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Show THE UTAH AND WYOMING RAILWAY. Their line from Corinne to Granger crosses into Cache valley near where the Utah & Northern does, takes up Blacksmith's Fork, then up North Fork of same, down across Bear river above the lake, up Twin creeks and down Ham's Fork to Granger-100 miles. At the latter summit there must be a tunnel 1,800 feet long, with which the ruling grade is 1.8 per cent. The line is surveyed by not cross-sectioned. If it can be taken into Cache valley via Box Elder canyon, it will shorten it by twenty miles or so. There is a strip of coal, said to be 250 feet in thickness altogether, twenty to thirty veins, the formation being 3,000 feet thick, on the summit between Granger and Bear river, of which the Utah & Wyoming have secured four-fifths, perhaps 10,000 acres. Of course, it will be of no use to them unless they build a road from it to Corinne, or Gallatin, or some other market. With that done, we should say this coal bank, a mile wide by fifteen miles long, was very valuable. Mr. Negus says he will begin constructing grade in Blacksmith's Fork canyon when the weather settles.-Ogden Pilot. |