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Show ! FROM OGDEN TO IDAHO ACROSS LOTS The Oregon Short Line Is moving i so slowly toward the building of th Saline to Burley cutoff that the West, em Pacific promises to get ahead of the Hani man road. It is well known that the Denver &. Rio Grande, at the time the Western Pacific was first considered, planned to build north from OgdeD to central Idaho, but Could was so ambitious to I have a transcontinental line that he j sacrificed his original plans and or-Idered or-Idered work started on the Salt Lake j to the coast road. This move on the part of Denver & Rio Grande Is now generally conceded to have been a serious mistake Had the Gould roadi built north from Opden at that time. I the original Investment would have l--pn returned to the Gould treasury before this and in the meantime a great feeder for the entire Gould system would have been established There Is talk of the Western Pacific Pa-cific constructing a road north from Wells. Nevada, to Twin Falls, Idaho The Gould roads should not make a second blunder by again ignoring the greater advantages to be gained by going north from Ogden, either by the Saline route or through the Promontory range, to the granary of Idaho. Ogden is the dividing point between be-tween the east and the west From here grain and farm products move east to the big markets or west and south to the coast. While the Wells line might shorten the distance to San Francisco, that route would be an impossible im-possible one for east-bound traffic; and furthermore, there is a big local business between Utah and Idaho points which could not be touched by the circuitous connection through Wells. nn . |