Show PROPOSED RAILROAD CHANGES twenty miles of for the southern pacific it is rumored in railroad circles that at a recent meeting of the directors odthe of the southern pacific held in san francisco it was decided to change the tile roadbed of blat that railroad for about seventy one miles between orden ogden and the lake so us as to void the present foot climb and descent on the promontory mountains the company finds the cost of operating that particular piece of road very expensive in fit the consumption of fuel and wear and tear to rolling stock A new piece of track to the sonth donth of the present lineman line inay mav be more expensive to build or at least just as costly as the old one but in III the long run it would be much cheaper r bebau because e of its being a level piece of road roa and to a great extent a tangent the tile great salt lahe rum runs close by lake station and the contemplated plan is to either build eight miles of trestle eastward from the neighborhood of 1 lake tick a 0 station right along the shore of the lake toa to a point where the mountains terminate or to go a little farther out from front ill the e shore and build twenty miles of trestle from the tile eastern end of which the new line would practically run ran straight into ogden no decision however however has yet been reached in the matter it is thought that had not necessia necessity essit y forced the tile central pacific people to build bull by the pres present nt route they would have selected the one now being considered the congressional act under whish the road was constructed compelled its projectors to build east until a connection was made with the union pacific the tile latter was met at the summit of the promontory mountains and arid the central pacific people had bad no other alternative than to join the other line there |