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Show ARIZONA &UTAll K. R. FIFTY MILES MILL HE FINISHED THIS SUMMER. Salt Lake Herald. Work is being pushed on the Arizona Ari-zona & Utah railroad. Harry McCartney, McCart-ney, the well-known civil engineer, who is chief engineer on the new road, arrived ar-rived in Salt Lake from Kingman, Ariz., yesterday, and is very enthusiastic enthusi-astic over the new proposition. "By July 20 twent.v-.two miles of the road will be in operation," said Mr. McCartney, when seen yesterday, "and fifty miles will be constructed this summer. sum-mer. The road is now being built to open up that rich mineral country between be-tween Kingman and the Colorado river on the north, where are situated the famous Mineral Park mines; also the Cerbat, the Chloride and the White Hills. The route proposed will tap the Santa Fe & Pacific at a little station called McConnica, near Kingman, and run north through the Mineral Park district dis-trict to Chloride; thence to the White hills, from which place it is proposed to run to the point where the Virgin river empties into the Colorado. "Here at the old Bonelli ferry," said the engineer, "is a very easy place to cross. A cantilever bridge can be put across the Colorado at this point at a much smaller cost than the Santa Fe bridge, which spans the river at The Needles. It would not be over 400 feet long, and would not cost a stupendous amount." The distance from Kingman to Bo-nelli's Bo-nelli's Ferry is eighty-five miles. From the latter point the route is along the Virgin and Muddy river to Moapa, which is fifty miles. From Moapa to McCune is only 116 miles, and forty miles of this is already graded. , When the Utah & Pacific company lays its track on this grade to Clover Junction, and the Arizona & Utah finishes the piece of its road now being constructed, there will only remain a gap of 116 miles between the two roads. A prominent promi-nent railroad man said yesterday that it would not be long before this 116 miles would be covered and Salt Lake would have a short connection with Los Angeles. Mr. McCartney stated that six miles of the grade are now ready, and a large force of men is at work. Two miles of track are laid, and rails and ties for twenty-two miles are purchased pur-chased and on the ground. The Santa Fe has nothing to do with the new company, as it is being built by a syndicate syn-dicate of eastern capitalists. Mr Underwood Un-derwood of Chicago, who organized the smelter trust, is the president of the company, and S. B. McConnica is vice president and general manager, Mr. McCartney, whose wide experience experi-ence as an engineer makes his statement state-ment count, says that the 'route is entirely en-tirely feasable, and that the only difficulty diffi-culty is the bridge across the Colorado. The rest of the country is all right for railroad-building, and the bridge would probably cost about $100,000, possibly more. Mr. McCartney has been all over that country, having passed down the Virgin river to the Colorado in a boat several years ago, and of late having been actively at work on the southern side of the river. |