Show I 1 t THE CHICAGO N W I 1 I 1 A gigantic scheme for extending 11 41 THE HUE IN WEST TO OGDEN making the longest road on the continent FROM NEW YORK TO OGDEN A company known as tho the wyom wyoming ing utah railway company organized I 1 with a capital or s I 1 oooo I 1 several days ago THE tim STANDARD contained an account ot of a railroad project ahall on the tile face pave give evidence of twin a it continuation 1 of the chicago L orth northwestern western from fort casper wyoming to ogdon tile story hag has now been verified and work on the exten 0 eion fion has already begun the rocky mountain news of denver in III a recent issue contains cont ainsa a special II 11 dis from which for tile I 1 lint air t time gives to the world the full particulars tic ulars of the gigantic enterprise tho the wyoming utah railway company lias has filed articles of incorporation to build a line from cam casper p er the terminus I 1 oi the northwestern system to ogden the company is capitalized at and the list of directors dir octora includes the names oi charles A sherman and F P I 1 S weatherby of iowa ormond rambo I 1 rf if philadelphia A C smith of sul suffolk tolk 0 i and J A van yan horn of i lincoln nebraska the railroad is the continuation of the fremont rr emont elkhorn missouri valley line from fremont Nebra nebraska eka and arid really from F sioux cita it is in fact a continuation of tile chicago north c ibern and perfects for the tire vanderbilt system tile longest rail railway 0 on tt the S continent n tin C n t I 1 from ro ni N new e w yo york r 1 fi city t ant to ID ogden del when the elkhorn was projected into northwestern nebraska and central wyoming the wyoming eastern com company pally wa to build from ogden to meet the western bound road at douglas six milea miles down the north platte river from od old port fort fetter inan wan the survey was made following down rises near nea r tile western ae boundary boun daiT of wyoming and runs in a straight line cast to a function with the north platte thirty miles from por for some reason further furt lier progress ress was stopped and ind the elkhorn lias has been stick sticking ing up like a eore thumb at that point for four years it has proved it at very valuable cattle shipping feeder to the tile northwestern although its local business in other respects has been lose leiss than if it it had be been en as it now will be a transcontinental route the gigantic ar gantic mistake of the projectors of the union pacific road which corn compelled its construction along the difficult route in southern wyoming has never been clearly understood instead of climbing feet over sherman hill and dropping drop ing down on either side as it if into a wet well It hoUnion the union pacific could as easily have followed a natural water writer grade along the north platte and availed L vai led itself of the very route the elkhorn now will traverse trav oreo upon the sweetwater u at er the tile effect of thia this continuation c of 4 the elkhorn 1 line on to ogden and a junction with witt tile southern pacific will be anark marked ed in both the development of central contral wyoming and the divorcing of the juniou pacific and the northwestern it may lead to the more sensational phase of railroad mattere matte re that the tl I 1 present managers ot of the if union dion pa pacific ic may inay throw it ba back ck on the government as they may be interested in i 11 the tile new extension of course this is all problematical and mere theorizing but this movement coming eo so close after the death of jay bould appears somewhat remarkable as tire money market is not better now than it was two three or four years ago for months past rumors have been 1 afloat concerning gigantic operations in in tile development of Wv wyoming oming A company was formed forni xi a year ago with a capital of to develop property in various parts of the state thousands thou ands of acres of coal lands that have hitherto laid idle for the tile want of transportation facilities were to be brought within range tange of the market the tile iron mines stone quarries marble deposits and a chain of of soda lakes which have attracted the attention of both scientists and investors vero to contribute to the tile prosperity of the state and the tile entire west est several ogden parties arc are interested in the tile coda soda lakes and already taz a movement is on oil foot for their I 1 further ur develop development tile movement clit is regarded as one of the most important railroad ra programmed pro grammes that hag has been marked out for years it means itie ansa a great transcontinental aftem with the union U nion ila 1 a in tile field to copo I 1 of ono one of tile in most est ivicin in the traelic fertile regions of the globe engineer E ngi ricer ashton of tho union pacific estimates that the now line will require at least miles of f construction at a foat tot to t of not less than lies of I 1 alio it 0 opinion thai that tile road may be built in two years although it may IL 0 ty require reil roil tho tile winters arn ar too three years as bevere to admit of 0 out it door work in in me the mountains alio road is of construction tile transportation ot of vi workmen nd supplies ii el will give e a big I 1 boom to the union pacific the road once built it Is pro I 1 by railroad men t that I 1 t tin the earnings of the land grant company COL anally will ill be reduced 25 t to 0 30 per cent ino the northwestern react ing out from air centers oi cago to many leading business busin its the mississippi valley will turn rn through traelic along tho tile main artery he tile leading to ogden and thence over 1 at arttie the southern pac pacific to tile coast ap bame same time the presence arese prese of buch such a lor for 11 would anfu ia new Ini li dable co competitor energy into atile the union pacific and its thousands eL 0 of shipping points aa far south mouth as th the gulf if |