The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-10
WORK PROCEEDS
ON M0FFAT ROAD
Line Now Completed to Kremm.
ling, 1928 Miles From
Denver.
TRAVERSES SPLENDID
AGRICULTURAL REGION
Trains Will Be Running From
Zion to Denver in Two
Years Time.

Special to Tho Tribune
DENVER, June 9-The Moffat road has
now completed its limo to Kremml.ne. 1as
| miles from Denver md Is building
through Gore canyon, which Is the open
Ing OF the Gore range Men arc at work
In Routt county, which Is on tho yest
slope OF the Gore range and from which
point there slopes away n splendid aert-
cultural region. which offers no obsta-
cles TO railroad building moro formidable
than would be encountered on the plains
OF Iowa or Nebraska. Tho next serious
impediments to the construction will be
FOUND when the line is built as far as tho
Wasatch mountains, sixty-fve miles
southeast of Salt Lake City 1t Is conf
IDENTIFY predicted In Denver that tho Two
cities Will be In communication by ratl
over the new road in two years
Confidence in New Road.
So strong is the confidence In Denver
over the building OF the Moffat line TO
Salt Lake City, that not less than ono
dozen buildings. averaging eight and ten
sSories tSor IN IN height arc being constructed
hens OF the town credit this activity in
inc building lire TO a certainty OF estab-
lishing Western connection for Denver
The Next Objective Point.
:, The town of Steamboat Springs, In
Routt county, Will be the next Objective
point OF the road, and preparations are
oelng made to celebrate the arrival OF
trains there next October. The line will
probably run through Provo and the
strawberry valley east of that city, but
between Provo and Steamboat Springs
three routes have been surveyed, and
none OF them have been definitely de-
cided upon the eNigencies of the right OF
way arrangements being permitted TO
control In the selection OF a route
The Mofrat road has not made arrange
Ver but has constructed depot OF Its
own, two blocks away from that station
1t runs on Its own tracks from the heart
OF the city to It's present terminus and
operates independently OF any or the
roads now entering the city. Considera-
bic hostility was expressed toward the
road by the controlling forces OF the
Union depot. and for that reason. 1t set
up depot OF its own, In the expectation
that in time IT would form an alliance
with somo of the other roads and erect
depot larger than tho present Union
station, which would be the terminal
point of the roads which ore now renting
accommodations from the Union Depot
company In Denver
Attracting Settlers to Region.
The immigration department OF the road
has been busy attracting settlers TO the
region between Denver and Salt Lake,
The vast deposits of coal found In the
vicinity OF steamboat springs and tho
hydro-carbon fields along the Green
river In Uncompehgre valley, in Utah,
will supply more fuel than will all the
coal deposits or the State of Pennsylva-
MIA. When It becomes plain to the set
tiers that the great mountain rampant
west of Denver has prevented a road
from being built on an ''air line" between
the Colorado capital and Salt Lake until
d. II. Moffat solved the problem OF
climbing the range, they understand why
II is that the vast area Of agricultural
land has so long been untenantcd. 1t Is
hardly probable that construction Will
begin from the Utah end of the line for
another year, but as soon as the road is
past Sulphur Springs, the work of finish
ing up the gap between the terminus In
Colorado and Salt Lake Will be rushed
Laborers are being shipped now from
Minneapolis, st Paul. Chicago and st.
Louis TO work on the line and the high
est wages ever paid for similar labor Is
being offered.
Denver Loyal to Road.
People OF the city OF Denver are loyal
in support Of the road. and tho tourists
who travel over Its line TO the top of the
Continental Divide during the summer
time where the snow banks arc, go
away, telling OF It's wonders and the tre-
mcndous influence 1t VIII have upon tho
transcontinental travel when Salt Lake
City and Denver are linked together by
bands of steel. which Will cut down the
time by rail- across the continent ten
hours.