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Show is somewhat local. The Gould road3 have Salt Lake on their main line and they are laboring for tho upbuilding of that city, claiming that eventually they will profit most by everything which adds to Salt Lake's growth. Paralleling the Gould road3 from 40 to 50 miles north, are tho Harriman roads with Ogden similarly situated as to those roaxb a3 is Salt Lake to the Gould lines. The same argument applied to Ogden, should persuade the Harriman people that by lending their support to the future greatness of Ogden, they will be serving their own interests to better advantage than by joining in boosting for the territory which must, of necessity, contribute most to Denver & Rio Grande and Western Pacific prosperity. I simply in the air and they may never be constructed, but the survey sur-vey from -Saline to Rupert, which is among the proposed roads given on tho Weber club map, is said to have been approved by Julius Kruttschnitt and will receive attention when the Harriman system recovers re-covers from its present fit of retrenchment. The Oregon Short Line, from Granger to Pocatello, is said to be congested with traffic. To relieve that undesirable condition, it will be necessary to double track the Union Pacific from Granger to Ogden and construct the Saline-to-Rupert cut-off, and that is a move which cannot long be delayed without subjecting the management to criticism for failing to provide against blockades and interrupted traffic. The Denver & Rio Grande, at a time when that road wa3 supposed sup-posed to be burdened with a debt beyond the ability of the system to sustain, suddenly announces that its main line is to be double tracked into Ogden. This rejuvenation of the old Gould line is something some-thing which prompts the question, "Is there new blood and new money in the road from over the mountains?" It further suggests the query, "Is the Harriman sj'stem, with its unsurpassed record of achievement in improvements, to allow itself to be displaced by the Denver & Rio Grande at the most critical period in the affairs of western railroads?" The Western Pacific, a Gould connection, is bidding for California Cali-fornia and Oriental trade and is making odious comparisons with the Southern Pacific and its connections, inviting attention. With the Western Pacific spreading out, expanding, growing and challenging chal-lenging competition, can the Harriman people afford to drop down rom the high standard of expansion heretofore maintained and How the Goulds to displace them, first in aggressiveness and final-y final-y in prestige and business? One phase of this rivalry is not often touched upon, because it , NEW RAILROADS VEST OF OGDEN. j 1 The railroad map lately placed on the walls of the Weber club: outlining proposed roads to be built by the Harriman system to the west of Ogden, has traced on its surface a cut-off from the old Carson Car-son & Colorado narrow gauge, beginning near Basalt on the California-Nevada boundary, and running northeasterly to a connection connec-tion with the Southern Pacific either at Eattle Mountain, Palisado or Elko, Nevada. Were such a line to be constructed, say to Elko, it would be a far more desirable short route to Southern California than the San Pedro, as it would pass through a country where something some-thing more than horned toads and lizards thrive and where the stretches of desert, unlike the San Pedro wastes, arc here and there relieved by an oasis, a fertile valley and wooded mountain range. The map discloses the fact that half a dozen surveys have been made in Nevada, from the Southern Pacific north into Oregon. Two lines have been run from Wells, one from Wells to Burley and another an-other from Wells to Nampa, Idalio. There is a proposed ft-"- " j:. tti. ley to Wciser, Idaho, and one from Wadsworth north to Klamath Falls. The road out of Wadsworth is to be built this winter, the steel rails having been ordered Slivered at Wadsworth bv the head of-ficials of-ficials of the Southern Pacific. The prorjo3cd lines livui winnemucra and Wells, no doubt, are |