Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-10-16
REASON OF FEVERISH HASTE.
ror,ics Road From Denver to Seattle
Via Yellowstone and Boise
Ready to Build.
MAY Be COLORADO & SOUTHERN.
Interesting Developments Are Now
Du, 10 the State Of Idaho, the
Next Battlefield

Active construction on tho new
,rsrco of the oregon Short Line to
Yellowstone park has commenced an
grading outfits are scattered all along
me line from 81. Anthony to the vlciu'-
~ Of lIarysvile. q distance of 80 miles,
gentleman who has returned from
,hat eociIon stated this morning that
all hands have got down to work in
feyerIsh haste and IT. is reported that
the new Baxter, straw q Storrs Con-
sruction company hos agreed to g"t
tbc grade finished on the first 40 miles
before the winter sets in in earnest If
This should be correct there win have
10 be some tan hustling done, especially
As the grade win be from 90 Il feet
hirh I'm Hoprs fiat. adjoining the ST.
Anthony toWnsite
The reason for this unSoemly haste
when otherwise the contractors coula
iog along comfortably and have the line
completed 10y June / I'm time for the
opening OF the Yellowstone park seoson
rs believed to be on account of the Colo
RADIO wyoming 4 Idaho, which Is
threatening to build from DenNcs
through 10 Seattle via the edge Of iol-
lowstone park and Boise.
ISIT COLORADO & SOUTHERN?
It rs confidently predicted, and also
yehcmoltly denied by Interested par
hips that this new project is ColOra-
do g. southern extension, All signs
point that way, The public, from past
experience, notably the Western Pacln'
Salt Lake Route, etc, Is inclined to
believe Thar when an signs point 90 a.
certain road being behind new pro-
feet and when the officials of that ROAD
cnphIucllly plead not guilty, that the
case for the prosecution can safely rest
Time viii only tell whether or not the
Colorado & Southern Is backing the pro-
sect I'm the meantime II will be re.
called that the c. a. $. some time ago
increased It's stock $lO0O0O,000 and to
date nothing has been done to warrant
such am increase.
CHANGES ITS NAME
Be that as It may, the Colorado, wy
omins d Idaho has designs on Union
Pacific and oregon short Line terri.
tory Furthermore last week at a meet
ing In Cheyenne the company changed
St. name to the Denver, Yellowstone &
Pacific railroad. II also changed some
OF lbs original dummy officers. ora
Haley. stockgroNer of Laramie, Wyo.
has resigned and Fennlmore Chatter
ton former governor of Wyoming, has
been elected president.
ROUTE OF NEW LINE.
The road is projected from Denver to
Seattle, WASH and the men behind the
project say it is an Independent line
md viii have tracks OF its own into
Denver The surveys have been COM
p,etcd from Denver to point 20 miles
southwest Of Grand Encampment Wyo.
From Denver the projected line runs
through HiIlsboro. then 10 Fort Collins,
running about midway between the
Union Pacific and Colorado q Southern
roads until Fort Collins Is reached,
Eheu 10 branches off and follows a wa
Be-. grade into ana through North park,
,ulolug al Walden and other towns
ihaI. From North park the road
passes through Grand Encampment,
alu'0ga, Crosses the Union Pacific ut
hAN'us thence runs IN Northwestern
g direction through the Atlantic city
iaI south Pass country In Wyoming,
l'l south of Yellowstone park and on
through Idaho 10 Seattle,
SOME CONNECTIONS.
II win make connections with the or
lEIn Short Line In Western Idaho or
'l.1 ine Northern Pacific at a point 100
lg'a west OF the Idaho line IN the state
Washington. Connections with
.dtsa Ines viii probably cause fight
2r."ae1 the Northern Pacific and the
.h Pacific, which controls the Ore
Ion short Line.
H| lHs route freight and passenger
BUSINESS between Seattle and the Gulf
.n.no can make the trip I'm 40
lO1.t less time than by any other
route, or over any route that
- '' selected, owing to the topog-
%. the country which win pre-
'' "e building Of a shorter line
READY TO BUILD,
Gorge NJ Hoh the general manage,
.r new company is quoted as say
US Nal the route has been surveyed
w. lhlracis for construction win be-
j" me near future, lust as soon as
lenders are all In.
.a s given as the reason for the
..'h ol me Oregon Short Line I'm
'4 lhe direction OF thoroughly
, 'hs tAe new territory opening mn
l0o VI ieeue'S LOT us main
'le meantime the residents OF Ida.
r. eNelaim, Let them come. The
u"." The merrler"