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Utah Deer. Hunters and fishermen will do well to trek to Utah this autumn. For them, David H. Madsen, State Fish and Game Commissioner, has announced a para dise: "More deer than any white man ever saw in the State . . . 30, 000 to 40,000 pheasants in Salt Lake and Utah counties this fall... the largest fish producing plant in the United States." Utah has public shooting grounds of 12,000 acres with accommodations for 1,000 sportsmen...
...lower middle column, speaking of the Moffat road (Denver & Salt Lake), you say: "To climb James Peak and thread a pass 11,660 ft. high, his tracks had to climb 30 miles up 4% grades. ... It was . . . and is ... the highest standard-gauge railroad in the world...
...eight weeks, officials predicted, and the first train would go through. The desirability of sending trains under rather than over the Continental Divide at that point was first discovered by a Denver banker, David Halliday Moffat, after he had spent a fortune building and trying to operate the Denver & Salt Lake R. R. To climb James Peak and thread a pass 11,660 ft. high, his tracks had to climb 30 miles up 4% grades, describing in 23 miles curves totaling 28 full circles. It was-and is-the highest standard-gauge railroad in the world, far above timberline...
...David Moffat wanted to build, now nearly finished, will do the following things: ensure year-round train service, on two tracks, by burrowing under the snow-blockade line of the Continental Divide, replacing 23 miles of 4% grades with six miles of 2% grades; make Denver 44 miles nearer Salt Lake City than via the Union Pacific, 174 miles nearer than via Pueblo on the present Denver & Rio Grande Western route; it will carry motorists under the Divide, on flatcars the year round; carry oil, power and water lines through the Divide in a special eight-foot bore parallel...
Between Sept. 1?15: Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, Boise, Butte, Spokane, Seattle, Portland...