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Show AM ERICA M FOaK RAILROAD. The announcement of this railroad enterprise will take the general public by surprise, and yet so far have the arrangements ar-rangements progressed for constructing the line, that the iron, engines and rolling stock have been purchased, and will soon arrive from the east Major E. Wilkes, who got back on Thursday night after three weeks absence during which he visited New York and Washington, Wash-ington, proceeds at once with the work of letting contracts for grading, and is desirous that the labor of Utah county and that region should build the line. It will be twenty-two miles in length, twelve miles of it being in the canyon, from the Sultana smelting works to the mouth of the canyon, and ten miles further down into the valley to connect with the Utah Southern road. It will bo of three feet gauge, and designed principally for the transportation trans-portation of bullion and ores from the Miller mine and Sultana smelting works; but it will also afford an excel-! lent facility for parties visiting the I beautiful scenery in that canyon, one of the finest in the west. The grading will be easily done, and the calculation is to have the road in running order by the first of August. The new enterprise enter-prise has our best wishes for its speedy , completion. |