| Show THE DEEP CEEEK RAILWAY Why Every Citizen Should Favor Building This Road Being asked to give a sane reason for the voting away of the Old Fort property J R Middlemiss imparted the following Because it is the only road that will bring in from the different mining camps thousands of toni of ore monthly to be handled in Salt Lake city or its immediate neighborhood necessitating the erection of smelters sampling works and reductio works for the treatment of our ores at home rather than shipping them to Omaha or Denver This will involve the expenditure ture of over one million of dollars for these works alone and when completgd they will employ from 500 to SCO men constantly These workmen with their families will i increase the population of the city from 2000 to 3000 A number of prospecting parties are in the DeepCreek country now and with the building of the road three new mining camps will be opened up soon to be equal to Park City or Tmtir giving immediate < employment to about five thou saud miners who with their wives and children will represent an approximate population of 15000 to 20000 people who must get their supplies from Salt Lake city and whose surplus earnings will be invested in-vested In this city The proposed new road is the only standard stand-ard gauge road owned and controlled by citizens of Salt Lake and with its eastern connections when completed to California will form an independent transcontinental road Competition will benefit the merchants mer-chants of this city Salt Lake will no longer be a way station but become what nature intended it should a great railway center with hundreds of lane wholesale houses instead of a few jobbing houses as present The eastern survey of this road carries I it through Coalville Park City and other I points to Evanston Wyoming it brings Park City within thirtytwo and onehalf miles of Salt Lake city by a standard gauge road and with additional smelters t erected here will bring in from Park City 1 thousands of tons of loivprado ore ntpres e it wort ilcss because its o vners cannot afford af-ford to pay the heavy freights neccssary to transport it to Omaba From Coalville and other ponts on the road sufficient coal can be brought to the city of a superior quality to any sold bore precluding the possibility of any future coal famine This coal can be retailed hero at S350 per ton and thousands of tons of screenings and slack can be delivered to manufacturers at t per ton in a measure solving the problem prob-lem of cheap fuel for factories and adding thousands of thrifty mechanics of all classes to our rapidly increasing population Building stone marble of the finest qual sty fireclay and other minerals are all on the line of this road ready for development develop-ment Vast forests of timber of every kind will become tributary to this road and furnish Salt Lake city for the next hundred hun-dred years with all the square timber and sawed lumber the city will require in her onward march to the foremost rank in veaith and population of all the cities between be-tween Chicago and San Francisco The voice of the progressive men of Salt Lake peaks in no uncertain tones Give us the road to Deep Creek and give it to us now |
