Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1891-05-23

The Salt Lake. lfailry and Puget
sound Railway rs the Master
Key Of the situation

Key Of the situation
The blunder Of building the Central
Pacific over the high promonsory north
of the lake and double-hesding the
freight and passenger trains OF all the
traffic instead Of pass
ing around the lake 10 the south with
comparatively level grades. Is 10 be
corrected.
This struke OF connecting Lucin ON
the Central Pacific 10 Salt Lake City
via Of a route south Of the lake will in
evitaLly lead the Central and Uninn
Pacific lines 10 make this city their
terminals.
The bailding of q road from Salt
Lake City 10 Puget Sound means
road from that point win shortly be
extended 10 the Gulf of Mexico. and
though IL is not given out, IL Is be-
iieved TO be the purpose oil the com
pany now organized 10 extend the
road south as we'll MS north. With this
road built and the principal machine
shops and ends OF divisions in this city,
il would without doubt give employ
ment TO two thousand hands This,
together with the large impetus given
to the growth, rs being the point from
which supplies win be distributed dur
ing the construction OF the line, and
additional growth accruing from max
ing Salt Lake great smelling point
would in two years increase the popu-
Iation 10 10000. With the stock yards
and packing house industry greatly
stimulated by the better shipping ar
engagements that competing lines will
offer, a few more thousand people will
be added TO the population OF this city.
Already there are serious negotiations
for tile building Of line to Los Ange-
les, and only few days since party
of st. Louis officials and bankers Wis
tied this city for the purpose Of secur.
ing accurate data with view TO push-
ing the Los Angeles road at the earli-
est time possible. The moment any
outlet 10 the coast is offered, other than
the Central Pacific, either via Puget
Sound, Los Angeles, San Diego or San
Francisco, il can be put down that
come Of the roads now terminating in
Denver win build indie pendent lines to
this city. Any serious complications
between these rival lines may ut any
time precipitate building one or tw,
new lines from Colorado to this city
Should a road To Los Angeles result
from the construction OF the Puget
Sound line and any one OF the hal
dozen lines that have already been sur
yeyed from Colorado start building il
would make this city the ohjectiv,
point Of half dozen lines OF from fiv,
hundred to eight hundred miles il
| length. This would make il the centeI
the greatest railroad building aeilgit,
ever known, and stimulate other enter
prises, until Salt Lake could easily nc
qnire &C, 900 additional population in |
single year.
The fact is that the whole country i
now, and has been for the last tw,
years, eagerly watching every move
ment OF the railroads and mines will
view to profiting by such rapid nd
vances of values rs were known il
kau.as City and Omaha. The las
year has given Salt Lake the call OF
Denver, as far as mining camps is con
cerned, and with the rich discoverie
made in the Deep Greek country AM
the valuable commerce that will b.
poured into the lap of this city will
the completion OF the HALEY aud juno
ton Bar road, Salt Lake would be in
better condition for rapid growth thai
an. city has ever enjoyed. II is yer.
probable that within the next five year
all these contemplated lines will hav
been built, and that many OF them wi
have located their principal construe
tim and repair shops in this city.
II is clear that Salt Lake City vii
be the hub Of six great roads-on
reaching from Duluth To Los Angelo,
another from Puget Sound TO Calves
ton, the one already built from 0mahi
to San Francisco, and two roads fr0r
Colorado reaching to the Pacific b.
independent roads, or trafiic Arrange
ments with other lines.
The objective point of all the cas-
ern trunk lines has been transferre
from Denver 10 Salt Lake, and wit
the building of line around the sont
end Of the great lake the difficulty of
western outlet will be solved.-Sa
Lake Herald.
Major Wilkes. protector and ei
gineer of the Salt Lake, HALEY nm
Puget Sound railroad. states that b
expects to begin work on the road i
June /. The line, lie says, will &c
; tainly be built. The arrangements Al
all made and nothing reiaains but IL
completion of details. In talking
the matter the Major said that u
company had some of the most su
rtsniial men in the country back OF
gentlemen prominently identified vii
: eastern timber interests. They n
preciate the value Of the timber 7
sources of northern Idaho and are d
tarmined 10 open up those forests
. Salt Lake Times.
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