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Show H'.ltli PARALLEL LINE. Another Kat anil M'ent Ilnll-roail. Ilnll-roail. Hit hue.-.-" of! he Kejjion through vthu-h ii Hiii:.! iihsn. The subject of a recent article in your paner, containing an extract "from the Eureka (Xuvada) Sc-V.', upon railroad interests in an easterly .Uid v.-este-rlv eLr-je'.iou t! -rough Utah and Nevada. i worthy of further con-; sideratiun. In a few years St. Louis ; and San Francisco wul have a new and dirci t connection by rail, which to individualize we will call the 3?th Parallel Koad, and tliis route will p.iss directlv through the richest mineral. min-eral. ;i"rieiiltural and timber districts of C... ..--do. Utah and Nevada. Ik-lv;,.;n Ik-lv;,.;n the V;h and -list parallels, north Luh'.ide. in these three Tcrrito-lie-s, ;o-o c.-mi rUed more of iVd, sil-! sil-! v. r. i. c.al. cpix-r. thi.i- r, ! liivV.iv, marble and other vaina1 'ie ' uate.iai iiep-V. man in any other ' --tie.il of . .pial area, acre's.-lhc great ' T..I- vi-ib.it of c-iintrv, extending ' :': I'enver.iu CV cad. .."i.:-Mono and Invo c..,:-'!i.s. in Caiifvi-nia. is cm-1'i'ritiv. cm-1'i'ritiv. mi. iVred. but oii.,ii-h ::.is 1 . .Ve, .-.."vi to prove that at li'j di-t.u:t dav it will cnibr.-.eo m'"co mills, uiincs, "fiu'iia1-'" id rvluction works than ill the country besides ' wt-t of the Mississippi. A railroad n-ute that will traverse near to the central line of this great mineral K it will in time have me.re local business than any other inins-cent;uenlal re Mel whatewr. Tnis entire Ivlt of richest mineral territory, 'V-0 miles in width, and -ot in length, would pay untold tribute to such a central route. Any railroad pr -jecteel uj-on or near to tins line indicated, or so Wated as u. iwuni' a great fitxler thereto, nuist 1 '0,01 'c ic tf'er-?nts, an assured j-H'.-1-..w.. S dt bake City holds a central cen-tral place within this mighty belt. Nature has formed the bulwarks of her com i nanding g. 'graphical osi-fon. osi-fon. It is in view of this 'general out-j out-j look fhat we field the following suggestion sug-gestion to those contained in your article, as well s those expresseel bv ' the N... (ok. Unquestionablv the true policy of mine-owners unit residents in the central cen-tral counties of Nevada is to work for an easl and west road, which w ill in turn Income a link in the 39th parallel par-allel retail, direct between St. Iahus and San Francisco. The route suggested by the &ntiiw! article relates to that iortien westward west-ward from Salt Bake City through Nevada, into the State of California. Il is well known that capitalists are already projecting a road from Denver Den-ver to alt Lake City. Two roads have been proposed, either of which will traverse new mining districts, and a region unsurpassed in coal, timber, water and grazing lands. In Utah, this route will como into close relation with all and pass through several of the already developul silver and coal districts of the Wasatch llange, thcyrait treasure rc;in of the Territory. Westward from this point, the most favorable route will follow the line of the Salt Lake, Sevier Sev-ier Valley and 1'ioche liailroad for a considerable distance, passing the southern extremitvofi-ireat Salt l.ake, leaving this road in Rush Valley ne'ar the old overland stage road. Some of the more important mining min-ing districts traversed or passed near to, in Utah, arc Tooele, Kush Valley, Ophir, Camp Floyd and Tintie, in the Oquirrh liange, on the loll ; then West Tintie, Columbia, Dugway. Granite Mt., Drum, Chiton, Pleasant Valley and Deep Creek, the last named nam-ed being at the western line of the Territory. In Nevada the route suggested will traverse for nearly its entire length the richest portion of that State mining districts, line grazing country, valleys, hills and ranches, already abounding with vast herds of cattle and sheep. To enumerate some of the principal mining and grazing localities, lo-calities, which with a railroad constructed, con-structed, would double and quadruple their yield of treasure, and be a tributary tribu-tary to the road, we notice in succession, suc-cession, going west want Irom Antelope Ante-lope Springs, Shell Creek, Egan Canon, White Pine Valley, Newark, Eureka, Hamilton, Treasure 'Hill, Robinson, Kingston, Smoky Valley, Belmont, Kevielle, Hot Creek, Morey, -Austin, Twin River, lone, Mammoth, Ellsworth, Columbus, Volcano, Silver Peak, San Antonio, Cokl Mountain, Aurora, Jxme Pine, and then across the borders of the State into Mono cr Inyo County, California. From thence the road could cross the Sierra Nevadas, by a better pass than to the northward, and cither connecting with the railroad system of California, already constructed at Visalia, nr could branch by one arm to San Francisco, and the other to Los Angeles or other southern port. The mines in the vicinity of Austin alone, lying directly upon this route, have produced $i,o90,000 treasure per anim.n, and would quickly quadruple quad-ruple that sum. This road is demanded by the inexhaustible in-exhaustible resources of the country. Its construction would not hinder the prosperity of the Union and Central Pacific. The more rapid development develop-ment of fhe whole country would afford af-ford business for both great routes, and transverse roads, coimccting the two at localities ranging from two hundred tn three hundred miles apart, would also be demanded. As well might one object to more than one great railroad across the Alleghan-ies, Alleghan-ies, where now are the four lines N. Y. Central, Eric. Panna. Central and Baltimore et Ohio. This immense region of treasure and production produc-tion will soon very soon comprise com-prise threo States of half a million industrious in-dustrious population. Nature has indicated this additional great highway high-way across the continent, and the time for consideration and organization organiza-tion to begin construction is now. The Salt Lake, Sevier Valley & Pioehc road, already begun, will be the central feeder, as it will also for a part form a middle section on the greater cast and west line. The iron deposits and coal fields of South Western Utah, marvellous in extent and quality, need to be reached by rail, in order to supply materials for building new roads and increasing fuel for operating both old and new-roads new-roads in tins section of country. "With this road in operation from Salt Lake City to the iron mountains of Iron County, Utah, smelting furnaces and rolling mills will very soon follow. Already eastern capitalists arc considering con-sidering the erection of these works. Analysis of the ore has shown these, to be among the richest hematite and magnetic mines of the world. Coal, lime, lire-stone, and all agricultural resources arc at hand in great abundance. abun-dance. E. M. B. Salt Lake City, Aug. 9, KS"3. |