The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-19
To SHORTEN ROUTE
ACROSS COUNTRY
Another Deal in Which the Moi
fat Road Is Greatly
Interested.
WILL MATERIALLY CUT
DOWN THE DISTANCE
Will Give the Shortest Freight
Route Across the Con-
tlnent.

A dispatch published few days ago
TO the effect that the Moffat road, now
under construction from Denver west
ward to Salt Lake city, had already
entered into traffic arrangements with
the Salt Lake route for an outlet AT Los
Angeles in no way inyaiidates or ef-
rects the statement given publicity
some time ago that George j. Gould Is
the real power and factor behind the
Mofrat road. And events OF more re-
cent date tend only to confirm the lact
that the Could influence is now at work
and that il Will soon be felt In the Sec
tion indicated.
Clark AIiancc With Gould.
Senator w. A. Clark has just been
quoted as saying that he has the in
dividuai control of the Salt Lake route
and that l.. II. Hartman does not exert
his influence in that sphere so that an
alliance with Gould which would be TO
the mutual advantage OF that magnate
and the Clark road would be n per-
fcctly natural conclusion. The latest In
formation to hand is that the Moffat
road will. be continued to point near
Glenwood Springs, Dotsero has been
mentioned. and will there join the Den
Yer and Rio Grande This would short
en- the road, as has been heretofore
published, by about 200 miles. The Rio
Grande would then be followed up to
Green River. where line would divert
to the southwest to the Nloche and
MarysVale branch of the Denver and
Rio Grande, and then the gap would
he closed up between the latter point
and Milford or Thermo on the Salt
Lake route. and thence on TO the coast.
Fast Freight Route.
As Il fast freight route the one out
! lined would be unsurpassed. 1t would
ultimately become the line over which
most OF the fruit shipments would be
made and the time between southern
! California and Denver would be very
! materially reduced, In conjunction
with this proposed short line must also
/ be taken into consideration the fact
! that the Missouri Pacific, another
Gould road, has It's present terminus
! al Lenora, western Kansas, and Is
| really headed for Denver some 250
miles distant. With the Denver con-
nection completed there would be a dl-
rect route tc ST. Louis or Kansas City
| where the Wabash would be Joined and
! thence eastward to Chicago or if de-
sired the run could be continued to De-
] troit or Buffalo, thus almost across
/ the continent.
i Trade With the Orient.
Nor would this arrangement Interfere
! with the Western Pacific Passenger
| and freight business would be conveyed
! TO the coast via Salt Lake City and the
new road The alliance with the Salt
Lake route would give the Gould peo.
pie another Pacific coast outlet and II
! would give the Clark interests new
fast eastern route. something of meal
culable Importance in the development
of trade with the Orient, an object the
builders OF the Clark road had in view
| when the line was conceived. for haG
| there been no San Pedro harbor there
| would have been no Salt Lake rolsa.
Railroad developments In this section
OF the country Will be watched with
ever increasing interest, for the West
is now the real field of railroad opera.
| tiuus with the Pacific coast as an OBJ.
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