The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-12
Recent Railway Improvements.

more than 5000 men. with monthly wage
disbursement of nearly $500 900.
Recent Railway Improvements.
The bennington cutoff. via Tooele
county, Will have a total length when
completed of III miles. Monday next
sees the first train run out on the new
track TO the terminus nsar Stockton. and
with it VIII pass the last of the narrow
gauge tracks operated by the big roads
in Utah.
The Lucin cutoff crosses Great Salt
lake ana involves piece of tracklaying
l49 miles long, the distance from Ogden
70 Lucin- This work, one of the engi-
neering marvelS of the day. the plan Of
Engineer Hood of the Southern Pacific,
when completed viii have thirty-two
miles of track laid across the waters of
the great inland sea. II is now all COM
pleted except twenty miles. and this will
require a year to finish. What the cost
OF the Lucin cutoff viii be cannot be
stated with exactnesS. but reliable state
ments say that the Southern Pacific will
expend between SIS, 900 600 and $4,000. 0G0
Improving its lines from Ogden to San
Francisco, and great part of this will
doubtless be called for by the Lucin op-
eratiOns.
The Salina extension of the Rio Grande
Western. made TO connect the branch
line with the main line near Green River
has been graded for twenty miles. All
up and down the Rio Grande system the
work of improvement has been going on
actively for the past twelve months To-
tai trackage improvements costing 800
W are now under way, and at the be-
ginning or the year an Order for s.. e09, 900
additional rolling stock was placed. which
viii be utilized on the Rio Grande Vest
ern.
ANY man only needs to read the signs
in The air 20 know that we stand on the
| threshold of great things in railroad de-
velopment. The signs of the widespread
industrial a Weakening are evident on every
hand. and it is only saying what every
one knows to be true TO assert that the
railroads of the west are not in hands
that allow opportunities to slip through
them. The opportunities are here, and
daily multiplying; therefore, I say that
the business man of Utah let him be as
conservative as he may. can with per
feet assurance make his calculation on
seeing in the near future at least two
ne@ railroads spanning our plains and
cutting through our mountains-one run
ming TO the east, the other 10 the west.
Who viii build them. whether they are
to be Independent lines or connections Of
routes ALREADY established, matters less
to Utah business men than to see the
dirt actually flying. and to hear the iron
horse actually snorting-
Los Angeles stretches out her hands
to US, and Denver yearns TO be hooked
to US by yet another band of STEEL we
recfprocate their longings and saw with
all our might, mind and strength s'GOd
speed the day when their hearts desires
and ours shall be gratifie6r-
Closing the programme, Judge o. W.
Powers responded TO the sentiment
''The LADIES' He paid a beautiful 1rib-
ute TO the fair sex. TO whom. he de-
clared, no man can do Justice. He
spoke of the influence of wives and OF
mothers, and to the stamp set by a
mother upon a child. remaining there
through life and showing until his
death what manner Of mother he pos
sessed.
The hands of the clock had passed the
hour of midnight when this eulogy was
concluded and the great eaTke~ine-
quickly melted away