| Show Movements of tho Union Pacific The latest scheme of the Union Pacific officials said a person whoisin a position to know considerable in regard to the lans and purposes of that body is to locate cate tho smelters west of the city where there is plenty of water With a few changes that must soon be made this loca ton will be the most convenient for collecting ecting the ore What changes do you refer to1 The first change to be made is the roadguaging of iheroad to Saltair The expense of transferring the salt from nar rowgauge to standardgauge cars is much greater than theinterest on the investment A third rail to Ogden would have saved the company a great deal of money enough to have paia for the expense three times over in five years As soon as theroad is broadgauged to Saltair Garfield and Tooeh the road will no doubt be extended to Stockton Ophir and on to ho road running t Ttic tapping it west of the divide Should this be done all the ores of Tintic Qnpir c Stockton will omevia Garfield tq < the smelters The old roadbed from thecutof to Lehi Junction can be taken up aslt will be of naearthly purpose as it passes turough a country barren of farming industry and the rails can be used on the new road The RioGrande contemplate reaching the Tintic country via Qoshen and dividing tho valuable freights of this large producing district This will drive the Union Pacific t force its way int6 Bingham as retalia tory measure and a track can be easily milt from n point about half way to Garfield Gar-field andpassing throughthe rich farming country on the benches at the foot of tho mountains This Scheme would concen trate all the ores and minerals of the Tin tic Ophir Stockton and Bingham districts and the smelters would bo convenient for the Salt Lake Wyoming California road which is surveyed that way The Tintic cutoff is the mo fc feasible movement talked of for some tyne as it will save the expense of the 1r tl train service the one road reaching mire points than the two roads are doing at present Thelarge tracts of land owned by Charles Francis Adams and other railway officials west of the Jordan Jor-dan would lead one to believe tat they are personally at tho head of the scheme |
