The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-25
RAILROAD GROWTH
SURE, BUT STEADY
Many Short Line Connections
and Feeders Needed Rather
Than More Long Ones.
j. F. NALLERY OF THE
BURLINGTON in ZION
Says That the Next Five Years
Will BE the Most Prosper
Gus Ever known.

j. F. Vallery. general agent for the
Burlington at Denver, arrived III Salt
Lake in his private car Saturday night.
lIo viii he in this city Till Tuesday.
Mrs. Fallcry accompanies Mr. NalIcry
10 visit her old home, for Mrs. Nallcry-
is a native of this city and Mr.. Fallery
al one timo was located here,
''ls the Burlington going TO build
20 Salt Lake If so when? And over
what route! Is Hill going to the Pa
cfic! Does Hill want the Denver and
Rio Grsudc and with il the Western
Pacific? is the Midland going 10 build
from Grand Junction to Salt Lake -
were among the questions shot at Mr..
Nallery by The Tribune railroad re
Porter. To which Mr.. Nallcry smiliHgly
replied
Now I am going TO tell you n
secret: Mr.. Hill does not consult me in
regard 10 his pIaDs.' whcrcupon Mr.
NalJerv produced d cigar, and added
- You probably know as much about all
hat as / do Ask nc something l
know
But how about Hill and The Denver
aod Rio Grandc - was The next qucs-
lion
Nothing il il that know of,
answered MIR. Vallerv You notice
that President Harris of the Burlington,
according to the newspapers [ have
read, has said that thorc is no truth
IN the recent TGmors shat the Hill in
tcrcsts wanted The Denver aud Rio
GraDdc. They know more about it than
] do and | fake their word for il
Personally / don think thcrc is
ANYTHING in he idea The Dcnycr and
Rio Hraude Is a good road. | wouldn I
mind owning it myself, but 1T has
rather steep grades; aud Jill sort of
dlSllkes climbing up and down noun
ialus with freight trains when he can
Gct 9n easier roDte.
Hill Is Busy Building.
- Hill has the Colorado Southern, thc
Burlington. ;hc Northern Pacific, the
Great Northern the Colorado Southern.
The Colorado Midland. There arc old
surveys from the end of the Burlington
IN Wyoming into salt Lake that / sup
pose he could use If he wanted TO. So
whv buy the Denver and Rio Grandc?
Illll is connecting ms lines north
and south from the Gulf to his lines
in Montana, via Denver. Fort Collins,
and Billings, 81 this gives the Burling-
ion, the Colorado Southern and the Mid
land outlet To the Pacific coast over
thc Great Northern and the Northern
Pacific. Grades make railroads these
and Mr.. Nallcry laughed geni3lly
"But Mr. Nalery. YOU are NOT Civ
ing any definite new information, per-
sisted the qucstioncr.
Don't know any. Most of mine
comes from tho newspapers and If /
were 10 give YOU any of that 1T would
only be chnsing the news around in a
,.i- I r.1l bny
from now on for the next five years
We al are going 10 see tbc most pros
porous times ever known in tins conn
Try,
All this European war talk is only
talk. / don & believe in it at all Japan
Is too poor TO do anything dangerous,
and England and Germany each have
TOO much 10 lose by fighting. Money
usually settles such questions. and there
viii bc no war anywhere for long
time 10 come. but a wonderful increase
in business.
Betterments Needed.
"This Will cause all railroads 60
build more or less, especially feeders
and double tracks and greater termi-
mails; but don Z look for fireworks in
such lines, IT is very easy to build
railroads ou paper but it Is a serious
thing TO do 50 in actual practice, We
all must know better what we have be
fore we take on more of a load
- Salt Lake is growing like a weed,
and is n fayorltc city OF niue. As time
goes on il will get more and more
railroad advantages. but whether they
are built by Hill, the Hartman inter.
csts. or by John Doe, matters little
When the business is there a railroad
Will come after it. and both business
and railroad building viii bc a gradual
and healthy growth, rather than the
long spectacular chances that used To
he taken in such matters. Tho frontier
is gone forever, the West is become
settled to large extent. The great nat
ural rontcs for rails are largely taken
even now. and what building there is in
ihc future viii hn moro ON The order
al what il was aud Is IN the middle
West. that Is. rs | have said, adding 10
" hat NC already have rather than push
ing forward long thin risky lines into
ihc Wilderness mt great risk, rs there
j. now no more wilderncsscs TO pcne
iratc; that is. III the sense of what once
existed
Feeders. connections. terminals.
Strengthening out curves. reducing
grades, putting OIL more service and
faster trains, this iS the way il looks
so me. But when Won want to know
mst what Mr. Hin or Mr. IIawlcy or
Mr.. Lovctt or Mr. Gould or any of the
others are going TO do, why YOU had
better ask them. They know better
Than I do.
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