The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-18
TO see the insurgents and The Demo-
Gratis bury their tomahawks.
PROMPT AND ENERGETIC.

The Tribune wishes TO commend the
officials of the Salt Lake Route iol
their promptness and energy IN in
augurating the survey for their new
line on the ruined section down the
Meadow Valley wash, The full extent
of the disaster is hardly understood
until the surveyors are ordered in thc
field to make report on what should
he done. There is q general consensus
of opinion that the road is not likely
20 be built again down the Meadow
| Valley wash. The experience of build
ing down that gorge has been so dis
aStrous that it is not in the least likely
to be repeated. 1t was supposed, when
the track that was recently washed
out had been laid, that 1t would be
impossible for the water ever 10 tear
it up. because il was so thoroughly
riprapped aud braced that the engl.
neers considered 1t entirely secure But
the water came with such tremendous
power that the track was washed away
as though n mere SPIDERS web, and
the whole was made wreck and ruin.
In reconstrnctlpg the road, two prom
inent arguments will be put forward.
One will contend for the putting of the
line through the Dixie country in Utah,
thence down the Santa Clara river,
keeping clear of all the great washout
country, or minimizing its influence.
This project would have great advan-
tage for Utah But TO make it thor
oughly consistent route, the track
should he taken up considerable dis
tapce this side Of where the washout
occurred and detected to the lett down
by Harmony, Silver Reef and Washing |
ton, to St George, thence onward down |
the river valleys. II is said that Mr. |
favors this route, and it would |
certainly be an advantageous one for
Utah. 1t would lengthen the distance
TO some extent, but nothing at all
with the advantages to
be derived from the change.
Another route is that suggested by
he Phoebe Chamber of Commerce
through Bristol Pass, and thus on to
he right of the Meadow Valley wash.
This also would lengthen the track to
ome extent, and it would have no such
advantages to the min
raj camps of the region west of
'ioche, as the line down through the
Dixie country in Utah would afford,
We should be glad to see the line
effected leftward from point a little
elow Milford, so as to take in the
treat Cedar Valley, leaving the iron .
egion to the right, and keeping along
own in general way ON the east side {
f the mountains which the present {
rack skirts to the westward There I
'ould be a considerable drop reaching {
own the slope which is traversed by H.
ne old Black Ridge road, but once
own, the country is good, rich, and /
ould afford profitable tonnage for the t
Dad. c
On the other hand, the Bristol Pass
oute would bring the main line Off to- i
ards Phoebe and would obtain the rich {
lining freightage Of all that region o
here is a great undeveloped mining e
gion to the westward also which would a
3 served by that route. Ii
If the track is to be taken out of Y
lie Meadow Valley wash, as we as C.
inc will be the case, it will perhaps n
, close question for the determin. IL
@ railroad authorities to decide wheth- a
to build down by st. George or over n
2 Pieche. 1t will be an interesting 8,
lestion, too, for all of this region, h
ID the event will be awaited with the b
,eliest kind of interest. I'll