The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-28
DODGE TALKS ABOUT
MOFFAT ROAD PLANS
Veteran Builder Says Salt Lake
and Utah VIII Receive
Benefits.
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So far as an, personally concerned
wou'd NOT care 10 again become active
10 stop ct Steamboat Springs. II Is the
determination u push the road through
to Salt Lake that has prompted me to
Are you glad to be back in the busi-
rese?" was asked
Colonel Dodge smiled. and then his
NC / am not" said Colonel Dodge.
SLOWLY. but I consider It my duty to
take mp this work my duty to the state
9 snS It's s5 m 70 aSd 10
Colorado and To the entire west cannot
be reekoned ! consider 1t one Of the
most important enterprises ever under
taken in the west. and certainly the most
important In a decade TO Denver Were
the road to remain at a standstlll at
Steamboat Springs. or merely to have
one or more minor branches ! would not
consider il of sufficient Importance To
the state for me to assume control. but
with this determination 10 extend II to
Salt Lake. as originally planned do.
az ] said, consider 1t my duty TO as
sume its control
Interest in Road Renewed.
That the assumption of control of the
Moffat road already has instilled conf
dence into the minds Of the people was
demonstrated yesterday. for everywhere
a.
II Is remembered that Colonel Dodge has
rarely or never undertaken a work that
he has not finished: that II is his rule
TO never assume any responsibility that
he is not determined TO carry through TO
the end--and to the glory Of the west
II was through the efforts of Colonel
Dodge that the MoNat road is now In
generally known Moffat had reached Var
p1onv with his rails. There was no money
Egideny Ed he was at sdr the final Stopping
was a gloomy period In the life Of Mof
fat
1t was at this critical point tha, Col
Camp!on Henry NJ Porter. j. X. Mul-
leE; G. G. l.io6hardt. Lawrence c,
ator Guggcnheim. Samuel NJ Perry,
William Byrd Page. the late United
states senator C. j. Hughes. Or. w, A.
Bell and. in all abou, twenty men They
nut up ST 25e. 00n and carried the road
through 10 Stcn nlboat Springs DR.. Bell
who resides IN Colorado Springs, was the
only man not a resident of Denver who
was in the pool and he can, in way
he counted Denver man as he is very
heavy realty owner in This city. Temple
Court being one OF his big office build
in"s
"r do not think we will have any trou-
Bile about The money said Colonel
Dodge. ''In fact I am nuite sure that we
viii get il for the building of the road
through 10 Salt Lake. There no
| engineering difficulties 10 be encountered
| from Steamboat Springs TO the Nasatch
crossing OF the Wasatch also is easy.
| There is no reason why we cannot cross
at an altitude of 1000 feet and there is
| also no reason why the grade should be
moro than per cent It is practically
n watHr grade from Steamboat Springs to
the Wasatch.
Passes Through Uintah Valley.
"In Utah the Moffat road passes up :he
| famous tintah valley. Seventy five De r
cent Of The water in Utah is in this val
| ley. The government has opened that
great Cintah Indian reservation and has
| spent upward OF S600,0 900 TO get water on
the land. and imagine irrigated land as
| fine as any around Grand Junction sell
ing on an average Of $50 per acre.
THAT section Of Utah is several weeks
ahead of our own western slope In sea
sons and is destined 10 be the garden
and orchard spot OF the world. We will
| open that magnificent country. which
now is from 100 to l50 miles off the rail
road.
"The mineral prospects and farming
prospects of Colorado and Utah are toe
well known 10 speak of at this time
IN tba STleT Mdrat If means p6nd tremendous
There are now approximately OoC
neone in the Cintah valley and orchards
When alfalfa is lust starting in Colo
RADIO II Is a foot high in the valley.
The board OF directors OF the Mofat
road was reorsanized Monday with Col
and Charles Boettcher succeeding on the
board the late G. J. Hughes Thomas
kocly and Frank B. Gibson, In the Of
1ce OF John +. Campion the capitalists
now interested in the road met yester-
day morning and the plans OF oreanizinS
the Denver Railway Securities company
were discussed which company is to
take hold Of the road The g" noS 6So was
take over the Mofrat interests.
The designations of Frank Il, Gibson
former vice. president of the Interna-
tlonal Trust company. and Thomas
Kcciv. vice president OF the First Ma
tional bank severed The connection be-
tween The Moffat road and the Monat
banks, and. ii is believed by local cap.
ltalists will tend 10 strengthen the ROAD
with the small investor and the public
at large as thcy have heretofore had
no chance in the road.
Immed ate Needs Provided For.
Colonel Dodge further stated that funds
TO care for the present Indebtedness Of
the road and for running expenses had
been provided, The. $i;OOO.ooo in notes
VIII be taken care OF and 1t is under
stood that an extension on tho notes fer
tw" wears has been secured
/ The assumption of control by Colonel
Dodge has done more than anything
that could have been done 10 PUT the
Momat rond suuarcy on It's feet, With
the late General w, J, Palmer he built
the Denver 6 Rio Grande and the Rio
! Grandc Western, overcoming obstacles
far more DESPERATE than those confront
ing HIM in the Moffat road 1, WAS he
row gauge line 10 the great system Fl
now is; and II was his viccr that, 10 a
very large @Ntcnt. populated The terri
tory travcrsed nv the Rio Grande. AS
vice president Of the Colorado Midland
he made that road power. II Is doubt
full II there is another railroad builder