The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-15
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IN RAILWAY CIRCLES
The New Route to the Coast Gen
eral Notes.

A railway man who has recently
visited the coast, has the following to
say to representative of the Denver
News, concerning the proposed line to
Salt Lake: Il was not at all surprised
on my return from the coast to hear 1t
rumored that the Chicago. Milwaukee
& st. Paul Company is behind the pre-
posed LeavenWorth and Denver Short
Line. While atOakland learned that
the Milwaukee company had purchased
1850 acres of water front on the bay
and had also quietly secured right OF
way for a distance of $50 miles from
Oakland, through Stanton and Lathrop.
The direction OF the route selected
ia eastward from the coast TO
Salt Lake City, and as the ex-
pressed inten ton of the people having
in charge the LeavenWoTGn and Denver
Short Line is TO construct line from
the former points to Denver and then
westward through the mountains to
Salt Lake City, 1t is very plausible to
suspect the Milwaukee with being vlrt1-
aliy interested in the new enterprise. 1t
has been an open secret among railroad
men for several years that the Chicago,
Milwaukee & ST. Paul is anxious TO
ZACH the coast, and 1t is only question
# time until this great company will
build and operate line OF it's own from
the Missouri River to San francisco.
The company has an independent line
to Kansas City, and is anxious for west
ern and southern business. ltwould be
an easy matter TO extend this line on To
| Leavenworth and thence. westward to
Denver, especially IN view OF the prectl-
cal certainty of receiving aid from every
county along the route. Again, the
cost of constructing a road through
Kansas and Colorado. along the survey
made, would be comparatively light
as compared with other routes. Inc
numper of streams 10 be bridged
is small, while the level plains over
which the railroad would pass, admit
of the easiest grades. The country is
we'll settled, and the soil the most pro
dGctiYe in the world. This guarantees
/ g good local traffic i'll addition 70 the
through business. The statement is
! made that The Denver people propose
20 tunnel the mountains aid push the
new line on to Salt Lake. Now when
these disjointed facts are put together,
and combined with the Milwaukee's re-
cent purchase of water frontage at Oak
land, and the right of way eastward to
Salt Lake City. it rounds out colossal
but entirely feasible scheme, behind
which looms the Chicago, Milwaukee, d
St. Paul Railway Company, striking
for the Pacific coast. The Burlington,
Santa Fe. Missouri Pacific and Union
Pacific have all found it essential to
build to Denver; the Rock Island is on
the way, and in my humble opinion,
| the CHIC ago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Is
making formidable preparations for q
westward march, and the proposed
short line from Lsavenworth TO Denver
il the lie of its match"
HEBEG WEsTcoAT, of this city. will
succeed A. II. Nasn, depot passenger
agent ct Ogden, in q few days. Mr..
and Mrs. Nash will come to Salt Lake,
where they will reside permanently.
| TRAFFIC is very brisk, each train
coming into the city being well loaded
THE Utah & Nevada runs an excar-
sion train to Garfield Beach this after
noon, leaving here at 40.
MEssRs. Goss, BANCROFT and Bam-
beser went out to Lake PARK on a
special last evening, to look the pros
pect DER and decide on some plan OF
action for the coming campaign.
H. J. NEWTON, western passenger
agent of the Bee Line, with headquar-
ters at DeuYer, is in town.