The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-27

iaid northward for fifteen miles. Other
gangs Of graders are working both
ways from the intersection with the
California Eastern branch of the Santa
Re, between Marvel and Ivanpah. Cal.
going about twenty miles each wav.
At the salt Lake end. 540.4 miles Of
road were acquired by the purchase &C.
part of the oregon Short Line last
spring At that time Calientes was the
sOurheTumOst terminal. a contract TO
grade eighty-five miles was let to the
Utah Construction company. which has
completed fifty miles. The railroad
does its own track-lavirg and has
down sixteen miles Of rail beyond Cali
ientes- Although there are several
heavy rock cuts, it is expected the
grading contract will be finished by
june I. This win leave eighty-flve miles
10 be completed TO the Nevada-Califor-
mia line. From there TO Daggett is an
other 800 miles but 30 is believed al
viii be finished by the end Of the year.
and reSular trains running not later
than the succeeding spring.
The Denver Northwestern a. Pacific,
commonly called the "Moffat road is
building entirely from the other end
Al present the grading has been COM
pleted f0rty-fiVe miles. to Boulder
park. about I5C6 men ere working %
that vicinity. including those engaged
mel through the Continental divide Tte
arrival Of winter greatly binders or
era-ions, but work IS being pushed rs
fast as possible under existing conGi-
Uons.
The Western Pacific.
The Western Pacific has worked
quietly. but every step If has taken has
had an air or business. The paying af
a ST.. 600 fee 10 the secretary OF state
Cleh vas taken as prime Cacie evil
denec of good faith. The company has
spent millions OF dollars in acquiring
terminals and rights OF way I'M SsE
Francisco and other places III CaUf0r-
MA Ii has had corps OF surveyors
strung along the entire distance be-
tween San Francisco and Salt Lake
The route has not beer finally adopted
as yet, the engineers san being ar
work 20 determine The bls Iilc. Thc
fact, generally taken for granted. th1-
the road is To form the western linz in
the Gould cOast-tc-cuasc system. gives
confidence THAI il viii be puslcl % ON
early com gletiCn
The Ogden-LuCin CUTOFF Cf the
Southern Pacific across the Great Salt
lake. formally Inspected ny Prsa.deuz
T. III. Hartman. prominent railroad
officials and other invited CUES s.
+ Thanksgiving day, Is conceded 10 be
one Of the most remarkable railroad
engineering feats OF many a day. Tho
building OF railroad GcJoGs an inland
sea has been accomplished no5 With3at
difficulty. Expensive as has been The
work, it constitutes only o part of tins
general plan OF Improvement I'm thiA
region contemplated by the manage
ment oil the Southern Pacific. For this
work S2O.O00.O0O has already been SET
aside This viii nearly an float Though
the regular channels Of trade. Sll- Lake
and ogden getting large benefit.
This give only a brief resume oil the
railroad construction planned and -
process Of being carried out it repre-
sents an outlay of over 100000 600.
which I'm itself should have ara en0rw-
OusIy stimulating effeot on trade. to
say nothing of the lasting herefits of
better transportation I-CiliJiC1