The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-25
AS TO RAILROADS.
The Developments Of
a Year.
A ROAD TO THE PARK.
Bishop Sharp and Mr.. Bennett
Speak.
ENCOURAGING CONCLUSIONS g..
Contemplated Changes-The Utah
Central and Union Pacfic Elk.
tensiOns-The D & Il G.
ENCOURAGING CONCLUSIONS
Contemplated Changes-The Utah
Central and Union Pacfic Eek.
tensiOns-The d. & Il G.

E0aQ advancement. In general way
Sh9re is not a great deal that may be
said of an improved outlook for future
work: but it is saying a very great deal
N this age of astonishing disappoint-
ments, that there are no indications for
the worse. Whatever changes may
have occurred are decidedly for the
Better. This is saying very little for a
newspaper; it should therefore be re-
reliable.
In the article by Mr.. J. II. Bennett
certainly one of the most wide-awak,
and enterprising of railroad men in this
sity, brief mention is made of the Sioux
Gity Railroad. 1t has been asserted
Smphatically, of recent date, in this
Bity, and has come through fairly credit
able channels, that tn work OF grading
from this city for the Salt Lake & Sioux
City Railroad would begin as soon after
the first OF the year as the weather
would permit. Preliminary SURVEYS III
This vicinity have been made, and an
office will be opened here, the sign for
which is now being painted in one of
SuI pdluG SuOpSs w Z uO uOG 6GUomDG q
solution Of this conundrum.
Mr.. Benefits article also rather di-
Eectly intimates at a connection, or
absorption, or amalgamation, of the D.
4 r. g. W. with some other line which.
early in the year, will put it on broad
guage footing. That the beginning OF
the year, or shortly thereafter, will be
noted for a combination OF railroad
inter sts that will put the D. & r. G.
Western on footing OF standard guage
Importance may be Wagered with
safety. Possibly ninety DAYS will
not elapse before broad guaae oars over
mis- line, will be run into salt Lake CITY.
1t is secret, and fact, that heavy
purchases of realty have been censum
mated that will be followed by the ap-
Pearance ere long of an entirely new
sallroad scheme, connecting Salt Lake
City not only with the east, but with
Ahe WNSt also. 1t is declared that Ie1e
Is more than one sandy bathing beach
On the shore of Great Salt Lake; that a
3earer ole to the city is known, and
that railroad organization has already
bounced upon it.
The Utah Central corps of engineers
we're hurried IN the work of surveying
. Toute to California connecting Salt
Lake and that State By an extension
Of the Utah Central from Milford. Il
g an open secret that the report of
This corps was made much sooner than
contemplated in response to a most
Urgent demand from Omaha, and that
this indicates that the plan is neither
aead nor forgotten, goes without tier
alton.
1t is hard to tell what the designs of
shs Union Pacific are. 1t m an;festly
does not lack the motif" to get beyond
Utah, and to California by the south
Best. The idiotic action of Congress IN
Zying to ruin the road by clogging it
With legislation of a character Le dis
nay, have been very disturbing ele-
Rents. and it is doubtful if the people
Of this road themselves, hampered and
sOa1etted with by the fear of inimical
sRaetments and the hope of a relief
bill have kept them at sea and para
8sZed whatever of will there NAV have
been, to prosecute the work of extern
siOns. The letter given here will tell
very fairly, of the state of mind of the
Onion Pacific on the question of its re-
lationship to extensions that have any
AFFECT on Utah 1t is in response to a
bitter inquiring as to the attitude of
the Union Pacific regarding Utah.
70 the Editors of THE HERALD
GentIemsn:-I regret to say in re-
spouse TO your letter of the 23d instant,
that we cannot give you any assurance
that the extensions and improvements
which our company would like to push,
viii soon go forward We cannot,
Rntil the fate of the sixty years extern
sion bill is decided by Congress, know
Rurselves where the money is coming
fzom to carry out plans which would
Inevitably prove very beneficial to
Utah. Congress has taken from the
Union Pacific the right to endorse
bonds for branches; but with this priyi-
lRge, such endorsement would not in
my opinion materially improve such
securities in face of our g1vernment
debt which natures in about eight
wears. Yours truly,
THOMAS l.. KIMBALL.
General Manager.
AS the matter stands, naturally the
improvements within the Territory it
seIf will soon be followed by an
augmentation of railroad facilities, and
II is not an improbable result, which
has often folio we'd similar conditions
That the Union Pacific will soon dis
cover way OF deciding what it wants
10 do with proposed extensions, when it
becomes likely that other railroads
WiH Wrest from the Union Pacific the
advantages of the extensIons-and they
are many-if that road does not take
hold of them.
The most tangible and hopeful evil
aences of railroad work in regard to
his city, however, is that achieved
Nv Hon. John W. Young in the con-
struction of his Salt Lake & Eastern
hallway, which is to connect by direct
rOute this city with the great mining
-iistrict of utah-Park City. The won