Show extensions the railway age which is generally looked upon as a reliable newspaper is authority tor the statement that will be begun in a short while upon an extension of the northwestern from its present ten ninus at casper wyo to ogden utah from this as the main line a branch will be built south to rawlins and another to lander the extension to ogden means bays the denver republican the establishment of another competitor for transcontinental traffic and it is alie opinion of some persons that the new line will bo the most formidable of all the fact eliat this road would bo built was one of tho arguments advanced at the recent meeting of the denver chamber of commerce in favor of building the proposed line from denver to salt lake by way of middle park it was said that the arth westerns wyoming line would have so many advantages eliat it would secure a largo part of alie transcontinental travel and that therefore a better line should be built in order to cause the travel to pass through denver from chicago to ogden by way of the union distance is 1523 miles from chicago to the present terminus of the northwestern the distance is 1102 miles from there to ogden the distance by a practicable railway route is between miles the route by way of denver and the white river would bo about the same as the northwestern but if the denver road were extended to an francisco from alio point where it is proposed to cross alie Wasat cli mountains gays alio republican this line across the continent would be couch the shorter of the two this is on the supposition that the burlington would be used between chicago and denver and eliat alio western extension would pass considerably to the south of salt lake city these extensions of the northwestern system in wyoming will be of enormous value to that state regions will bo opened up which are tar removed from railroads 4 now and it may be that there aul wul be areat activity in ane development of the wyoming oil felds the prosperity of t wyoming Is in a measure alie prosperity of denver and so alio construction of these extensions except in so far as transcontinental travel may be diverted is a matter over which denver will have reason to rejoice eliat is undoubtedly true yet wo apprehend that ogden being the western terminus of the northwestern will be in a position to reap some of alio advantages which will accrue from being connected by rail with the best part of wyoming |