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Show NARH0 W-GAUGE RAJLR0AD3 IN UTAH. A. correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, G. N. J., in a recent article ou narrow-gauge, railroads, gives the following information relative to these roads in Utah: There a ro six narrow-gaua roads al-rt'.i al-rt'.i iy in operation, as follows: L'tsh I Ncr.hurn, from Ugdon, Sti miles, to Franklin, in tla northwestern corner of the Territory, looking to an early enton-Jion enton-Jion to Montana; Bingham L'unon and I amp Floyd, l':! railed, from the Utah bout hem iailw.iT tj the mining district west; th;s road ia paying-' 20 pc-r cent, upon its cost SotiO.lKX), with equipment; Amoiican Fork, lti miles; ha graJos ai h gh es !'7 feot to tho mile, and curves only fee', radius it ia oporated with a lairlie enK no. The Wasatch i Jordan niter-, nn tha T.tir'n r.jin m ll: nulo; HTorag g-r .dos 15U feet; hich t,;t, 37 foot to tho mile; proposed extension, exten-sion, ten miles, of which two warobui:-in warobui:-in Summit Couoty railway, fron- tho Union Pacific at Echo, south t-. Coal vi. To nine mils;'thu road i delivering 2U0 tor. of cjal par day; an extension of twenty miles sou inward in-ward is contemplated ; also another 3- oot road from these mines direct to Salt Lako city, thus sarin an immense dictation in the transportation of coal. L'lsh Western railroau. the successor of tho Salt L-ke, Savior Valley & Pi, one company. Jt was organized last June, and hai already twelve milea in operation, opera-tion, winch ill bo iccroased to twenty-fivo twenty-fivo during tho winter. It runs direct) v weit from Salt Lsko city to lnk shore, where it will b-nd southward to Toode county. Tht line immcdiato-y propoco I is only foriy-iive nn'e?, but an eveLtu,l extons:oa uf 300 milos or more is costem-pjated costem-pjated into southeastern- Nevada and southern Latif..rn:a. John "W. Young is n resident of this road, a well as the Uuh Northern. He is a son of 13ri,iham Young, a man of remarkable business talent and energy, and bids fair to become the railway king of Utah. That he is satii-ik-d with the practical workinjg of the 3-foet sane on tho Utah Northern i provevlby his udonting it for tha Utah Westtrn, whioh is dtj-igned to be a very Inns line, and, moiwiTt-r, through a vo uuii y tnai ouiu ounr no aitnoultles to the cii;triictivn of a wide-gauge road, were not tho 3-foot gaun considered uivrior. I was informed, on good authority, tbat actual trial ha demonstrate! demon-strate! that iho lS-i.m locoraotiTei on the Utah Northern haul as much paying fr-iht up a U;0-fot grade as tan be done wi'.h the 40-ton lo'om-jtiTes on the Union ar.J t'iitr;il I'aoitic roads. This remarkable remark-able fact is explained by the great ditl'-r-e:ice in dead-weight in th two c aiee of roJirg stock, which figure so largely in the uattlo of the gauges. |