The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-12

double the direct benefits accruing tc
Salt Lake City will be greater in 1911
than those during any preceding period
of time. A few Illustrations:
Recently the directors of the Harri.
man lines appropriated the enormous
sum of S75,000,000 to be used in the
double tracking of the Hartman lines
the Missouri river to the Pacific coast
This means the carrying forward to
the earliest possible completion a plan
Inaugurated by Mr.. Hartman nearly
ten years ago. In sections where the
weather will permit, this double track.
ing is already under way, and with the
opening of spring will be pushed with
greater vigor. Note the Significance
of this to the Utah metropolis for this
year Salt Lake is the natural bust
ness, financial and supply center of the
whole intermountain empire, the rami-
fications of the city's trade reaching
far into Nevada, Colorado, Idaho and
Wyoming 1t is conservatively esti-
mated by experts who are In q position
to form an accurate judgment, that
dumug the present year Salt Lake will
receive directly from this double track
ing Of the Hartman lines, not less than
So 900, 900. called directly from the
money centers Of the east to be dis
tributed hero.
And there is moro to this railroad
end of the story:
BY the first Of June the Salt Lake
Route will have completed its "high
line' through that portion Of Nevada
where heretofore washouts nearly every
year have caused the suspension of
travel and traffic, sometimes for weeks
at period, The new "high line" is
located above the possible reach of the
flood waters, and an uninterrupted,
direct service between Salt Lake City
and Los Angeles is now assured. OF
the millions expended In this gigantic
directly back to Salt Lake, but princi
pal and lasting benefit to be derived
comes through tho establishment of
the uninterrupted service. Salt Lake
is just as naturally an objective point
for tourists as is Los Angeles; during
the summer season it's climatic condi-
tions and attractions are unexcelled
anywhere, The certainty Of quick,
through service between the City Of
tho Angels and the City of the Saints
means the expenditure here by tourists
OF millions Of dollars during the sum
mer that would otherwise be carried
to the western coast.
Developments of the past week in
Moffat road circles show that Colo.
RADIO people are alive to the necessity
of another and shorter route from
Dcnver TO Salt Lake, originating in
Denver TO cut great tunnel through
the continental divide and 30 carry the
road on from Steamboat Springs, its
present terminal, by the most direct
route Oh to Salt Lake City. This tun-
mel project will constitute ono of the
most gigantic pieces of work. in the
history of railroad engineering. It
will cost many millions, but it is CON
fidently believed will in tho end prove
profitable, In view Of the vnst aren
Of fertile agricultural land and the
rich mineral regions to be thus. tapped:
In connection with one phase Of
railroad activity in the territory imme.
diateiy tributary to Salt Lake, the
prospective establishment Of n factory
here for the manufacture of car wheels.
assumes more definite form. The Grit
fin Wheel works. the largest manufac
turors of car wheels in the country, has
already purchased site for a local