The Elbert County tribune., 1907-09-26
ENTIRE STATE WILL BE GREATLY
BENEFITED BY CON-
sTRUcTIoN.
DENVER TO SEATTLE
BRINGS NEW TERRITORY IN
TOUCH WITH MARKETS OF
DENVER.

tenn which eventually will directly con-
meet Denver and Seattle. cutting vast
region as yet almost entirely undevel-
oped and not traversed by railroads, Is
said to be an assured fact.
The new road is the Denver, Lara
mic G. Northwestern. Its headquarters
is in Denver. The actual work of con-
struction will begin within sixty days.
All possible speed will be employed in
building the road to Laramie, Wyo.
ming. The major portion of the right
Of way has been secured. A Denver
terminal has been arranged for, and
the company owns in fee simple a.
right of way over the continental d.
vide through Fish Creek canon, where
the grade is less than two per cent
and where no difficult engineering feats
are presented. The company has 15Sb
purchased 100 acres of land within the
city limits of Denver, where will be
located its terminals, shops and yards.
The closing of the deal for this land.
lying just east OF the old Argo smelter,
and known as the Highly addition, IL
the first intimation that Denver peo-
pie have had of the new project. The
men engaged in the work have been
proceeding quietly and systematically.
They have interested eastern capital in
the road and also Denver men. In the
last two or three days $4,000 worth of
stock in the new road has been sub
scribed in Denver alone.
The men behind the new project
were not anxious that news of their
"a
this time. Several weeks ago Col. w.
q. Skinner of the Denver Union Stock
Yards Company was approached by
men who are financing and promoting
the new road, and the scheme for the
entrance of the Denver, Laramie &
Northwestern was broached to him.
Colonel Skinner investigated the mat
ter carefully. He was impressed with
the advantages that would accrue to
Denver through the building of such q
road, found the proposition all thai.
was claimed for 1t, and set about indlJ
ing a tract of land that would be suit
able for terminal.
The deed by which the new road be-
comes the owner of the Highly tract
has been closed 1t is bounded on the
east by West Forty-eighth avenue, on
the south by the Colorado & Southern :
and Moffat roads, and on the north by
The extension of Broadway. The land
lies ono-half mile nearer the city than
Utah Junction, where the shops of the
Moffnt road are located. The consider
alton was 100000.
ais Worth Millions"
"The building of the new Denver
Larimie & Northwestern will be big
stride ahead for Denver and for Colo
rado," said Colonel Skinner. This
road and the Moffat road, which is rap
Idly nearing completion, will make
! Denver a live stock center second to
none. Just think of the great expanse
Of territory that these roads will open
up. There are millions of acres in
Routt county which the Moffat road
will tap; there are millions of acres in
northern Colorado and southern Wyo-
ming which the new Laramie road will
tap. These acres are the finest grazing
| lands in the country. The stock Is
coming to Denver over the rails Of the
new companies. 1t will eventually bring
millions of dollars annually into the
state.
And not alone In the livestock in
dustry, but in mining development that
will follow the completion of the Moi
fat road and the Laramie project, will
Denver and Colorado benefit. l am
firmly of the belief that new era in
Colorado's progress has been reached
and that these roads will supply some
of the few-very few-things lacking
to make Colorado the greatest state In
the whole Union"
The survey of the new line agreed
upon runs in almost straight line
from Denver to Fort Collins midway
between the present lines of the Union
Pacific and Colorado &c Southern.
South Of Lander.
From Fort Collins the line will run
northwest, crossing the continental d.
vide through Fish Creek canon where
the grade is easy and the cross
ing one which presents no diffi-
cult engineering feats. The canon is
twelve miles long. After leaving tho
canon the road as planned will tap the
territory as yet untraversed by rail-
roads as far north as Laramie. The
surveys from this point on to Laramie
have been made but the exact route
has not been definitely determined
upon. The final surveys may throw
the line south of Lander with a spur
into the city.
Yellowstone Park will be brougha
within a nights ride of Denver by the
new road. Being a north and south
road, the Laramie line when completed
will intercept all of the transcontinen-
tai lines north of Denver. the Union
Pacific, Northwestern, st. Paul and
Hill lines. This Will give Denver an
outlet and inlet to the great Northwest
and connections with great railway
systems such as 1t could not get in any
other way.
Col. X. II. Dwyer, formerly connected
with the Illinois Central and Gould
lines. and known from coast to coast
ma an ahla railroad man ia the penaral