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Show ' that there Is much to induce the Could people to abandon that stretch of road and continue to run their westbound trains to Ogden and, later on, send them west over the Ogden-Lucln Ogden-Lucln trestle to Welle, Nevada, WESTERN PACIFIC SHOULD " ;COME TO OGDEN. A prominent Southern Pacific engineer, engi-neer, who hag been reading the-Stand-aid'.s editorials pointing out the advantages ad-vantages to be gained by the Gould people, if they were to ebandon the Weetern Pacific over the bottomless mud flats to the west of Salt Lake , City and join with the Harriman peo-j peo-j pie in a donblf track over the Ogden-j Ogden-j Lucln cut-off and on to Wells, says the ; present Southern Pacific line affords a I shorter routo to Wells by about the : distance from Ogden io Salt Lake : and the Rio Grande trains could make better time from Salt Lake via Ogden and over the cut-off to Wells, where the Western Pacific crosses the Southern South-ern Pacific, than can be made over tho present lino of the Western Pacific. Pa-cific. After crossing the lake bottom, where for eight miles the road is sustained on solid planking which may sink out of sight In the twinkling of an eye, the Weetern Pacific goes through Silver Zone and Flower Lako . passes beforo reaching the valley ex- I j tending north to Wells. There aro , no 6uch grades on the Southern Pa-' Pa-' clfic, between hero and Wells, as are ' j encountered In those two passes, so |