The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30
Railroad Center of the West.
Depot and Fine Viaduct
Being Built by Oregon Short Line

A statement prepared by the Oregon
Shcrt Line Railroad company officials
shows that the cost of improvements
now under way in Salt Lake passes the
million-and-a-ha mark This line is
enjoying unbounded prosperity, and to
meet demands made for increased facil-
tiles the Hartman interests have de-
cided to expend this amount in enlarg-
ing Salt Lake terminals. Most import
ant of the improvements planned for
salt Lake is the erection of a half
million dollar depot, 10 be used Jointly
hy the Oregon Short Line and Salt Lake
route. This will be built at the base of
South Temple street and near the site
or the present depot 1t is to be the
finest structure of it's kind in the entire
west. Rough estimates place its cost in
the neighborhood of 5000, 600, but it will
probably pass this figure. In addition
to the expenditure contemplated in the
building of this depot, the Oregon Short
Line is spending 81, 339, 300 in improving
its Salt Lake yards and in erecting
number Of important structures.
A new roundhouse, shops, coaling
plant, coach yards and twenty miles of
new trackage in the north yards. in
Folv1ng the expenditure of $500 600:
building of the North Temple street via
duct, now nearing completion; the erec-
ton or the block-long fireproof freight
depot between First South and South
Temple streets; transfer platforms and
hide house; the installation of the City
creek conduit across the yards at North
Temple street; the installation Of inter-
locking signals In the switching yards;
the laying of fourteen miles of extra
trackage and the paving of the passen-
ger yards, means the expenditure of
$938.S00 more.
Short Lines New Mileage.
The Oregon Short Line has been
heightened by the construction of
branch lines during the past year. The
Mlnlooka x Southwestern railroad Is
being built from Twin Falls. Ida, to
BUM, nearly sixteen miles. The Yellow
stone park extension from st. Anthony,
Ida, to the park, seventy miles, is laid
over stretch Of forty miles. The
Wellsville branch, connecting the Logan
sugar works with Mendon, was compIet-
ed some time ago. The cutoff at Oe
den, four miles in length, is also COM
pleted- The two-mile smelter snI1r
running to the Hot Springs smelter is
Each and every branch
mentioned is important in that it af-
fords greatly needed shipping and trav-
cling facilities TO thriving communities.
The Hartman lines in choosing Salt
Lake as their western center nave done
more for Salt Lake than can be esti-
mated in dollars and cents. Big invest
Drs watch the railroads. A district that
IS the battle-ground for mighty railroads
has a great future assured Railroads
make districts. and In return
-hese districts maintain railroads. Salt
Lake has for years been the spot on the
nap of the western empire which big
railroad men circled with red pencil. !
saying, Here is the city which. on ac-
count Of its geographical location and
natural surroundings, must be our
western center-our western Gistribut- |
ng point. Here we can build our shops |
md our big terminals. Freight and pas |
;enger traffic from the four points of |
he compass must pass through this |
,ity, and from this city we can dis
ribute over the west. Hartman real |
yes this. Gould realizes ii. Other big |
men. like Hill of the Burlington, real |
re II, and quietly but without delay, |