The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-17
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
Heavy Traffic Road Building
Denver and Salt Lake.

THE Utah & Nevada excursion on
Sunday was well patronized, fully $50
awaiting themselves of the opportunity
presented.
MBssRs. w. W. RITTER, James Sharp,
Frank w. Jennings, Isaac Jennings,
L. S. Hills and DR.. Richards leave this
morning for 3 000-mile tour, going to
Portland, Oregon, thence to Victoria,
and coming home VIA San Francisco.
THE D. & r G. went out in two sec
tons yesterday morn ng-.here were
twenty siecpers on the trains.
An excursion party from Los An
geles to the east, numbering $50 per
sons, arrived IN Salt Lake Sunday
morning, and went out over the D. &
K. 6. yesterday.
COLONEL L. q. BLAKEsLEE, general
passenger agent OF rEe Burlington sys-
TEN, Was in town On Sunday.
A Prominent railway official, in an
interview discussing the prospects for
railroad bnilding in the west, recently
said: The Santa Fe will build no
important trunk lines, but will make
extensions to nearly all the trunk lines,
especially those in western Kansas.
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through to Colorado Springs, where it
will make direct connection with
the Colorado Midland for points
in Colorado and Utah. The Min
neapolis branch viii be extended into
the northwest about 100 miles O mark
out path for EMIGRATION in some of
the new co mites in the State. The
Union Pacific will construct ouly about
800 mlies, unless relief is afforded by
Congress. The Lincoln branch will, IN
all probability, be extended from Plain
VILE to Colby, a distance of 120 miles.
The Colby branch will be extended
west to junction with the main line
near Arapahoe, Colorado. This will
shorten the distance between Kansas
City and Denver about twenty miles,
over the main line. The Rock Island
will extend the Phillipsburg branch
from Almena in southwest direction
to Colby, and use the Union Pacifc's
new track to Denver. The Panhandle
line will be pushed to El Paso and the
Wichita line to the heart of Texas. The
smaller systems will also do consider
able construction, and it is conserva-
tive estimate to-day that there will
be about 10000 miles of track laid in
Kansas in 1885,"
IT is probable that within the next
year or two no line OF railroad will be
completed between the Missouri River
end Denver which is more direct or
quite as valuable in its connections as
the Kansas Pacific branch of the Union
Pacific, which had the choice of routes
when the line was located, not by COM
mittees from boards of trade. but by
skilled, experienced and well paid
engineers, whose knowledge of topog-
raphy, as applied to railroad routes, is
accepte1 as first class by the men who
ibvss5 in that form OF Improvement. 1t
may be taken for granted, therefore,
that if the Union Pacific were now free
to act in the matter of making i'm
Droyements, as contemplated in the
bill now pending in Congress, it would
at once resume the construction OF it's
direct main lire west from this city,
by way OF LoVeland Pass and the Valley
of the Blue. The distance to be
bri0ged is not great, nor the difficulties
to surmount more puZzling in their
nature than those encountered in ex-
tending the road from Georgetown to
Graymont. After reaching Dillon, in
the Valley Of the Blue, the item OF
construction and farther progress west
would take care of itself, which is also
true of the road when it reaches Utah,
where Salt Lake City would doubtless
be utilized to large extent IS 8 point
for the concentration and distribution
OF trade.-DenVer Meas.
J. B. ORMAN and William Crook, two
well-known railroad contractors, came
in from Pueblo last night.