The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-23
utah RAILROADS.
Those Here and Those
Coming.
GREAT PROBABILITIES
Salt Lake City to be a Rail
road Centre.
GREAT PROBABILITIES
CONTINENTAL MIDWAY HOUSE.
Projects to Build from the East
Hither and Hence to the
Pacific Coast

To discuss railroad probabilities will
regard to Salt Lake, is TO go into whole
sale guess business. But there are
probabilities, and these probabilities
are not without foundation.
In these matters, as in all others
there is that which disposes indiffer-
emily to the will of man to whatever
he msy propose.
There is much power in q united
hope. 1t is hard work to convince &
man that he ought to do something
which you have no faith in yourself
BUTT is singular how easy it is to con-
vert men to ideas they desire to SEE
obtain.
There is a united opinion that Sail
Lake City is to become a great railroad
centre. This opinion is shared not only
by the people of this Territory, but il
is participated In by men in the rail
road business throughout the country
who seem to have given any study what.
ever to railroad possibilities in this sec
ton. The best evidence of this fact is
found in the fact that men following
railroading as q business, have made
investments in real estate hereabout.
One thing is absolutely certain, that
Salt Lake City Is in the heart of the
inter-mountaln region. 1t is the half
way house between the Missouri River
and the Pacific Coast; and as such, is
bound to become important as a rail-
rood centre.
Toe Northern Pacific and the South
erd Pacific WILL carry the business to the
vicinity of the border lines of British
Columpia and Old Mexico. At the
present time the Union Pacific and the
d. d Il. 6. Railways, with the Central
Pacific, control the business between
the lines mentioned north and south.
There is absolutely no doubt that sew
eral OF the eastern roads which are now
forcing their way west, must come to
this Territory. A number of them have
made their way into Omaha From
there west they are at the mercy of
the Union Pacific; and this condition
of things they cannot suffer to remain
long.
The Burlington & Missouri, in Ne
braska, have q line practically from
Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas CITY and
Omaha, to Denver and Cheyenne. Their
surveys go from Cheyenne to Green
River, in Utah. But neither they will
build on through to Salt Lake is uncer-
tain. If they do not, they will make
traffic arrangement with the d. & K. G .
Western to run through trains over its
road to this city.
The Gtah Midland Railway have got
surveys from Glenwood Springs, the
present terminus of the Colorado Mid
land, via Uintah Reservation through
Strawberry Valley. What way they
will come here is yet uncertain.
There is the Chicago & Northwestern
They have line from Chicago to Fort
Fetterman, Wyoming, and have sur
veys from that point running north of
the Union Pacific through Ogden via
Cache Valley to Salt Lake City, Utah.
The Chicago 81 Rock Island will be
in Denver in the spring. They have
started surveys west in this direction,
through "Huarfarro Pass" and will
come to this city. All roads are head
ing this way.
The Utah Central Railway is survey
ing line through to the Pacific Coast
from some point on it's southern extern
sion. There is no question of this road |
going through, but there is a question
as to the time work will be commenced. |
direct through route from Council |
Bluffs to California and give to tue Utah !
built line an importance that its age
and its capacity Justify. It will, more
over. be source of great qualification |
TO see this line extended into one of |
such proportions when it reaches the |
shores of the Pacific. 1t will be |
loudly advantageous to Salt Lake |
City and of the very greatest |
Importance to Utah at large. |
By it all passengers going east or west |
BY this route will be compelled to pass |
through Salt Lake City and it will prove |
4 halfway house for the western halt |
Of the continent to all transcontinental |
p assengers, save such as go via the
Southern or Northern Pacific road. |
Moreover it will afford an opening for |
the expectation of coal from the limit |
less fields of Utah now lying idle be. |
cause of lack of facility for transpo7-
tation. California needs our coal and |
We want her to have it. When the price |
by coal in Southern Cali |
iornia is remembered, the great leeway
afforded tor profit after the payment
Of freight, must prove an invinci-
Die argument. Again, the road will
traverse extensive mineral belts, open
ID a new agricultural country and be
If national as well as of local advantage.
This also applies with equal force to
he Salt Lake d Los Angeles road, the
criminal points of which will be Salt
lake and Los Angeles, and which will
connect with one of the several roads
low heading from eastern points to
,aIt Lake. The roads will parallel
ach other. but at distances so wide
part and traversing through such
distinct mineral regions that it is
'elieyed they can not materially in
ringe upon each other. The local
raffic which each will naturally build
10 will prove sufficient to make the in
most profitable. Both roads
7ill make directly tributary to Salt
AXE vast region of territory hitherto
and unproductive, yet
noWn to be rich in natural resources,
nd capable of Transformation into q
ighly prolific field, teeming with