. A glimpse of Utah, its resources, attraction and natural wonders /by Edward F. Colborn . Angeles & Salt Lake (The ClarkRoad), was opened for through traffic in May, 1905, andthereupon 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 cen-tury ago. It gives Utah a new highway to the sea, puts Salt Lakeand Los Angeles but twenty-six hours apart, and brings to theSalt Lake smelters the ore treasures of the New Nevada, aregion which promises again, as in the days of the Comstock,t
. A glimpse of Utah, its resources, attraction and natural wonders /by Edward F. Colborn . Angeles & Salt Lake (The ClarkRoad), was opened for through traffic in May, 1905, andthereupon 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 cen-tury ago. It gives Utah a new highway to the sea, puts Salt Lakeand Los Angeles but twenty-six hours apart, and brings to theSalt Lake smelters the ore treasures of the New Nevada, aregion which promises again, as in the days of the Comstock,to astonish the mining world. Q The extraordinary copper development at Bingham and themammoth plants at Garfield for the treatment of Bingham ores,have 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. Gl, But the road now most in the Utah eye is the Western Pacific—the new line from Salt Lake to San Francisco—the connection. Castle Gate. A GLIMPSE O F U <t A H page fifty-two that will place the cars of the Denver & Rio Grande beside theGolden Gate. In point of importance to Utah this great enter-prise, already well along with its steel way towards the Pacific, over-shadows all others. It will cost around seventy million dollars, andillustrate the highest state of the railroad building art. It passesover the Great Salt Lake, crosses the deserts beyond, and heedlessof the Sierras, will reach San Francisco with a maximum grade ofone per cent, and be a speed-road of finest steel and will bring into view new scenic wonders, among which is theCanon of the Feather river, a California duplication of the GrandCanon of the Arkansas, but longer by more than fifty miles. Thusin modern times does a new Napoleon declare, There will be noAlps! Already more than six hundred miles of steel are laid westof Salt Lake. Thousands o
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