Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-17
TAILRoAD GOSSIP
rIk Renewed About Northwestern
Building to Salt Lake.
MONTPELIER ON THE LINE
A. ogden Railroad Mau Says that the
poad will be Constructed within
1--WE Years.


The fact that an action was begun
IN the district court at Ogden last
Friday by the Salt Lake aud Ogden
Railroad company to obtain right
of way at the Junction city across
the tracks of the Union and South
orr, Pacific and Short Line tracks,
brought little gossip about railroad
building IN which Montpelier is in
terested. In an interview with the
Ogden representative Of the Salt
Lake Tribune, prominent railroad
man stated that it is conceded in
railroad circles that the Salt Lake &
Ogden road is the route which the
Chicago 4 Northwestern road IL to
use to get into Salt Lake. For this
reason the above named roads have
opposed the granting of right of
way across their tracks at Ogden.
Continuing, the Tribune's CORE
spondent quotes the railroad man as
follows:
This is no dream, my boy. Here
are the blue prints. They show you
the route. The Northwestern rail
road is now built TO Lander, Wyo.
1t differs from other trancontinental
lines in that it traverses and will
traverse the best portion Of seven
states. From Lander the Wyoming,
Idaho and Pacific railroad starts.
This is the western and southern
extension Of the Northwestern to
the north and south Pacific Coast.
From Lander west the last-named
company has constructed a road
that Is the grade, and this is now
really for the ties.
RA water grade is followed, and
the Gfeen riyer is crossed about
seveety miles from Lander, and then
The Cottonwood is followed mp to
the source whence the continental
disiaeiscrossed, through a tunnel
sloo feet In lency%.A and at an eleva-
ton Of a3Ss Sa9s : y .SPrep down Grays
-rsYsssff .,~pfe it cmpties into the
sdath-fork of the Snake river to the
base 81 caribou mountain, famous
for itsp placer and quartz deposits OF
geld, and which is at the lower end
Of Star valley, Wyoming.
s.This is the junction point. One
branch continues west down the
Stake river into the Snake River
! valley and crosses the Oregon Short
Line railway between Market Lake
and Idaho Falls. Thence the lint
sedntinues almost directly west
! crQssing Lost river at or r~er =taA'
big ranch of Cb;AF Justice |. y
Hfsliia al Of ld&o. crosses Woo
! rlEer south Of Bellevue and run
through the ranch Of the late Sena
tog Arthur Brown. The base of the
swtooth range is then skirted, tap
ping The famous Wood river ant
SAwtooth lead and silver deposits
Ihe head of the Salmon /
! cVpssed south of the Thunder noun
tan mining district, and the lin
eNntinues west to the head of tn
r9nthfork OF The Boise river, theme
aeWn that stream to Boise, an,
thence down to the Snake riyer
9 Willeh is crossed at the mouth of tn
Dnlse river. Thence west up th
IAEAlAhear river, through Vale, th
Harvey valley and central Oregon
u Coos Bay, on the Pacific ocean
rhs Utah extension from tn
2werend of Star valley runs soutl
salt river To Fairview, Wyo.
Aenee southwest up Crow creek an
down Montpelier creek to Mont
p'lier, Ida where it crosses tn
Oregon Short Line railroad; theme
south through Bear Lake valley O.
the west side of Bear Lake t
MeadnWville, thence by way ! Q
) Straw wbErIy valley, the Danish Dug
g and Blacksmith fork to Hyrum
south end Of Cacae valley