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Show 'TERMINAL if GO - TO THE SUMMIT I THEJALK i)i:i:it mi mo (.itAMn: -to it orr ni:i.n:n. JMmt) An of IjiihI ittvntl) Ac-iliilnil Ac-iliilnil Tor ltomnllioiiM Cittng Tor l!inpl(i)i. Miom nnd Otlirr lin prou'iiienti Thrw tjuurtin uf u Million S4XHI to ll Soiil Tlifif. ItMugnlted u one of Anierlcii's foremoiil M-enlc rondu, nnd then-rore trneled to an oxtunt tlmt probably few other llm aro the Denver and Itlo rirando la completing nnother lm-nipnel lm-nipnel pronperoua Mwr, Hiyn tho Chrlalmaa IVneret ICvenlng News, lm freight buslnpM has cxiei-did by nl mot 100 per lent that or hint wir, while that of the tmwenger depart ment linn fallen onl nllghtly below that of tU when the road Mtabllnli-rd Mtabllnli-rd I In record both In proflta and In numlier r people hauled, the year of tho Cnllfornla xKMltlon. Continuing Continu-ing Ita efforts to plaif ltefore the jAnutlian people the magli Menea of iCotoradii and Utah, the comimio has suiedid this er ns It neer did In bringing this stale to niitlir. and to It, ins well ns to the other roads, t'tali owes much for the publlclt) It has re-iielted re-iielted outalda Its own iHiundarle. Whllo last tear at this time this I road and the others had not w much I as mentioned u budget, nnd apprehension appre-hension was felt ngardlng the pos. slbli expenditures ol the iiir. talk Is rlfc about prolnililr cxpendlturs In Utah for 1917 Alrend) tin re has been Included In the budget. )it to bo npprood of course, u two hundred thousand union freight station to Ih built at Halt Uike City by this and the Western I'arlflc the sister Hue until n )car it go. A hundred thousand dollar's dol-lar's worth of heavy steel enough to lay lwent-tlw miles, has been nskid for, and a terminal nnd freight houoc for Soldier Summit, nwtlng three quarters of n million dollars, has lieeii not onl talked of, but Included In the budget unit reusonabl) assure! of up-proal. up-proal. t'artlelpatlng with otht r local nnd iranieuntlnentnl roads In the fabulous freight earnings of the year, nnd In the nlmoat Imposslblo tasks that every road Iihh had to perform to uiiom-modutn uiiom-modutn Its shlppirs, tho Denver nnd Itlo (lrnnde this year has been com-.pellid com-.pellid to buy fifteen hundnd new freight on is. all boxcars, at u tost of over 11,(00,000. With the uddllloiial i equipment, all first-class unit of the latest kind, the comimuy Is able aa never, before to render Immediate sir-vice sir-vice and prevent the annual car shortage short-age that handicaps and flmttielall Injures the farmer, the produier, the shipper nnd tho puhlli Mii'llng I'ri'M'iit NiiiIh. (living their Hitcntlun mther to the enormous possibilities of tho prment, and exerting ever) IHHwIhle i (fort to avail themselves of thiwe opiHirtunl-i opiHirtunl-i ties, tlln odltlslH of this Hue tmve done Utile eonstrui lion extension nr devehqtinent and have sant tlonwl only those exiK'iidltures without whlih the lesults thus fur attained would have been difficult or Impossible An In-iMiund In-iMiund freight yard between Twelfth and Fourteenth South streets at Halt il.ake City, at h cost of Sevent)-flve thousand dollars, represents the only Improvement or note on the I'tah division di-vision This yard, Intended to re-jllevc re-jllevc the coiigestlou of the city yards, 'has been needed for scviral years It lis cainblo of accommodating five hundred cars, which removes uiproxl-I uiproxl-I mutely half tho burden from the city .ard Ho far as Is known, no extension and little, development Is planned for 11117, other than lliu terminal at Hoi-dler Hoi-dler and thn heavy steel hi) lug mentioned. men-tioned. Tlui terminal then Is desired ihlefly on u do unt of the fact that It would give a more iqultubla division of the distance between Halt lnku City and tlrcen ltlver, tin next terminal. ter-minal. In case It Is built, tho Helper termlnul will bo abandoned, and Hot-dler Hot-dler H u nun It wilt bo the housing plnco of tho many engines and other tqulp-lincnt tqulp-lincnt needed for help with the enor-jmous enor-jmous truffle over the summit Thn termlnul, whllo thus fur only tentatively tenta-tively planned and which will not be deflnltft until thn board of dlreitors of the company shall huvn pusseil upon It, Is bxpetted to be one of the first expenditure approved, as It has long been the hellof of tho officluls that the ihungo should be made Thlstlii would bo affecti d unl) In that It would be deprived of tho storing place of the much equipment used on the west side of the summit In assisting trains i to the lop, eti. Tho Denver and Itlo (lrandv Iws suffered considerably from the short-ago short-ago of lalwir. Flvo hundrud more men would have Immui pliteod at work almost al-most u di;' uf tho I Hint year If thn) could havo been found, It Is not rr-talu, rr-talu, but It Is understood to Im a report re-port from officials of the company, that the lack of activity In the line of Improvement and extension this year U In some measure due to thin condition. con-dition. Over thrsu hundred thousand new ties have also been asked fur for the Utah division for the coining year At u cost or sevnt)-flve tents eat h the total expenditure for that number would be upwards of (121,000 t'lnlali Itiislu Project. ! Throughout the entire )ur 191C the company has had Us engineers en-i en-i gugod In the survey of tho proposed I Uintah Ilusln line Whether or not a 'construction campaign will follow the completion of that survey Is considered consid-ered entirely problematic-til. Whether tho purpose of the survey was actually actual-ly to get ready Tor extending Into the wealthy Ulntali and Ashley Vallejs, or to merely glvo uch an Impression and consequently prevent other and competing com-peting line from doing that, Is neither known nor widely conjectured by lo cal officials That through the survey the compan has established a right of way and enabled itself to proceed without other preliminaries, once dc-itslon dc-itslon Is rendered to do that, on the i (instruction of the proposed line. Is at least true Indeed b) some that Is i utisldered the onl) pnrpn of the survey at this time Official hae signified only the Intention to get Into the llasln ns soon n the expenditure would tie warranted or Itefor nny other road enters It When, nr If at all. such a line will be built, utiles seriously threatened and probably begun be-gun by other mmpanie. has not been Intimated and thus far officials visiting visit-ing In Halt lake Clt have declared lg-nornnrn lg-nornnrn on that point Itlght of way maps and plats have been filed, and grants have been made by the land office, so that now the compan)' right of way Is protected, nnd with that preliminary out of the wn), It Is considered possible for this mad to dominate the Uintah llasln situation until at least that territory Is pierced l one and prolstbl) several line ilvcrtMug of Utah. In lis advertisements of Utah a n whole, no other road ha excelled the Denver and Itlo Clrande Hardly n phase of Utah's netlvltle has been left untouched t this company In Its numerous and attractive publications The soil of the lands of this commonwealth common-wealth has been lauded through every other State In tho union, the possibilities possibili-ties In live stock raising, farming, dnlrlng, poultry raising, Irrigation, dry farming, education, social life, obtaining of land nnd soforth have N-eii pictured and de rlbed In numerous num-erous kinds of publications i intituled widely by this company llcaullfiil mene both along and distant from Its lines, have been shown. iHtrtkular reclamation projects, or entire m -lions of the state tributary to or entirely en-tirely seimruted from nnd Independent of the compith). have been exploit d nnd settlers have been nltrailed to imrts of Utah without regard to the roads over which the) were to travel or which might reap the benefit of theli future imtronage Not alone has this extensive and continuous ndvcrtlslu,( mmpnlgu been confined to tho scenic beauty of Utah or Its latent nnd developed wealth, but t'tah's hlsturb iharm has In en widely nnnoumed and Interest In It hns been created In nil imrt of the country The cliff dwellings of the southern IHirt of the slate the Intensely In-tensely Interesting development of Irrigation Ir-rigation hen and kindred topic have hcn carefully nnd exlenslvily recorded record-ed and In utlrartlvi' wn In u In ted among renders ever) when- In the United Mutes On Hound I'lliamlal Footing. Hipurnllou of the Pi liver and Itlo (lrnnde from thn Westi ril I'm Ifli effected ef-fected Just a )enr ago. has placed tho comiKtny with Its road In a nion comfortable com-fortable financial condition than It cnJo)ed during tin )cnrs while tho other line depended to a large measure meas-ure on the Denver nnd Itlo Ornnile for Its financing for the profits to be made by both companies As u result the last year Is the first In which this comiKtny litis been nble to reallxo fully Its own cnHiblllt), nnd during this )cur Its earnings have hi en measured In proportions not hitherto calculated. With this Improving condition, local off Idals consider It not unlikely that the road will shortly begin development develop-ment nnd Improvement that will require re-quire u lurg" imrt of the profits made, and that will dignify the rinid us an Institution For It has been year sine the Denver and Itlo O ramie maili an) noticeable extension or Improvement Im-provement In Utah, other than It new terminal here, and Utah people watch eagerly for It to launch out. Along It" line Us Minn of the finest section of I'lah. und only short distance removed re-moved ure othir sections, )et onl) IHirtlllll) developed, or wholl) undeveloped, unde-veloped, but that could be madn Into wealthy agricultural sections, with onl) railroad facilities to assist tlrom. Ileliig one or thn oldest of the roads, and traversing many of the richest lutrl of the state, tho Denver and Itlo Orandc Is Justly looked upon an olio of tho Imckbono of Utah's Industry und prngiosM. On It ulso depends to u lurgit extent tho stntn's future, and for this reason tho thousands of people resident In thu territory tributary to it await eagerly Ita future coustruutlva uctlvltlos, Tho Denver and Itlo (Iraudn lias for severul month owned ninety acre of hind by purchase ut Soldier Hununtt, which was acquired for terminal pur-to pur-to The yards tin ull survived nnd ready for actual construction work. It Is stated by officials that thn work Is expected to begin next spring With such )nrdugu as I plunned great quantities of inal und other freight would bo nssembled thoru und at that (mint made up Into big trains for dispatching dis-patching over the It 111 west. Only u portion of Helper, It Is claimed, vvould bo moved to Holdler Summit |