Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-03-13
CUTOFF SKEPTIC
AIRS HIS VIEWS.
Does Not Believe That Lake Line
viii Ever be Built
HE GIVES SOME REASONS
Enormous Expense OF Construction
And Almost Imposslbility Of
Its operation.

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| Iaclllca Vul-ol hcloSS '"V H"lN" o"U
Of Great Salt Lake win be a reality un-
| III see IL built" said an experienced
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man mas had much experience III Iel'-
reading hercabouts, and in the west
gepor,uy and narticulntIv has had
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| effects as applied TO railroad eonstruc-
ton and operation In connection with
the lake and IT'S peculiar waters ana
general characteristics His opinion Is
given for whatever worth the reader
may attach to H.
In view of your skepticism with re-
gard TO the lake cut.ot, how do you
account for the letting OF grade con-
tracts and present activity IN opera
lions looking to the Immediate prose-
cution Of the work. was asked,
Well II Is not altogether impossible
to make explanation Of the work 80
far done and being DONE was the re-
ply.
I'm the first place. continued this
| disbelieVer IN the signs as they now
| appear, THE amount Of work 50 far let
brings the grade to the lake shore, a
| distance OF some niue or ten miles west
Of ogden, Now, that makes the line
strike an old survey which runs south
along the eastern shore OF the lake,
down TO this city and my opinion Is
that eventually the road viii come that
way.
"As TO my reasons for thinking 30,
let me explain. The plan to run across
the lake Includes a distance OF 20 miles
Of line that must be exposed TO the
wind and waves Of the lakeland these
In that part OF this body OF water
are not TO be held In light estimate.
While 1t is the intention to grade all
but II miles Of this, there is 10 be this
latter length of trestle work or piling.
As IL wei known, the first material
found at the bottom OF the lake Is
layer of sand Of varying thlCknesses OF
from six inches to two feet, then comes
hard stratum Of soda formation Of
from a foot TO rs inches thick and af-
Ter that alternate strata Of sand and
blue clay for an indefinite depth, II Is
impossible 10 drive piles through this
soda bed without having first Steamed
out the holes In which the timber Is to
De driven Take IL miles Of this sort
OF trestle work and II my experience
with the lake teaches me anything It is
that the Southern Pacific VIII find IT
almost impossible to run its heavy
trains upon H. Out at Saltair there is
q snort stretch OF such construction
over when the bathlng trains are run
IRON the shofe 10 the pavilion Every
year mat niue DIT OF plllng ANA treatle
WORK must De gone over ana repaired
ana strengthened IN order to make II
saIe Tor even the light engines and cars
OF me SAT- Lake " Los Angeles These
trains run out lo the pavilion during
the summer Nasoh az a speed OF per-
maps less tpah ~ mics an hour, NO
rack the Woodwork as TO make these
annuhi rsihiorcements absolutely nee
essary' row y II gong 70 De win
Suetcn ~ uesue WORK almost az long
as we entire me from mere
10 oaltulI' WIN giant engines ana
munster lIelgnt ana heaVy Fullmap
ters run over ~ constantly! II speed
shall DC Waue the dahgef must be so
great az 10 maze even wealthy rail-
tonu corporation pause Then the 10
Ihlles 70 pe graaed must De enormously
expensive lor lhe reason that plenty OF
rock ana flpTapplhg must be used In
ofder 20 guarantee II against the ac-
lon OF me water
don { thlnk there are many men on
ihe southern racine VINO nave tried 10
run tram over rails wet with the salt
water OF the lakei ana when a high
Wlnd comes up AZ the north end OF the
lake the water Is bound to get onto the
track, or all previous experience In this
direction amounts TO nothing. OF
course, the water COMES up only when
the wind blows, ana then the latter Is
so strong az 10 blow away the sand
box, ] have seen an engine and two