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Show I they would be in a better position to bid for Idaho's grain trade with ' ! the Pacific coast. I . Again, the Western Pacific is invited to build west from Ogden, ! paralleling the Ogden-Lucin cut-off, or to make a trackage arrangement arrange-ment with the Southern Pacific from Ogden to Wells. At leasVwhy not allow; members of the Weber club of Ogden to combat, the theory, so tenaciously held to, that the only feasible route is south of the lake? . WHY THEY SHOULD COME TO OGDEN. The storm of last week which swept across Great Salt Lake did .'no damage to the Ogden-Lucin cut-off, but destroyed four miles of the Western Pacific on the south shores of the lake. We are reliably informed that the repeated destruction of the Western Pacific's track has caused new surveys to be made and the Gould people have mapped out a route which will carry the road to higher ground and eliminate the possibility of damage by the waves of the inland sea. But the new route will be 3G miles longer than the present road and will include a slight grade. The puzzling thing to all this blundering on the part of the Western Pacific engineers is that, notwithstanding their experience, they refuse to admit that the south-of-the-lakc route is a failure and a mistake, and they continue to repeat their mistakes. Like Ajax defying the lightning, they are defying Fate and forcing through a plan which, in its inception, was marked for failure. A" railroad competing with the Southern Pacific west of Ogden must have a line equally as good in equipment, in distance, in gradients grad-ients and in curvature. The Western Pacific, by insisting on the south-of-the-lake line, handicaps itself with a mileage that from Salt Lake to Wells is 35 miles longer than the Harriman road from Ogden, Og-den, and under the new survey the Gould road is to be further handicapped handi-capped by an extra 36 miles. If it over comes to the survival of the fittest by reason of intense rivalry, the extra mileage now being attached to the Western Pacific at its eastern end, will destroy that road's prospect of existence. - Eventually the Gould interests must enter Idaho, as that is one r of the most promising fields for the originating of railroad tonnage in all the Wc6t. There is only one route open to them and that is through Ogden to the north. With that extension in view, the Gould j peoplo should recognize the fact that in the near future Ogden must j loom as large on their railroad horizon as does Salt Lake today; j that, with the Western Pacific running directly west from this point, |