Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-05-04
RAILROADS ARE BUILDING.
Several Roads are Expected 10 Reach The Coast
Ere Long.
short Lines Pine howing-Condut.
tor. FORMALLY invited 60 Meet
Neat Year IN This tiv.

The building of the 900 mile line from
brush To Alliance. BY the burlington.
which viii connect Denver and Dead
wood. with the additional 10 miles 10
the Haftvilic mines. leads most people
10 the belief that the burlington II now
IN good earnest headed Tor ogden.
oGDES's PROSPECTS,
The Standard IL OF the opinion that
ogden has Brighter prospects a. the
coming terminus ~ railroads than Il
has had for years. and " one, only. Of
the numerous proposed railroads into
this city natsrialikea this year the
people will have great cause for ~.
joicinE. u win mean a grvat impetus
10 tho business interests. u Will mean
raise In the valuation 81 all prop
srty. II will mean nm Influx u new
capital and 81 new people, ready and
anxious 10 do all In their power 10
build up the city. The growth % the
weetsrn shipping Interests II one fo,in-
dalton for the rrIortr ~ the numerous
propositions for building railroads and
another good reason 10 the average
mind u the fact that tho oriental
trade. the Carrying ~ the vast amount
~ Oriental goods which will be ship.
ped 10 the United States. ana even 20
tho far East should by reason OF the
rhortner 81 the route come through
IN" MfNfa NNNfU IIfMNN NnNf " fVu"N
come through Ogden, ogden ntill
stands ar m. gateway Go the East and
West, the interm1untain center. and
It's eventual success as a city II as
nured.
BURLINGTON TO THE COAST.
Thos- IN railroad circles who ought 10
know say that the branch OF the Dur
lington aud Missouri which II being 20
vigorously pushed from Alliance M
the North Platte valley into Wyoming,
II not headed at all Tor the Elk noun.
tain coal fields, hut, ON the contrary,
Il driving Tor tho jackson Hole coal
fields. and thence west Via iiolso. lda-
no. To the Pacific coast. The road, u
h said. will be- built IN the Platte val-
ley 10 Fort Laramie. when. spur will
be- run into ilartvllle. but the main
line will continue from Fort Laramie
60 Casper. thence by Thermopolia 20
the jackson Hole coal nclda, Just
south of the National Park. II II said
that the surveying work now being
done by tho burlington and Missouri
In the HAilock canyon country II only
blind.
NORTHWESTERN PLANS.
When the Northwestern extended It's
Elkhorn line into Central Wyoming, q
dozen Year, ngo, tho Union Pacific pre-.
vented u from going ON To Ogden by
making "a ten year contract BY which
the Northwestern rot the bulk Of the
Union Pacific business at Omaha.
About the time this contract expired.
year or twu ago. Il was announced
that the Northwestern would continue
90 halt at Casper b~cauFe the Wander
bllt interests had acquired the ascen-
dnncy ia the Union Pacific feurraniEa-
ton. n now appears that this latter
view was mistake and that the iiar'
rimun interest u uppcrmoAt In the
Union paclnc and intends 10 turn over
to tho Illinois Central ~ soon d. the
10 mile link II completed, tho business
witch the Northwestern has contracts
cd for many years.
n this alliance ~ the Illinois cen-
trail and Union pacific IN accomplished
IL IL believed that the nfrt move ~
the Northwestern will be TO finiTh lta
wHtsr grade line along the North
Platte, up the Rwe~twater. and over
the South Pass TO ogden. Next, u n
thought II will build from Hastings
Into Denver
IL apiseurs that the new line ~ the
darlington up the North Platte u al
most parallel with the Union PaclhVH
Rnck creek and Sidney cui-on, and
that the two companies ARE already
struggling for possession Of several
passes nrrnss the Laramie mountains,
An the Indications are that within a
few days OF weeks the fur will begin
Ia ny In "a construction race across
wyoming. In which the Union parific,
burlington and Northwestern will be-
hotly engaged. -Aun- Leader,