The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-02-07
OGDEN MUST ACCEPT THE cHALr.sNoE.


The Salt Lake papers are making an endless csmpaio
the ogdnLucin cutoff Their object no doubt is not to
Inc Hartman people that the danger or cunot be mad
TO storms but IS for the purpose persuadng
Goud officials that though par is an almost usee
aolunct OF the Rio Grande there
Southern Pacific to allow the operate west from her
to Wells over the ogden-Lucin cutoff
Ihe Western Pacific today condition passer
ger traffic and the stretch of road from City
south end and point lake and over the big sal
marsh near the Nevada line be abandoned
uon from this deporabe condition Pacific the
lake Herald Republican publishes this story
Alarmed by the damaging storms on Great Salt
lake and the rise of the waters cffcss of Southern
Pacific contemplating radical changes the route
west from Ogden while the fate Of the
hangs in the balance.
persistenty runored in railroad circles that the
Southern Pacific will choose around the south
end of the lake. which trains to and from
coast would run through Salt Lake This will neces
state complete abandonment of the cutoff It will
be some time, however before this drastic is taken
and meantime the elements will have to prove con-
clusivey that they going to upon
the embanSments and the trese of the great shortcut
across the lake
Recent storms the lake have damaged the cutoff
to an alarming extent and the loss to the Southern
has been expense is constant for work
train and kept busy the cutoff all the time
making fills in the embanlnent where have made
nroads The waters continue to rise, more
frequent and and the result not only
considerable damage the cutoff but traffic de-
ayed as we'll
In addition to the current expense Of keeping
IN repair 1t was recently announced that appropriation
OF S10O000O would be made by the Hartman system to
radically revise the cutoff. This it said in rail
road circles has been held
mnaton to abandon the cutoff entirely can Dc shown
that the southern route feasible the cutoff
will continue to be kept out of waters
Of the lake
It is far probable that the Southern Pacific will
choose the route around the the lake before
considering the Promontory
providing it definitely decided cutoff en-
tirey
This routing would consume no greater time than
consumed when the route around the
the lake and the additional advantage would be that Salt
Lake would be the through line Pacific and
the Southern Pacific roads to the coast
The Republican strongly hints that railroad
Salt Lake talking of abandoning do not accept
the innuaon being based any railroad officials
the employ Of the Oregon Short Line
to the cuodans of the road having the
utmost protect the cutoff from storms oy
of schemng to destroy what other railroad
gnee have placed Hamans achievement in rail
road reconstruction.
We do not like have reports emanate from Salt Lake
traya the house of friends and false are outrageous in that
they msnfomng those not know of the real cond
tions the cutoff
The storm of last week delayed few hours but there
would have been delay had the raising the
been prosecuted with last summer before
We do not know what the plans of the people conte
plate but were we IN control of the would be
further delay on any retex whatever the raising the mban
beyond the reach Of the waves though they be driven y the
worst hurricane that might sweep the country
This constant agitation by the papers is challenge
to the people OF Ogden which should be the time
start an investigation to determine the these reports
to abandonment neglect of the cutoff
reports though false are having damapnc effect and
should be met such that no repetition of them
The Weber club might n this matter