road in Colorado has foe fot its val pal design on completion of If life great tunnel the building cf cC a Pacific Pacific Pa- Pa coast line via the Uintah basin and Salt Lake City to Los Angeles The cut ort afforded by br the tunnel the proposed route reduces the shortest existing lute by miles files The tunnel Is at present about 40 per cent complete with men men employed at each end driving ng the tho mammoth hole through the mountain moun- moun tain with the most modern macli nery nery n- n ery the world knows The Union Pacific it is further re- re forted porteLl will build an mile SO-mile stretch from Wyo 0 to Craig Colo Clo affording an n outlet for th greatest t high grade coal held west ot of Pennsylvania and Ohio The TIlo roi route te has been fixed and the eugin engl- engl n ering and profile work worle finished IrL ig attn the tur n nl l plays i s its ts' ts tsp p part i. i I In shortening the distance between DE D liver er Wand and by nil es Wamsutter it it would app appear u Is is desu destined cd to become an Important naJ point Then while these lines are buildIng buildIng build build- Ing there is the North South railroad railroad rail rail- road projected from Miles City Mont t to Casper Wyo with here and there s sections lons of oC the grade completed com com- 1 and 40 miles of at the line In actual operation front from to Salt Creek This Is the line the Haskell Interests were to complete something something some some- thing less than two years ago but they failed and construction was suspended Upon the authority of those concerned concerned con con- It Is learned that the entire North South project will bere financed by New York capitalists I and that the divisions between Ca Casper Cas- Cas per and Miles mes City will be completed as soon loon as It i is possible to make arrangements to resume work The Tho southern halt half of the road whIch was more or less Jess of oC a 11 dream under the U crowd will be made a adream adream dream come coma true by the of oC the tho line Uno from Casper through Rawlins to the coal and oil fields o of and Moffat I Colo j nd ratio The of all this rail roan I construction Is ot of course one thIng j the tho great coal mines which are to tobe be developed d h by the building of the tho railroad lines the tho coal itself being heing of the highest sL quality and capable of Il of being stored for an IndefinIte U time comparing favorably with the best belt eastern bituminous coal mines In Ohio and Illinois As a equal consideration and incentive tive to railroad building are the oil oilfields fields recently diScovered and al- al r roady IY fully proven ant and regarded by bythe bythe the beat bOt Informed experts as a coming com com- lug ing rival for Salt Creek Within u radius ot of 75 miles there are aro over 30 10 yell t eil defined oil structures with wUn 17 of them hem bolus being acU ol The early earh completion of the Moffat tunnel funnel has half spurred into activity th tho o railroad which have havo lain dormant t t years Thu Tho ro On ast Page ge |