Show RAILROAD TALK SOME 01 THE LATEST MOVES ON THE CHECKER BO the castle valley railroad is a week nearer realization than seven da a ago we really can t hear the locomotive s screech vet batitis not a dead sure pro I 1 position thit th it all 0 the ties that may be needed in the construct on ot the road are still in the green timber the field of railto id speculation ie quite i broad one to d y and one fello v s buesa is as good as his ne gabor s the big tello s themselves don t appear to be real sure what ne v developments will crop up to morrow in the railroad mushroom bed the consolidation of the rio grande roads and subsequent friendly alliance with the union pacific don t api ear to have settled the situation in this neck 0 the woods a little bit neither does the proposed extension of the oregon short line appear to hive bluffed sena tor clark into throwing up the ob of de akridg three times a day that his san pedro salt lake and hot air line is to be built sure for the twentieth thou sand time it is announce ed that the burlington is going to be extended from wyoming to salt lake cita and the announcement that the rock island and santa aronds haie allied on a roid to tide w and chica go has reached its milli oneth assertion like the star of empire the course 0 rail road building is westward and the furth the better five weeks ago the progress was the first piper in uniti to announce that a sune hid been made apparently li cisco on the R gradde western to a point a short I 1 stance green riv cr eing the river about t 0 o miles be low the mouth 0 the san ratael river since that time every paper in salt lake has drav n from that article the act that a sune has beba made from cis etc we stated then that it looked as though the rio grande no v better knoon as the gould system was deter mined to secure a short line to the coast canyon since that as bertion was made a surveying party numbering 15 hns begun very earnest work in silina cannon questioned relative to the meaning 0 the work in the cannon we notice that our friend robt forrester expert coal land examiner and buier or the kio grande western folks recently stated that the survey ing corps up the canyon mean anything not at all but now we find thit mr forrester is located on the ireland ranch in em pah a tributary of salim binion and proximity to where the very best coal measures in utah are located the ime sime s report tells us that mr for rester is there to stai except hen en in other business right now we understand he is headed or south america to expert a coal property the ireland ranch business is quite as signi alcant as the work in salina canyon 0 o one ever accused bob of being a rancher but as i cual expert and buyer of coal property he is hard to beat and no v comes the organization of the cal forma rail v ay company in california which is slid to be a part of the gould system gen W H hart who filed its articles 0 incorporation is quoted as saving that bis road is to be apart of the gould estem which is the rio grande and that the ne v route will shorten the distance between chic ago and san francisco miles that s the distance that can be saved by the cut off through bemery count |