Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-25
Surveys Now Being Run from
Weber and Echo Canyons
To Pennington.
TIME SAVING, EXPLANATION
Project Has Been Discussed FOR Years
And Is Now II Certainty. ow-
ing TO Need of IL.
lspecIal to the "News.'D

Ogden. Utah, Aug. Goa large en-
glneering force under the supervision
of William Ashton resident engineer
OF the Hartman system In utah, Is
at WORT OH the surveys for the Farm
ington~ Weber canyon cutoff. This new
line is to be built for the purpose or
cutting off "A miles of the route OF tho
Los Angeles limited and saving of time
between Chicago and Los Angeles
Work started yesterday afternoon.
Reports received in the city yester-
day at the superintendent's office OIL
the Union Pacific are to the effect that
the work of double tracking the line
will be continued as long as the wealth
err permits.
The long looked for extension of the
Union Pacific into salt Lake is now
about to be effected. The extension
viii be run, probably. from point
somewhere near Echo to Fafnilhgtou'
on the line of the oregon short Line.
Other lines have been considered in the
past and one of these may be accept
ed over the Weber canyon Pennington
survey \ line tn Coalville ON inc
u. P.'s Park City branch is being men
toned This would bring the Union Pa
cific into Salt Lake through Emigration
canyon explaining TO many wonuerets
the why's and whcrefores of the Emil
grafton canyon line being built by
Judge lie Grand Young. The Coal
vile survey is rather roundabout ana
the line through Emigration cgnvon'
one of many twists and turns, yet TO
builder like Hartman these uimcui-
ties are nothing when lnillons are
lad 10
OF time is the reason for the Union
Pacihc's desire to enter this city. Og-
den Is at the far end of triangle
between Salt Lake and the main llhe
of the Union Pacific through Wiener
and Echo canyons so straight line
from this city to Echo or to the main
line in Echo canyon via CoalVille would
cut "a hours from the present through
schedule, This saving. to the limit
eds, will be of incalculable value ana
would bring the coast closer by "a hours
to the cast, or vice versa.
Not only roundabout route be elm
mated but dangers of congrestion would
go The main line through Weber and
Echo canyon Is single track and from
dozen to two dozen freight and pas
senger trains bass over this single line
daily A wreck or a derailed car or
loose rail means tic-up in tranScon-
tinental system. Tie-ups are serious
nuisances to transcontinental systems,
millions of dollars being Il small con-
sideration when 1t Is possible TO elm
mate tie-ups by money spending The
announcement made by the superinten-
dents office in Ogden would Indicate
that the Echo line Is to be used with
Ogden as a gate way. Officials here
profess ignorance on this point, but 1t
Is iutimatcd that freight trains will
continue passing over the roundabout
route to keep the cutoff between Salt
Lake and Echo that much more open.
II IS believed the cutoff was goue over
by Hartman officials and their chief
when no passed through Utah on the
way To- the coast several weeks ago
with the Union Pacific reaching Salt
Lake a direct connection to the coast
with the Salt Lake Route In this city
viii be established. The Union Pacific
and Southern Pacific now connect at
Ogden and this point is another of the
several points which local officials in
the Hartman family refuse to discuss
on the plea Of ignorance.