The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-08
BURLINGTON MAY
/ ENTER SALT LAKE
Hill Lines Are Doing Much
Building in the Northwest
/ ern Territory.
THOUGHT THAT HILL HAS
THE SALT LAKE & OGDEN
Rumor Has It That He May Also
Be at Back of MOffat
Read.

4 While a great deal of publicity has
bcen given 10 the activities of the
hartman railroads in Utah, Idaho and
lteiahboring states, lttlo has been said
|,opcerning what the Hill roads are do
|ng. It is truc that the Oregon Short
Line is rapidly developing a network
M railroads in Idaho, Utah and north
llrn Nevada, but there is also a great
heal Of mysterious railroad building IN
he Gem state, which, in the opinion
II those familiar with the railroad stu
I,tion, is not the work Of the Harri-
nan interests, but that of the late Ed
rard H. Hartman S greatest compet-
Tor. James j. Hill. And the rumor is
veil founded that this mysterious build
np probably means thc' entrance of
he Hill interests into the metropolis of
he Intermountain empire, Salt Lake
The average reader of the daily press
Is familiar with the various roads and
tutoffs which are being constructed III
daho and ncighboriDg states by the
fegon Short Iuc and other Hartman
interests 4 road is being built by the
hegop Short Line from Rupert 10 Bliss
N thc fertile Twin Falls country. Ar
tthcr road is TO be built from Burley
ID Oakley. and u third from Morcland
b Aberdeen, northwest Of Pocatello. on
be Snake Valley line. And then the
Mort Line is making splendid progress
m the line under course of construc
n the main limo Of the Central or
,!outhorn Pacific, in Nevada. 1t is also
aid that a line is 10 be built from some
-oint on the Ogden Lucin cutoff IN this
tate TO Rupert. Ida.
Il Activity in Idaho.
Now, there is a great deal of rail
bad building going on in the Snake
liver country. and there is also con
iderable mystery connected with it,
Iowevcr, the greater part of IL is at.
ributed to the Burlington and other
ill interests. A glance at the map OF
he Hill roads In the iu}and territory
I'LL soon disclose the fact that there
Ire numerous short hues. which. if
hey were connected up, would form a
ne system. And it is the connecting
4 these lines which is now being done.
Ind this. in n large measure, is evi-
cnt from recent maps being issued by
be Hill lines. which show short
betches of railroad course Of con
7truction. The western terminus Of the
5ain line Of he Burlington is at Bill
ings, Mout., but branch lines run 10
9th Cody and Kirby, Wvo.
\ A road is being built along the Sal.
Ion river TO Arnstead Mont, u little
tation on the main line of The Oregon
7Iiort Line in southern Montana, which,
lis believed, Will eventually be eX-
pnded to connect with the branch Of
he Burlington which runs to Cody,
Nyo. The recent maps of the Bur
jngton show that a line is now being
Rnsiructed from Kirby. Wyo.. the ter
linus of The other branch Of the Bur
| rgton, to ShoshonI, on the line Of the
hicago q Northwestern. with which
Dad il is said that traffic agreements
ave been perfected. The terminus of
1e Mort ihwcstern is Lander. Wyo.. and
roin this point it would he an easy
Bitter 10 build directly southwest into
lgden. Utah
Y About Barnberger Road.
And in view Of tho persistent rumors
nat the Burlington controls the Salt
pkc & Ogden railroad. more familiarly
powu as the Bembcrgcr road, this
nIigbt be the plan of Hill 10 get into
|Ialt Lake City. The possibility of Hill
a1eing at the back Of the Bambcrger
ypad has always been feared. and per
BPS this would account for the fric-
bon between Simon Bamberger, prcsi-