The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-20
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
More Concerning the Salt
Lake & Sioux City.
SPECIAL TO SYRACUSE.
The Quiet Coal Tariff Fight-Personal
and General Points of
Interest.


Wyoming division OF the Union
Pacific. in company with a num-
Der of others, took special to Syracuse
yesterday, on a visit of inspection. Just
what the object of the inspection was
could not be learned. Some have it
that he is merely looking over the Utah
& Nevada, the Salt Lake & Western and
the Utah Central with the idea of fami-
liarizlng himself with these lines before
assuming the position of superintendent
OF the Utah division. which, rumor has
1t, will be made up of the three roads
mentioned. Be that as it may, it may
be of interest for the wild and woolly
humorist of the Tribune to learn that
Mr.. Cumming is not his most ardent ac-
mirer, and denounces the alleged inter-
view published in the sheet of yesterday
as the veriest rot. 1t will be well for the
Circassian to half sole the seat of his
trousers, and thus prevent violent in
jury to his brain, on coming in contact
with the gentleman named.
THE SALT LAKE & SIOUX CITY.
By all odds the greatest railroad en-
terprise now pending before the
country, says an Iowa journal. is that
which has taken definite form during
1888, for the construction of a new
transcontinental line westward from
Sioux City-the Sioux City and Salt
Lake. or the so-called Pacific Short
Line" 1t is a line upon which con-
struction has been in progress during
the past year from the west, and upon
which construction from Sioux City
and at various points along the whole
route will begin as early as work can
begin in the spring, the whole to be
completed within two years. Immense
es the effect of this new transcon
tinental line must be upon Sioux City,
its significance is of far greater import
ance in general way. 1t is an enter
prise which is truly of material i'm
portance because of the peculiar con-
ditions of the problem of transeon-
tinental carriage. This Sioux City and
Salt Lake line opens a new era in trans
continental freightage. The located
route of the line west from Sioux CITY
across northern Nebraska, u the Sweet
water valley, and by way of South Pass
through Wyoming to Salt Lake, not
only shortens the distance from the
latter point to Chicago by more than
100 miles. but il also has grades and
curvatures intellectually more favorable
than those of any other line. 1t is a
line, too, which under the existing
prices OF material and all the condi-
tions of construction can be built for
one-fitth of the enormous burden
of fixed charges and obligations under
which the old subsidized Pacific roads
are now staggering. This new line can
make splendid profits on rates which
would be absolute destruction to the
old lines. 1t could do so now, and how
much greater will be its advantage
when connection is made, as it will worry
shortly be, at Sioux City with the upper
lake lines now building hither! In this
aspect the Sioux City and Salt Lake
line is an enterprise of vast importance
as bearing on the general transporta-
ton problem. In its local significance,
which mainly centers in Sioux City, it
is to be considered here. Ia this
respect its importance cannot be
over estimated. 1t crosses in north
ern Nebraska the most fertile
agricultural region of the north
west, already largely settled, a great
corn and cattle and hog country, bear
ing an immense traffic to the live stock
market at Sioux City. Passing on
through western Nebraska, it follows
the Sweetwater Valley, country
which, with its environs, is the most
ranch region on the CONT
nent, extending 100 miles east and west,
south to the Union Pacific and north to
the British possessions. This valley is
the natural shipping point for the cattle
of all that immense cattle region. 1t is
q region, too, which with irrigation will
prove O splendid agricultural section.
THE COAL TARIFF FIGHT.
Nothing new has been developed in
regard to the quiet little fight now al
legged to be going on between the Utah
Central and the Denver g. Rio Grande
Western, in reference to the freight
rates on coal mined by the Utah Gen.
trail people, and which is hauled from
Schofield to Provo by the narrow guage.
Both Offices are discreetlY silent on the
subject, but the Utah Central people
say they are plentifully supplied with
coal.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
W. W. RITTER went to Pocatello
yesterday.
ENGINEER SMITH, who had charge of
the surveys recently made by the Utah
Central people, and who has been in
Omaha some weeks writing out his
notes. has arrived home,
The surveyors engaged in laying out
a route for the new railroad track to be
built from North Salt Lake to the Laks
and thence to the island, arrived on the
banks of the lake last Dight, and laid
out the grounds for the new resort at
the Jeremy Salt Works.
THE Chicago & Northwestern has or
dered all members on its line of the
Order of Railway Telegraphers. to
either withdraw rom the order or quit