Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-01-27
Chief Engineer Hood Of Southern
Pacific Seeks Proposals.
FIRST STRETCH OF TRACK
From ogden to East shore of Lake.
Distance OF IA uiles-Ali to be
IN ~ FEB, IO'

Iudgng from lettor received IN this
city this morning from CHIEF Engineer
William Hood Of the Southern Pacific
the Ogden-Lucin cut.on VIII be built
across The lake despite the assurances
that have been received by The News
from responsible parties who proiessed
to be informed otherwise.
The letter referred 10 Is a type writ
ten request that has been mailed to an
railroad contractors In this and adioin.
Ing states asking FOR Bids ON the proc
POSED stretch Of track from ogden 10
the lake, distance Of iii6 miles and
stating that all bids must be by the
end OF the next two weeks.
The request Is as follows;
Proposals win be received by the
Southern Pacific company until Febru-
airy 10 for grading ana masonry ON
construction Of tho ogden & Lucin rail-
way from a point on the Central Pacific
railway near aud westerly from ogden
station Utah. TO a point near the east
erly shore OF Great Salt lake near Liz
tie Mountain, a distance Of fourteen
forty-slx hupdiedths miles,
The Southern Pacific company here
by reserves the right TO reject any or all
OF said proposals. and reserves the right
TO accept any proposal thai may Ia Il
Reem most desirable without reference
to the prices named IN any other pro-
posal or proposals that may be- sub
initted to any person or persons.
Plans and specifications can be OBJ
tained from the Office Of the CHIEF en-
gineer, southern Pacific company,
Montgomery street San Francisco, Cal-
ifornia"
CONTRACTORS PUZZLED.
Local contractors are now aslllng
themselves what the reservation
clause means and one OF them stated
this morning that lac did not believe
that he would bid on the work as II
looked TO him as though the request
for bids was somewhat Of a blum and
- there were TO be any awarding Of
the contract Tint some contractor with
a pun would secure the work
II do not know what to think OF II"
he said for II was only few months
ago that my partner Went over tie
survey which VAS recently made round
the south end Of the lake into salt Lake
and we We're an OF the uplnlon that
the Southern Pacific was coming that
way and SIN believe IT,
There Is alrendy some talk among
the Salt Lake merchants and business
men TO the effect that they get to-
gether and petition y. N Hartman
20 keep 90 his original plan OF building
into Salt Lake. while others say that n
the Hartman syndicate thinks Il IS
necessary TO come 10 this city that the
line VIII be built and II Il Is not con-
struoted, why Il viii be all the better
for the Rio tirande Western and the
Gould interests,
HUGE UNDERTAKING.
The building OF the Ogden Lucln cut
on VIII be a huge undertaking. and win
cost IN the neighborhood OF $500 000.
II the route already set forth Ia taken
there viii be over fourteen miles To
negotiate whore the water averages 50
feet IN depth This win mean the
building OF solid masonry piers to sup
port the Orders Of the bridge at stated
intervals Owing to the nature Of the
water, it win he Impossible to use steel
unless Il Is embedded IN concrete,
From the east to the west shore OF
the lake the distance Is about thirty !
two miles, and all Of this save two
miles across the rocky promOntory
Point and several miles Of flls on the |
west shore OF the lake win be trestle- |
work over the lake There Is said to |
be only one place on the west shore |
where the railroad can approach the |
water IN the Vicinity Of the proposed |
line, and that X the narrow strp |
where the great American dessert comes /
down 60 the waters edge. the place |
supposed 10 have been the outlet into |
the former Lake Bonneville of the /
quaternary period, II is supposed that |
the desert was the bed OF this lake.
SOME FIGURES.
one OF the most important advant-
tages to be gained by the new cut-ofr
aside from the shortening OF the dis |
tonoo, Il the reduction OF the grades,
On the old line a train leaves Ogden
at an elevation OF 1901 feet above the
SOC level A drop Of about 100 feet Is
made In the run Of tWenty-six miles TO
Corlnne Then comes The famous climb |
TO Promont0ry, whore the last spike
was driven which joined The Union Pa
ciac and the Central Pacific. West
from this point comes a thirty.nno-
mile descent to keton which has an
elevation Of 4223 feet Then begins the
sharp 500 foot climb In ten miles of the |
Kelton bill Luciu has the same olo-
walton practically as the point of Krl-
ton hill hut the f0ity-tlCht miles in /