Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-13
HARTMAN OFFICIALS GO WEST
President and Heads Of Departments
to Visit Ogden.
WILL CONSIDER IMPROVEMENTS
Part of the Read TO he Double
Tracked first 20 ne Decided
New Health Resort on
Lake.


OGDEN. Feb z. - Especially - Loyett
Kruttschnitt and other high officials OF the
Hartman lines are expected in ogden the
coming week to decide on the improvements
most urgently demanded by the Union Pa
/ cific and Southern Pacific in and around
Ogden. and, 1t is confidently asserted, that
as result of the visit, the first OF the
double trackage Of the Union Pacific will
be from ogden east through Weber Can
yon.
The Bee. in its special correspondence
from Ogden, forecast these big improve
ments two weeks prior 10 the official an
nouncement by the executive committee in
New York, and at the time predicted that
campaign Of such magnitude would be
material factor in restoring confidence
in business and financial circles throughout
the country. This prediction Is being VERT
| fled in the comments OF the press and the
expressions of prominent men Of affairs
No section OF the country has more cause
TO rejoice over the evidence Of a restoration
of confidence than this part Of Utah, as
Ogden and tributary country are ripe for
an advancement unequalled in the inter
mountain region.
Ogden Moves Forward.
/ Ogden has been making remarkable prog
ress, while some cities in the west have
been halted or have suffered retrogression,
and now II this city's forward movement
/ is to be accelerated by railroad construction
/ in every direction from this railroad Juno
ton the growth will Approximate a boom.
! There has been some pessimistic comment
to the effect that the Hartman people are
| simply anticipating Improvement work 10
be performed at a far distant time and
| have made their announcement for the
sole purpose of warning off those who
might contemplate an invasion Of Harri-
man territory along the great central high
way, but those we'll posted in railroad af-
fairs point out that II the Hartman roads
are to be fully prepared for the world 8
fair traffic to San Francisco, and for the
return OF unalloyed prosperity, which Is in
eVitable, in the course OF say one. two or
three years, those roads must be double
tracked from Omaha to ogden and from
ogden to San Francisco. along the greatest
transcontinental highway in the United
States
James ]. Hill. at the time OF the freight
| congestion in 1867, confessed that the rail.
roads Of the United States were years be-
hind the traffic requirements II that were
true then, what will be the degree of in
H.
natural course OF events, the country re.
gaining Its equilibrium, begins to tax mine
and factory and farm to capacity to meet
the wants of a nation OF over 1900 OO6 peo.
| pie? The Hartman executive committed
Is acting wisely in beginning this early, yet
OPPORTUNITY, to escape the culpability that
must attach to other railroad managers
when through failure to improve their lines
In period of comparative inactivity they
shall find with return Of prosperity their
transportation facilities to be wholly in
adequate? That reas Oning has led local
railroad men to affirm that not only will
the Union Pacific and South Pacific be
double-tracked before the opening Of the
worlds fair, but the work Of improving will
begin Immediately and be rushed to COM
pletion as soon as possible.
New Health Resort.
Men Of money are considering the prac-
ticabiity Of obtaining a long time lease OF
railroad lands on Promontory Point, the
neck OF land which divides the waters OF
Great Salt lake, and Of building thereon q
pleasure and health resort
The resort would be twenty miles west OF
! ogden, on the Ogden-Lucin cutoff, across
which eight overland trains pass daily.
There is a beautiful sandy beach at
Promontory Point, which would make an
ideal spot for summer bathing.
| The waters OF the finland sea-" saturated
with salt and other substances, possess
curative properties that would give to the
bathing an added attraction for those
afflicted with disease.
There is no bathing quite so pleasing as
| that TO be had in the Great Salt lake one
cannot sink. The buoyancy OF the water
allows Of all the comforts OF couch at
home. The bather, with a head rest. can
float unconcernedly as he reads paper or
smokes a cigar That kind Of bathing
should appeal to any one afflicted with a
tired feeling, whose lassitude forbids apy
more than minimum Of effort for a maxi
mum Of joy.