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Show A RAILROAD FROM OGDEN TO NORTHWEST. Surveyors are running lines north from Promontory Point and a persistent persist-ent rumor haa It that the Oregon Short Line la to build a road Into Ida ho and Oregon which -will bo a shorter line to the northwest than tie present route from Granger to Focatello and on west. This news. If confirmed, would do much to stimulate the growth of Og-den. Og-den. as the building of a cut-off from Promontorr Point Wild bo equivalent to building the road out of Ogden. Tho surveying gangs havo been in the field for some time and one Hno has been slaJtod up the west, sldo of Promontory Point, skirting the lake. Thoao who havo Investigated tho movements of tho surveyors have been informed that. preliminary survey ehows that a . line of low gradients, with - no - mountain ranges to cross, can be constructed con-structed which will reduce the distance over the Harrlman lines to Portland, Seattle and the Northwest sixty miles as compared with the Granger route.' The present Oregon Short Line, starting at Granger, goesy through a desert region whore heavy grades are encountered in crossing the mountains to Montpeller, Idaho. With a cut-off out of Ogden to the northwest passenger passen-ger travel coming this way would avoid the desert and slow mountain climbing and make better time than Is now made on the Granger route If a railroad is built out of Promontory Promon-tory Point, the Ogdeu-Lucin cut-off will be double tracked from Ogden and trains for fie Northwest will be diverted di-verted at this point, The Harriman officials apparently tee enough morit in this proposed cutoff cut-off to warrant the keeping of a large purveying party in tho field. With the building of such a cut-off, rocutello would be reduced in activity as a railroad terminal and shop center cen-ter and Ogden would be correspondingly correspond-ingly made more important A road to the Northwest from tjo edge of Great ,Salt Lake would help develop a vast empire of rich land awaiting the coming of transportation facilities and the line would help to keep out a road which already has been surveyed by the Goulds. |
