Show 11 AILWAY what mat are ira the intentions of or the 1110 grande western lVe AI 11 tha local officials in ire not very comal ratite bat but from th the duoM madi lade Is all ill light the dispatch W which lich appeared in in THE tim STANDARD yesterday relative to colonel dilges statement of the II 11 G W extension to the pacific coast via ogden created a sensation for sometime past it has las been known that colonel dodge had bis his eye on the pacific coast two routes bad had bean be in under consideration and hare have been noticed by the press qu quite its 0 often its n one was to leave loave aping sp ing ville in middle utah towards and across the desert to california the other is via oglon og ion so far as expressions have been dropped by of the road it w 0 a id seem that ogden will prove the favorite route yesterdays dispatches confirmed the rumors and announced the completion of the survey to the mountains the road will probably go north up to the malad country and then strike straight west to california this acut r uti i will certainly be far R ahead b a d of the southern athern eo line it will p pass ass north through one of the most fertile valleys in utah and idaho end nd then pass west through a rich mineral county 0 ty the beckwith pass will probably be used through the tile mountains the road taking a southwesterly direction from idaho into middle nevada novada and thence west to keno near the california line the benefit that ogden would derive from this line is incalculable it will give another outlet to the coast much of the L shipping hipping from the pacific c to the atlantic atlant ic coast or vice versa now sent by steamers will come this this way and pass through here the extension of the line will necessitate other improvements which will doubtless follow in their time and of which ogden will doubtless receive her share it is one of the grea greated tet things for ogden and the success of the little giant want is sincerely to be hoped ho rd for the b denver news among other things thin has the following to say on this important subject the rio grande western is 13 in a PC position to take possession of that downtrodden territory between og den and the coast I 1 it is away ahead of all competitors having penetrated to ogden and established a profit profitable abl a traffic t it can show the biggest aca scale I 1 a of increase In creasa in earnings over the past year of any road about denver if a road ao so young could be operated with almost phenomenal success through a comparatively sparsely epa reely settled tract of country what could it do w when it a n piercing the garden spot of t the h a world and linking the pa pacific C to the atlantic ocean by the ebor test and most direct route the proposition is simply dazzling from a financial point of view and has been thoroughly digested ere this by colonel dodge II 11 A late dispatch from denver announces that general manager dodge ye yesterday berday denied the rumor that his road d was preparing to extend the line from ogden to san francisco the trouble with the dispatch published yesterday berday is not that it was incorrect but lee ut that it was premature the kio grando grande West western ernis is not a corporation accustomed to build its lines on paper |