Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-01-10
Hartman Lays Plans to Offset the
MOffat Short Line,
1000 LAB0RERS WANTED
General Manager RIdgeway OF color
ado-U tab Construction company
Issues Call for Men'

Apparently Hartman and Gould are
beginning to sense the situation that
Moffat and the powers behind him have
passed the blufing stage and that they
propose to push on from Denver to
Salt Lake just as fast as is consistent
with good railroad construction.
Taken all in all there Is a very lively
interest at this time taken in certain
section of western Colorado. In the
vicinity OF Steamboat Springs 1t Is re-
ported that there are nearly 800 men
employed getting out ties; in the same
vicinity there is a party of surveyors
AT work for the Union Pacific, while In
New York on Monday there viii be
meeting Of representatives Of the com
pany building the tunnel through
Gray's peak and the syndicate OF EAB-
fish and American capital deslrous OF
taking over the property and compiet'
ing the work All this goes to SHOW
that Moffat win not be allowed to have
things entirely his own way.
This activity on the part OF the Un-
ion Pacific demonstrates that the Har-
riman system viii take q hand in the
cutting down of time between De1ver
and ogden itself. 1t Is generally be-
lieyed that now the old Brick Pom
eroy tunnel is reported In the market
that the Hartman Ilawley combine in
Colorado will purchase It and utilize II
on the scheme for new short cut. In
confirmation of the rumor that the
Union Pacific Is waking up and Is iig-
uring on building a Denver cutoff
party Of ten surveyors In charge Of j,
b. Narrow left Omaha this week for
Granger. Wyo., from which point they
have started, despite the wintry wea-
Their, to work south towards Colorado.
1t is believed by the route proposed
that the Union Pacific can cut down
the distance by about 200 miles between
Salt Lake and Denver. At any rate
apparently 1t Is going 70 be demon
strated.
There are other survey parties scat
tered around on the Colorado border
which those who profess to know say
they are positive are not Molfat sur
yeyors
with the Moffat road coming into
Salt Lake and the Union Pacific cut
ting down the distance between
salt Lake and Denver by 200
miles the Rio Grande will have to In
self-defenso also do some const uctiOn
In the way Of shortening up the main
line,
1000 LABORERS WANTED.
That the building Of the Moffat road
has passed the construction on paper
stage is demonstrated by the following
dispatch from Denver this morning
which says.
General Manager A. c. Rldgeway Of
the Colorado-Utah Construction COM
pany which has charge Of the c0nst uc-
ton Of the new Denver. Northwest m
and Pacific Railroad company emphati-
cally denies the truth OF the complaint
made to chief Of police Armstrong OF
this city that men shipped into Denver
from ogden, Utah by a labor agency
TO work on the new railroad had IA /
ed to secure employment when they
reached Denver. he said that every
man who had been sent to Denver by
that or any other employment agency
and really desired TO work. had been
employed by the contractors which
have charge of the construct n of the
first Sc miles Of the new railroad. Gov.
James Il Orman Of the firm of Orman
x Cook, which has the contract for
building 1917 miles OF the road, made a
similar statement concerning the EN-
ployment Of men, and said that within
the next 10 days steady worok would be
guaranteed all men who cared TO come
to Denver until the working force on
the divisions he Is building had reach
ed 1000 men, Gov, Orman also said
that the ogden agency had had orders
from his firm TO ship men 10 Denver.
An additional order for a shipment of
20 men daily has been given that COM
pany to be in effect until the camps of
that firm are fully established when a
carte blanch order to ship in all men
available will be given.