Show RAILROAD TALK from a prominent visitor passing through the county the other thy whose name we promised to withhold a if that the railroad surveying outfit now in salina cannon is reilly engaged in sur vexing a road from the cannon to con hect with the main line either at mounds or farnham our informant overheard a conversation only a few alys ago be kneen an employee of the engineering department of the rio graude western company and a man much interested the coal measures of thie count that run something like this what s the reil object behind the railroad work now being done in salina cam on asked the coal man of the rail road employee railroad through castle V illey was the reply whit points will it touch queried the coal man that I 1 canoot aay but whits the name of thit settlement near orange ville Cist ledale suggested the coal ann Castl eddle well that s one town the roid will be built to I 1 im tain but to other towns some of them will be on the line of course but which ones they w ill be I 1 cannot sa how about the line touching the coal beds vu ell it will be puite an easy matter 0 o run spurs to the best coal deposits the above is just about as we received it and we hae no reason to question the veracity ot our the tour of inspection made bv george gould last week over the grande system appeared to create in his mind a most favorable impression ot the prosperous condition of both utah and colorado mr gould said that the system was offered more traffic than it could conveniently handle but hoped to have sufficient equipment to more easily and cire for the bug mess eer where he said evidence of gloo times ire to be seen i the t vo states and all of the members of the visiting I 1 art were highly gratified with the splendid conditions found in utah he further said thit all of the improvements and more that were decided to carry out by the old baird of directors would be put in force b the new board it is the intention of himself and to advance the development of great resources in every particular and is far as prospects justify in adding new inci age mr gould went east to it end an important meeting of the hoard se stopped one night at green kiver and carefully inspected other points be we enthat place and soldiers summit perhaps some good news will soon be lashed over the wire from gotham in an interview with mr gould tho salt inac ahral 1 has this to sa 0 the new branch lines mr gould is investigating the biln ties of various proposed branches and axtens ons but the one which appears to interest him most is the cisco adlina cut off and the extension 0 the mans vale branch past the cedar city iron de posits to salientes calientes Cali entes the engineers are no v working on a portion ot this propos ed construction at present it is con templates tem plated to run a line froin ci ico southwest and then as bearly west as the nature of the country will permit connecting w ith the mar avale branch at saline and having a branch running through bistle valley to a connection with the main line this vou d open up the vast der 0 iti of g coil in cas tie valley and would effect a grett sav ing of di t nce bet veen ci and salina the next step in the proposed construe tion of ne v anad would be the extension ot the eirv mirv avale branch to i connection with the oregon short line california extension and with the sin pedro at or near Cili entes the construction of this piece of road would give a shorter line to the boist and would open up coal and iron fields that hive lain dor mant for man years mr gould slid last evening that nothing had been de aided in the wa of extension but 1 e la giving the subject careful cons aeration de ration |