. A glimpse of Utah, its resources, attraction and natural wonders /by Edward F. Colborn . for through traffic in May, 1905,and thereupon Salt Lake and Los Angeles—to their great delight—began shaking hands and exchanging business. This road is therealization of a Salt Lake dream that began a quarter of a centuryago. It gives Utah a new highway to the sea, puts Salt Lake andLos Angeles but twenty-six hours apart, and brings to the SaltLake smelters the ore treasures of the New Nevada, a regionwhich promises again, as in the days of the Comstock, to astonishthe mining world. The extraordinary c
. A glimpse of Utah, its resources, attraction and natural wonders /by Edward F. Colborn . for through traffic in May, 1905,and thereupon Salt Lake and Los Angeles—to their great delight—began shaking hands and exchanging business. This road is therealization of a Salt Lake dream that began a quarter of a centuryago. It gives Utah a new highway to the sea, puts Salt Lake andLos Angeles but twenty-six hours apart, and brings to the SaltLake smelters the ore treasures of the New Nevada, a regionwhich promises again, as in the days of the Comstock, to astonishthe mining world. The extraordinary copper development at Bingham and themammoth plants at Garfield for the treatment of Bingham oreshave put a new railroad across the Salt Lake Valley—a branch ofthe Denver & Rio Grande. This line transports the mine productto the smelters and carries out to the commercial world the bullionoutput. But the road now most in the Utah eye is the WesternPacific—the new line just completed from Salt Lake to San Fran-cisco, over which the cars of the Denver & Rio Grande now reach. Solid Salt Sea at Salduro, on the New Western Pacific Railway. A GLIMPSE O F U <? A 11 page fifty-two the Golden Gate. The completion of this road was of over-shadowing importance to Utah. It cost about $70,000,000 andillustrates the highest excellence of the railroad building art. Themain line passes over the Great Salt Lake, crosses the deserts andthe solid salt sea beyond, and, heedless of the Sierras, reaches SanFrancisco with a maximum grade of only one per cent over aballasted speed-road of heavy steel. It will be the first westernrailway to furnish all-steel indestructible cars for passenger traveland will bring into view new scenic wonders. Among these is thecanon of the Feather River—the California duplication of theGrand Canon of the Arkansas, but longer than that by fiftymiles. It will show for an hour the marvelous sea of solid salt inUtah, over which the dancing images of the mirage ar
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