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Show NEW ELECTRIC LINE FROM OGOEN NORTH That ib good news which foretells of the building of an electric railroad from Ogden to Preston. Idaho Local Lo-cal capitalists have been planning , some time to connect Ogden with Logan Lo-gan by an electric car service and I eoon we may hear of work on the road having started through the canyon can-yon east of Bngham city In the meantime another group of investors is completing arrangements to construct con-struct a railway through Ogden can-1 yon. on to Eden and across the divide Into Cache alley and on north to Prestcn. Within the week word has -4jeen received thai $6,000,000 in bonds have been plac?d with French capitalists and the money is now available. An electric railway through th 1 Ogden gorge and across the summit of the Wasatch would prove to be a scenic line without equal. The route g many miles shorter than any other oth-er from Ogden to the towns of Cache valley and the line, if protected against heavy storms in the middle of winter, should be a' big success.! Now that a network of electric lines Is to cover the country between Ogden and the northern part of Cache valley, the next development thereafter is to be looked for in the direction of Burley, Idaho The Har riman roads are slow In completing the gap In the Saliue-to Burley line, and this failure to open to the richest rich-est part of southern Idaho direct communication with the commercial centers ol Utah and the Intermoun tain territory ;s a standing invitation invita-tion to men of money, Interested in electric railways to invade the field The Bamberger line between Ogden Og-den and Salt Lake has demonstrate that a steam road can be robbed of nearly all its passenger travel by trolley competition, and that fact alone may tempt Investors to build a road from Ogden to the most pop ulous part of the Gem state. Electric lines are not only city makers fTut country builders as well, and the more the region north of us Is marked with roads of that kind, the greater will be the growth of Og den and all the territory tributary. If a well constructed interurban line Is built from Ogden to Preston, the Chicago & Northwestern, which Is gradually stretching out toward the western boundary of Wyoming, will be tempted to hasten construction construc-tion to that point as a means of participating in the heavy traffic that originates "n that part of Utah from Ogden north. |