The San Francisco call., 1908-08-30
Gossip of RaiIwaymen

There was quite an intellectual
gathering at the Yosemite when 1 was
there, remarked Fred Prince of the
Santa Fe, and among the visitors was
a Boston lady.
The conversation naturally drifted
10 literature and pure English
patronize both, you know-and a dis
cussion started on the correct pro-
nunciation OF the word profile.
1t promised to become acrimonious,
and as there was no dictionary in
camp we could come to no agreement
Finally we referred the delicate
question to our stage driver, a gentle
man with profound acquaintance with
mountains and trails and profiles of
mountains.
4" Let me see,' he drawled as he rolled
out the two different recommendations.
This is hard matter to say right off
the reel. Many clever chaps have
driven with me, and they said first
one thing and then the other But
what could you expect of them? They
were college professors and didn't
know nothing. Couldn't tell a bear
trail from an Indians naked foot
What they said wasSall nonsense.
Use common sense, I say. Look at
that there wood pile. Do you call 1t
wood peel or wood pile?'"
Il am shining example of the young
man who came west to grow up with
the country" said an old railroadman
In 1858, in company with a number
of raiiroadmen and one or two smart
spectators, started the town of
Corinne.
I'VE thought we were pretty clever
fellows and at big meeting we all
came forward with the announcement
that we would never live to see the day
OF another transcontienntal road
We also decided that IL the Union
Pacific ever built branch line it would
follow the Bear river, and so we de-
cided to locate a town, which we called
Corinne in honor of the little daughter
of one of the builders.
"Corinne grew as If by magic. In
an incredibly short space of, time we
had 4,500 people. Had Ogden faded
and Salt Lake going. We built
q steamer to go around the lake and
gather up ore, which was to be smelted
In the big plant we were about to build
Our wagon trains were the largest
in the west, and many a time have 1
seen them mile long starting for
Montana and the mines in the north
We had two splendid newspapers, brick
stores, hotels and churches, and we
also planned vast irrigation system.
Alas for our hopes of fortune. We
nave " lnetnh JuC OIlSlDd1 Du1iQ6TS
of the Central Pacific for the destruc-
tion of our expectations, and also of
Corinne.
The Central Pacific and the Union
Pacific were soon at loggerheads and
the former compelled the latter to lease
the line to it between Promontory and
Ogden for about 999 years. or it would
parallel the latter. When Sidney Dillon
commenced to build branches he did
exactly what we anticipated He
paralleled the line of the Central pa
cifc to Brigham City and left Corinne
out. That ended our career. We were
dead from that time
]. Kelly of the Collver's tours will
be here from China on September
to escort large party of Boston peo-
pie on a tour around the world They
will leave on the Mongolia on Septem-
ber Is.
A new route through Colorado is pro-
posed by the building of a cutoff to
connect the Denver and Rio Grande
with the Moffatt road. which runs over
the Rockies west and a little north of
Denver This connection will not only
give new scenic route from Salt Lake
city to Denver, but will shorten the
distance 200 miles and greatly lessen
time. This cutoff will extend from
Kremmling to Dotsero, and a charter
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