, 1888-05-15
The CHEYENNE ROUTE.
A New Line Between Chicago and
the Coast.
Immense Amounts of Freight to be
Transferred Here.
Cheyenne Cuts Off a Large Share
of Denver Traffic.

That Cheyenne lS the most IaVoraple
located town on the great transcontinental
highway cannot be denied. That the city
has not received the substantial recpgni-
ton which it deserved IN that account is
equally true. That much lasting benefit
is about to occur to the town on the score
indicated was learned yesterday. Another
step toward making Cheyenne a great
commercial centre has been taken by a
trio of powerful railway corporations.
For several weeks the officials of the
Burlington & Missouri, Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific railroads have been ne
gotiating a deal which recently resulted in
the creation of a new transcontinental
freight line, a great traffic highway over
which thousands of car loads OF freight
will pass annually.
This new line is the Cheyenne Route and
business over it will be managed by Bur-
lington & Missouri officials. The money
necessary to operate the extensive new
route will be discussed by that wealthy
corporation and headquarters will be es-
tablished in this city.
The Cheyenne Route is nothing more
nor less than a through freight line from
Chicago to the Pacific coast and return,
The roads to be traversed are the Chica-
go, Burlington & Quincy. the Cheyenne
& Burlington, the Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific. Freight billed from
Chicago to any point in California will be
transported direct to this city and carried
westward over the Union Pacific to Ogden,
where another change starts the merchan-
disc on a CONTIGUOUS journey to the golden
state.
Subioined is a list of the principal west
ern terminals: San Francisco, San Jose,
Sacramento, Stockton, Los Angeles, Oak
land, Marysville and Cotton. From these
points shippers patronizing the Cheyenne
Route will have goods sent over the lines
included in hat route and mentioned
above.
The new arrangement will greatly lessen
the traffic of the Denver & Rio Grande,
which now annually carries much mer-
chandlse from Ogden to Denver, where it
is transferred to the Burlington & Mis-
souri,. Use of the Cheyenne Route will
obviate the necessity of loading and un-
loading freight at Ogden in order to bring
into service the narrow guage route. The
Burlington & Missouri in Colorado and
Nebraska will be relieved by the change,
as it has for sometime been overburdened
with local business on account of the
rapid settlement of the country touched.
Under the new order of things the
Union Pacific between Ogden and this city
will be constantly dotted with trains il
the busy season. Train load after train
load of tea, silk and fruit which is now
conveyed eastward via the Denver & Rio
Grande will come from Ogden on the
Overland route and be placed on the
tracks of the far-reachIng 20" at this
point. The pioneer line will doubtless
employ many additional men and procure
any amount of extra motive power.
The Cheyenne & Burlington will now
be a road of considerable prominence,
forming no insignificant portion of the
Cheyenne Route. So SOON as business
warrants the Commencement of opera
tions the yards here will be enlarged, IA
c%ilities increased and extra help and mo-
tive power brought into requisition.
The first shipment over the new route
is two train loads of tea CONSIGNED IN cast
ern houses. The importation has left San
Francisco and trains bearing the cargo
will arrive in due time.
1t is useless to grow too enthusiastic on
the strength of this important movement,
but The leader cannot refrain from re-
marking that the maintenance of a large
number of locomotives at this point will
certainly demand the early construction of
extensive machine shops.