Show RAILROADS FOR OGDEN there is a revival of alio newspaper building of railroads into salt lake city but how the new roads are to reach that city ia only vaguely told we had supposed when chief engineer berry ol 01 the union pacific gave up the task of trying to find a route into aalt lake that the last had been heard of direct cuts into the capital but we in that ve gave credit for too much good sense to the salt lake newspaper railroad boomers three months arc said to have been given to surveying and investigating the pos ability of getting a transcontinental ime through the range other than by way of weber canyon and not a feasible route north of the rio grandc western nor south of the union pacific could to found tunnels were proposed eliat would have cost millions and yet the mighty peaks of the wasatch declined to yield a hamway that boult leave ogdan off the main line this is a part of the triumph gained in the cut oil fight which has not been dwelt upon but it will prove a most important factor in ogdena future it minely means that no road having need asfor eastern or western connections and expecting to handle through traffic can build in to utah norl li of the rio grando western without reaching og dan the burlington the san pedro and all other roads reaching out from the cast to the meat or from the west to alic east must place ogden on their right of way and cither go through weber or ogden canyon the san padro can make connections with the rio grande western system at or near aa lina or price but it cannot build in to salt jake J ake with ita main line and continue the rails on east without being forced by the geography of the country and the demands of modern railroading to build to ogdan and thence through the laatch waatch by the deep defiles in alic range which are known aa the weber and ogdan canyons th dark road M aid to be already maneuvering for a right of way from salt lake to thence up ogden canyon iu order to get into wyona burlington naw haa its terminus unless the salt lake abt angeles san pedro road obtains each B it is absurd to talk of tho line being built into lake anil likewise the proposed denver lines parallel the rio grande there is only one other route open to them and that is to come in to ogden by the can yona to the east of tah place |