The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-16
TOWARD SALT LAKE.
The Great Burlington System
Headed This Way.
GARFIELD BEACH AND LAKE PARK
Brilliant display of Fireworks at Garfield
Beach, Including the Eruption of Mount
Vesuvius Concert at Lake Park.

I The Denver NelUs Of the 18th has the fol
lowing special from Fort Collins, Colorado
s, BETS are freely made and quite positive
MINORS are afloat that the Burlington &
Missouri will be running cars into Fort
Collins by September. The rumors which
are atioat are not for the purpose of BOOM
ing real estate or anything of the kind, but
appear to be the outcome of information
coming from reliable sources.
The company has its broad gauge over
the Denver, Utah & Pacific complete as far
as Erie. 1t is probably inside of week
that the track will be laid between Erie
and Longmont over the new line to point
about six miles due east of LongmOnt
where it makes a sudden turn to Platte
vile on the Union Pacific, the point where
the trackage has been leased to Fort Col
Inns, and the link can be put in on short
notice, when through connection will be
secured from Denver to Fort Collins. 1t is
further reported that another link will be
put in Just east of Hudson on the Burling-
TOMS Denver extension, to Platteville, which
will give the Burlington & Missouri direct
intercourse from Fort Collins to the east.
PROBABLE sURMIsE.
1t is surmised that the reason why the
Burlington leases temporary trackage of
the Union Pacific to this point, is that the
Burlington & Missouri is to make Fort
Collins a base of operations for its extern
siOnS in northern Colorado and to Salt Lake.
IT is hardly reasonable that the Burlington
& Missouri should be in such haste to reach
this point in order simply to share with
the Union Pacific the amount of freight
JStnat would be supplied here, or is it reason
> able to suppose that the Union Paciicwould
lease trackage simply to permit the Bur
lington & Missouri to take away one-half or
three-fourths of the present traffic!
It is suspected that the real object of
leasing trackage is to permit the Burling-
ton q Missouri 10 run its construction and
supply trains TO this point and to allow it
to construct its connections southeast and
north at its leisure, and IN the meantime
to push its main line westward through
the Poudre canon, North Park, Steamboat
springs and t. Salt Lake. 1t is becoming
pretty well established that the Burlington
& Missouri has secured right of way of the
Union Pacific to and through this canon,
and has decided to construct its main
through line by that road. By the relin
Quishment by the Burlington d Missouri or
the abandonment of the Clear creek route,
it is evident that the company has given up
all inteltion of building by that route. By
adopting the POudre canou route they not
only secure a direct line westward over
easy grades through a country rich with
all kinds of financial resources, but scenic
the building of few branches all the i'm
mense traffic from the Denver extension,
Wyoming extension and even its northern
lor broken line can be gathered at this point
tSpd shipped westward over single noun
tain line.
GLANCE AT THE MAP.
BY glance at the map showing the Bur
ington system it will be seen that Fort
Collins, which stands at the gateway of
Poudre canon, stands in the very center, in
a belt of country covered by the Burling-
ton system in its westward course. 1t is
also on direct line from Chicago, Oberlin,
Hastings and Salt Lake City. Should this
he the intention of the Burlington com
pany, the future of Fort Collins is settled
II will be the headquarters of the noun
tain division, and the point where all
through traffic, both passenger and freight,
will accumulate to the coast, and where all
coast traffic for the east will be distributed
over the Burlington's eastern net work.
BY building into the territory indicated the
Burlington viii also pass the greatest
stone quarry country in the world. 1t will
also strike immense bodies of excellent
timber, ineXhaustible beds of coal, rich
mineral belt containing gold, silver, copper,
iron and other valuable minerals They
will also reach some of the finest health
and pleasure resorts to be found in Colo
RADIO, and the line will surpass all others as
a scenic line, attracting tourists from all
fOver the United States and from foreign
countries.