The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31

ment Will open a rich agricultural and /
rich Grand Encouragement mining district.
the ph2 e HP sad F s aes f aa wX Ssa
line from WalcOtt to Saratoga and En-
eeSmDmsnt to , 1anas the ea ara .
ta aSSsa 10 MI Hne fo tbs Pa Td VIZ pc S
where there are rio6 fields of coal which
have, long been coveted by the Union
Pacific.
The Laramie, Hahn's Peak G. Paeino,
which has been graded to Centennial, 4
viii be comDisted to brand Encamp-
ported that the s' Union GI Pacific has taken
/ over the enterprise and Will give 10 fi-
nanoial backing.
Extension Of Burlington.
Among the projected roads is tho
promised extension Of the Burlington
from Guernsey across the state 70 Salt
Lake City. General Manager Holdrege
OF the Burlington announced from Omaha
recently that this extension viii be built
Just as soon as the work can be done.
The Burlington and Union Pacific are
| now engaged in a construction war in
/ western Nebraska. The former Is build
| ing UP the Platte valley from Broken
Bow to connect with its Alliance-Guern-
| sey line at Bridgeport, and the Union
! Pacific is building a line from North
/ Platte, Neb., up the Platte river and on
the opposite side OF the stream from the
Burlington. 1t has not been announced
| just where this line is going, but II is
| believed II will be completed as far as
Guernsey and Sunrise, In the iron fields
OF Northern Laramie county as soon as
possible so the overland can get some OF
the iron traffic. and the rush of bust
ness that is bound to come with the
completion Of the Goshen Hole, Fort
Laramie, Interstate and other canals
under the Pathfinder project and the
resultant settlement Of several hundred
thousand acres Of land. II is reported
that from Guernsey the Union Paciflo
will push on IN a northwestern direction
TO a connection with the Northwestern
Casper-Lander line.
The Union Pacific also proposes to ex-
tend its Walcott-aog Park line on in
northWesterly direction toward the Wind
River Indian reservation. the Popo Agie
oil fields and the Yellowstone park, ana
TO a connection with the Northwestern
Casper-Lander line. which will undoubu-
ediy be extended on west into ldaho ana
In addition 70 The building OF the above
mentioned new lines, the Union Pacific
proposes to build over seventy-f1Ye miles
of second or double track in wyoming
during the coming year. The Work has
been authorized, and some OF the con-
tracts have been let. There VIII De two
miles between Hermosa Junetop ana
Dale Creek, and the balance OF the dou-
BILE track will be put in Lookout 70
Hanna, and Point OF Rocks TO ROCK
Springs. Eventually the Union PaolTlo
Will double track its entire line In Wy
oming. - -,
The Burlington has also planned TO do
considerable work in the state In bssddl-
ton to the building OF the branch 1fon
sion from Guernsey TO salt Lake CltE
One Of their protects Is the Duilding OF
line from point between cheyenne ana
Sterling, on the Cheyenne-Ho!a5Tees -
northwesterly in the extreme SOUTHERN
portion of Wyoming. running soutn %
Grand Encampment, with prdhcH x
that place, and continuing on 10 SaII
Lake This line with the building OF tno
Guernsey-Salt LaiSs extension, will give
the Burlington two direct routes IRON "a
the east and southeast 70 saIt Hd 1s,o,, e
is also proposed TO build from Lyons
Colo, northward through Wyoming.
crossing the Guernsey-Salt Lake ext t.a-
sion and connecting with the rran 1lls,
viii give the Burlington a short cut from
Denver and the southwest 10 the nofltl
vest Via its Billings line and the North
ern Pacific connection.
Oregon Short Lines Campaign.
The Oregon Short Line Is TO be repre-
scented In the railroad construction CAM
naign. and will build a line from Idaho
into the Jaclnsons Hole country or west
ern Wyoming. Surveyors are now in the
field and the route has not been eecaueo
upon. $500
The Colorado g. Southern has planned
great things for Wyoming, and proposes
to build from wellington, Colo, 70 CheY-
enne TO connect with the cheyenne -
Northern, and from Grin junction the me
will be- extended through Douglas and on
Ito buffalo and Sheridan, in wyoming. ahd
possIbly through Montana to the Br1tisn
| possessions thus giving the Colorado
Southern a direct hns IRON s a1, me hri'iS0
| possessions TO the Gull or AexlcC.
! The Chicago Milwaukee, q ST: Paul.
J which heretofore has not invaded Wyon-
ing, proposes TO do 50 at once and Inc
has been surveyed from. DeadWooo. .. D1
through northern Wyoming, touching the
northern edge Of the Yellowstone Psrf-
and passing on to the FaCiKIc norLhWS st.
, With the building OF this road WyoxninS
will have four lines of transcontinentaA
!. railway. viz the Union Pacific. the chi
~ cago q Northwestern, the Burlington ana
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul
These through lines. With the north ana
south connections Of the Burlington
Northwestern and Colorado & Southerp.
will give Wyoming a network OF roaos
and will open up to deFelopmeIst aiHAOSs
: The Denver. Yellowstone & Pacific, lass
! 10 be mentioned here. hut far from being
the least important, is 20 be built IRON
0 Denver to Seattle. From Oenver ne ns Lhe
err and Union Pacific to Fort Collins.
: From Fort Collins it will run northwest
3 erly through North Park TO Grand H9-
campment, where IL will connect VITO
the Saratoga & EncaInpment, and from
= WaIcott il will be extended in a north
4 westerly direction shirting the southwest
4 corner of the Yellowstone park and pass
4 ing on northwesterly TO Seattle. Much
! has been written and said about this
t road. One report has it that the. Bur
4 Hngton Is behind the project, while ans
a other story ia 10 the effect that inde-
pendent capital is behind the connana1-