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Show TO TAP MA NT I AND MARYSVALE. The Railroad Project That is at Present Creating Interest. A dispatch from San Francisco, dated March 12, speaking of the sale of the California cc Xevuda R. It. Co to Eastern capitalists, r -ys: The road was offered to tlx Bioiington, which proposed to build l!irou..;i Fort Fetter-man Fetter-man to the coast.' i his theory is strongly upheld by : in , "act that the pass near the foil -s so strong a strategic point to iai;road builders that the Burlingt. ii id it for a long t ime with a shot - :n g:t ir; but the Northwestern man. i,'cii to capture it Mid lay track tin :;: it. However, tiie Burlington wt :e ooi to be outdone, and using strategy c.?inht their rivals retook the coyen d groa al and tore up the. track and - Lisa; the Northwestern North-western had taken mi i: ie-h trouble to get down. From i'o' h-; i he road will go across the Neva I i plains, tapping I its rich gold a. d sii-er districts to Crystal Springs -n lii w- sern border of Utah, when- rao !: be built t :irty miles to Yi l , giving a through c mnection ovei ti e I'lali Centrnl t Salt Lake. Fr ;:i Ciystal Springs it will be contiir e I ov r ihe Esculanto dt-sert, and ski ' ii a the foothills of the Tushar mouiu: i' s. o't to Junction where another co ne-. t :-:i with .Salt Lske is to l e in d r twelve mile branch to Marys -'i eo:i.iecling with the San Pete Yu. y raii oad. From Junction it is an e .n i-- a: to cross the fertile valley, fo'iurd by Piute and Emery counties, b. i igi : Curtis Creek and the San Rafael riwr. and proceed thence to Green river, and over the Denver and Rio G-aude tracks to Grand Junction a; d so by the broad-gauge broad-gauge of the Coloi oio MMandto Denver Den-ver and Pueblo. T'd- r-i-i-1 will tap a magnificent coiinir. . reh with the most highly cultiv ifd .'. lis and mines of precious metals :i i ! v-o i !. |