Show SOUTHERN PACIFIC CUTOFF A prominent railroad man was asked if there was any truth to the rumor that the Southern Pacific had decided to seek some other route west from here other than that a across ross the lake The question pro provoked provoked a smile of pity that a newspaper man should take up a rumor so 50 b baseless eless and then the answer came cameNo cameNo No Why should the Southern Pacific go south of the lake or i north while our present line from here to Wells is 35 miles shorter than is the Western Pac ics line from Salt Lake City to the same point We can run a 0 train from Wells over the cutoff to Ogden and t r on to Salt Lake Lako over the Short Line and outdistance ac any We Pacific train starting at the WIle time and the same place Why Because in that distance we have hse better grades and curves eunes and there is only two difference There is no survey west of here equal tO that of the present line of the Southern Pacific The railroad official volunteered the statement that instead of the importance of Ogden ns as a railroad town being lessened by the lake scheme present plans call for a new road from Ogden over the cutoff to Saline and aDd then north into Idaho and across to the prestige or of this Oregon to Portland which will ill add greatly city as a railroad center i Our opinion is the railroad official spoke the truth Ogden n has ahead from a railroad point of view nothing but bright prospects I |