The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-18
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-
tinent.

a dispatch published i 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 invalidates or ef-
fects 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 fact
that the Gould influence Is now at work
and that Il Will soon be felt in the sec
ton indicated.
Clark Alliance With Gould.
Senator w. A. Clark has just been
quoted as saying that he has the IN
dividual control of the Salt Lake route
and that e. H. Hartman does not exert
his influence I'm that sphere. so that an
alliance with Gould which would be to
the mutual advantage of that maSnate
and the Clark road would be a per-
fectly natural conclusion. The latest In
formation TO hand Is that the Moffat
road VIII be continued TO a 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 a line would divert
TO the southwest TO the Nioche and
Marysvale branch of the Denver and
Rio Grande, and then the gap would
be 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 a 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 ls present terminus
at Lenora. western Kansas, and Is
really headed for Denver, some $50
miles distant. With the Denver con-
nection completed there would be a d.
rect route TO St Louis or Kansas City,
where the Wabash would be Joined and
thence eastward TO Chicago. or II de-
sired, the run could be continued TO De-
troit or Buffalo, thus almost across
the continent.
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 IL
would give the Clark interests a new
fast eastern route, something OF incal-
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 had
there been no San Pedro harbor there
would have been no Salt Lake rotNs. ,
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
ions with the Pacific coast as an OBJ
jectiye.