Salt Lake Herald | 1899-06-20 | Page 3 | Contract for a Million Ties

GONJBACTFOR A AI > MILLION IS i 0 SHORT LUTES ST ANTHONY BRACH TO BE PUSHED Will Probably Extended Many Miles Beyond the Idaho CityTo Stop There For Present The St Anthony branch of the Oreson Short Line is to be completed In time for I I the hauling of the fall crops A contract has ben let to the Thompson Mercantile com pan of St Anthonj Iila for 1 OX 030 ties to he delivered on the grade sometime some-time between Aup 15 and Sept 13 Other contracts are being let or will he le within a few days md oven contrat will reiiulro that the work be rushed through to completion St Anthonj will he the preeut terminus I I termi-nus of the road hu i is oimly a mater of time until St Anthony will bo only the end of a division and the road will extend many miles past that town Hia countr up there Is rapidl filling up and the railroad will follow the neopli I ProoerH around St Anthony has advanced xunced JO per cent since it was ilecde to build this branch and the people are very prosperous Bids have been called for for the grading of the road to St I AntImony and a number of grading companies com-panies have already entered the race I 1 will be a big piece 1 of work the mainline i main-line being forty miles long and numerous I sidings and switches will have to be con = tructed The contracts will be awarded net Friday the S < 1