Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-23

caused Gould to project his Western
Pacific.
And so the year shows one road
completed from Salt Lake to the
coast, another started and well un.
der way and over 100 miles finished
on the line from Denver
There is plenty of talk of the
Northwestern building west, but it is
unlikely while it's contract with the
Hartman lines at Omaha holds good.
The Burlington, however, is another
story, and it is surely coming to Salt
Lake, simply because it has, to, being
Hill property, and therefore at odds
with it's competing lines. That the
state of Idaho will be invaded is
equally certain.
Salt Lake is the center of the
smelling industry and of mining in
the intermountain region. 1t is the
only large city between Denver and
the Pacific. Here centers the sugar
industry of Idaho and Utah and it
is the most attractive place for tour
lists in every way. With all it's COM
mercial, social and Industrial advan-
tages, there is little to marvel at that
it has gradually become the railroad
center, and this will be strongly en-
phasized as the years roll along
While the state saw but little addi-
. ton to it's mileage during the year,
yet the present year will see over
200 miles built, which will make the
total mileage of Utah over 1000. The
additions of the year were the Malad
branch of the Oregon Short Line, and
the Garfield branch CT the Rio
Grande.
In Idaho the Oregon Short Line
completed it's Minidoka &, Southwest
ern and is now rushing work on it's
line to the Yellowstone National park.
Three lines are projected from
stations along the Salt Lake Route,
from Caliente to Phoebe, from Las
Vegas to Goldfield, and from Nippeno
to Searchlight. Each will be added to
Nevada's mileage this year. Still an
other is to be built from Toano on
the Southern Pacific to Ely and Cher
ry Creek.
At least dozen har-brained prof.
ects are in the air, but they are not
worth mentioning, as actual. construc-
ton is what counts in these days of
immense capital and rapid moves.
= Never in their history have the ex-
listing, roads of Utah shown such
gross earnings, and the figures, it is
confidently expected, will give a
more astonishing result at the close
of next year. Approximately the
railroads for Utah for the last fiscal
year, earned $22;000,000. This does
not include Union or Southern Pa
cific, as it is impossible to say what
proportion Of their great earnings
should be accredited to Utah. The
figures include the whole of the Ore
gon. Short Line, however, which has
increased its gross earnings from the
: $6,00O,000 mark in 1896 to more than
!, $13,000,0O0 in 1905.
Salt Lake is to have two new
stations, the Gould terminal on the
s'old site, Fourth West and Third
South, and the Harriman-Clark ter
4 minal at South Temple and Third
: West.
Vast sums of money have been ex-
!. pended during the year by the three
larger systems of the state in i'm
2 proving the lines, and the same is
4 true, to a lesser degree, of the Saltair,
: Lagoon, Mercur and Sanpete Ines, all
!, of which have had prosperous year.
I, The coming season will see the
greatest activity on the Western Pa
cific and Moffat roads. and in Idaho
and Nevada much local construction