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Show MOFFAT SURVEY SAVES 144 MILES. Actual Distance from Denver To State liue Three Hundred forty-five Miles; less from State Line to Salt lake Craig, Colo., July 29. According to the survey of the Moffat road, the actual distance from Denver to the state line to Salt Lake City there will be an additional saving. The distance from Steamboat to Hayden 25 miles, and from Hayden to Craig it is 15 miles. Craig is only 254 miles from Denver by rail, or 14 miles farther than Buena Vista on the Denver & Rio Grande. It is only two miles farther from Denver than Alamosa, via Veta pass, and 66 miles nearer than by way of Salida and Poncha pass. From Craig to the western boundary of the state the distance by the Denver & Salt Lake survey is a little less than 90 miles, making that point about 340 miles from Denver. The station of Utahline, on the border, on the Rio Grande, 484 miles from Denver showing that the road actually saves in traversing the state, 144 miles. |