Show AS SEEH FROM ABROAD tho way the railroad situation presents itself from the east the big dea s in ahe railroad world offer bood tiding lo 10 and sug rest atut now is inc lime tho burlington road is coming to osden the above is the remark made to the writer yesterday by W C weaver manager of the ogden city street railway who recently returned from a trip to the cast mr weaver made a special study of the railroad situation while he was in the east and having formerly been well up in the roads councils was able to learn more perhaps than another could he said in addition that the road will not go to salt lake it may not get in here for two years he said 1 ut it will surely come further sir weaver says the situation impresses him with the fact thai not only the burlington but also the chicago will come to ogden it been a light the roads and the union pacific all along and the entrance of the illinois central into omaha makes a new disturbing factor in cho chicago northwestern field heretofore the union pacific has depended upon the C N W for its eastern bu but the coming into juaha of tho illinois central a road caned by the harriman syndicate gives the union pacific a chicago con aarion more closely in touch with it than is the chicago northwestern controlled by the interests at present the union pacific is try in to cater to both the C N W anaf the illinois central but this mr weaver says cannot last and ban it comes to a rupture there can be no question as to what tho C N W will do the C N W built out to casper wyoming several ears ago and the U M went one step further and extended its line to billings montana the union pacific granted the concessions tor by the C N W and tu B M made a traffic agreement wit the U R G and both the big roads stopped building and there the thing has stood till now tiro illinois central completed its for getting into omaha and the burlington this time the aggressor gres sor took up the line of march westward developing the country and opening up new fields as it came it has reached tho immense iron deposits in the neighborhood of hartville wyoming and is reaching out for the coal beds lying some 75 miles south of the iron mines it has in addition to this a survey lown north laralle Lar amle canyon and run a long dis tanco besides to the west headed for ogden in the meantime the union pacific has absorbed the oregon short line and the 0 R N giving it a complete comy lete line to the coast in the north and has obtained an option on the utah pacific which has only about the same distance to build to reach los angeles as have the B M and lie C N W to reach ogden the next move then is tor the union I 1 to extend tho utah on to tho coast for tho C N V to build in from ats wyoming terminus to a with the C P and for the B M to come to ogden and go from hero to the coast tills makes ogden the terminal point for the three arms ot the union pa one reaching to tho pacific at pc aland another to the pacific at san dego the third with a double track mil imil i the great lakes at chicago and extending down to tho gulf of mexico ogden will be the terminus of the northwestern and of the southern pacific with its double track ogden to san francisco and of the B M ogden will be the terminus of the R G W reaching the east through abo connecting lines and penetrating the south developing the wondrous wealth in coal and iron that lira hidden just beneath the surface of iron and other southern counties A net work of feeders will give this the power to distribute the products of factories and shops and of our fields and mines to the remote quarters of the country and the name of ogden will be one with which to enchant the cosmopolitan seeking opportunity and wealth |