Show I a CUTOFF HARRIMAN AND in reviewing the lifes work orle of E EH EH H Harriman the Chicago Tribune do dc dares the tho Osden cutoff will wil stand as the mans greatest achieve mont from the point or Of ilow of con can That paper Impel says sas the ho Harriman pol polIcy I Icy C of oC physical construction was nev ne nevor or so well illustrated as In the build buildIng ing of the famous cutoff between Osden Utah and Lucin Lucht Nevada across the lie Great S Salt lt Lake and the desert b by which Hi miles of road which contained ton ten complete circles or of curvature and 1515 foot feel vertical of lilts lifts was eliminated When ordered the work commenced the directors and even een the engineers were skeptical but millions were voted anti and the tho engineers started There Thore wore sinks anti bottomless pits which Harriman Instructed should be filled without thought of quitting until finally miles of level leel road was ns completed and on oi which the operating men of the tho Pacific figured a savIng of to in the first year or of service senico and no account was taken of the tho traffic facilities added by the improvement t Yet when the tho cutoff was well under consideratiOn n and I and Hood Flood appeared in I I I Salt Lake to hear the protests of the brillIant minds of that city both gentlemen were insulted the they por In declaring that the cuLo cutoff could be built and Hood arc entitled to stand with Harriman in inthe inthe the his hIstory Lor of this undertaking as upon them fell Cell the responsibility of I the feasibility of the thc great trestle and th they r said Yes the cutoff can be built buill to the tho great profit of the tho Harriman roads We are arc not surprised to learn that Julius Is spoken of as successor lie He of nil all men menIs menis Is most familiar with the properties of the roads which make malto makeup up the Harriman system His ability I imi If written Into o every y mile of road I |