The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-23

have at last awakened to the fact that
cheap excursion rates have a great in
Huenoe IN building up States and Ter
ritories tributary to them.
Moreover, the special rates which have
always been denied Utah. but which
new obtain, will be of great service to
the whole Territory. Before the Begin
ming OF the present year, THE HERALD
predicted that excursion rates would be
given to Utah, and We see that predic-
ton fulfilled. Before this Summer is
over, the vastly increased number of
visitors will show how much of benefit
will be derived from this source.
ANOTHER ROAD.
At recent meeting of the Denver
Chamber of Commerce a proposition
was set on foot for constructing an
air line railway from Denver to Salt
Lake, which will be extended on the
Denver side to the Missouri River, and
which will connect with some direct
route from Salt Lake City to California,
or be pushed on through, If no other
ROAD offers to take the work in hand.
A railway man who has recently
visited the coast, has the following to
say to representative of the Denver
Net0S, concerning the proposed line to
Salt Lake: Il was not at all surprised
on my return from the coast to hear il
rumored that the Chicago, Milwaukee
d st. Paul Company is behind the pro
posed LeavenWorth & Denver Short
Line. While at Oakland 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 is
eastward from the coast to Salt Lake
City, and as the expressed intention of
the people having in charge the
Leavenworth & Denver Short Line
is to construct line from the former
points to Denver, and then
westward through the mountains to
Salt Lake City, it is very plausible to
suspt ct the Milwaukee with being Vir-
tually interested in the new enterprise.
Ii has been an open secret among rail-
road men for several years that the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul is
anxious to reach the coast, and it is
only question of time until the great
company will build and operate a line
of its own from the Missouri River to
San Francisco. The company has an
Independent line to Kansas City, and
is anxious for western and southern
business. 1t would be an easy matter
to extend this line on to Leavenworth
and thence westward to Denver,
especially in view of the practi-
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. The
number of streams to be bridged
is small, while the level plains over
which the railroad would pass. admit
well settled, and the soil the most pro-
ductive in the world. This guarantees
a good local traffic in addition to the
through business. The statement is
made that the Denver people propose
to tunnel the mountains and push the
new line on to Salt LaRe. Now, when
these disiOinted facts are put together,
and mbiued 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 Chicsgo, Milwaukee &
st. Paul Railway Company, striking
for the Pacific Coast. The Burlington,
Santa Fe, Missouri Pacific and Union
Pacific have al found it essential to
build to Denver; the Rock Island is on
the way, and in my humble opinion,
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul is
making formidable preparations for a
westward march, and the proposed
short line from Leavenworth to Denver
is the line Of its march,"