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Show PROJECTED DTA.H BAILR0AD3. There appears to be a furoro at the present time- in regard to railroads in thin territory, the projocU of which have becotu so numeroua as to b rather bewildering. Wc have heretofore hereto-fore noticed soveral of thoo contemplated contem-plated enterprises. In our local columns col-umns to-day allusion is made to the incorporation of a company for the immediate building of a road from Iron city to the head of the navigable waters of tlio Colorado in Arizona, ir. order to enable the Great Western Iron company to reach tho oce:ui to trans- nort tboir ntwl mO uull an In ii.u- curo machinery for a rolling mill ami other works. The immense, deposits of iron and coal at that point will doubtless warrant this enterprise, which will also aid in sottling op the southern country. For this road a bill has been presented in the house of representatives, asking tho right of way through the public lands. Tho right of way is mkod by the Salt Lako aud Coalville railroad to construct a line of road about forty miles in length between Coalville and Salt Lako. The bill provides for one hundred feet on each side of the track and the usual amount of public lands for stations, etc. If any section of tho road is not completed within five years tUe right of way shall bo forfeited. Delegate Haginuiss has introduced a bill to enable tho Helena, National Park and Utali railroad company to build their line of railroad and telegraph tele-graph through the territories of Utah, Idaho and Montana, by the way of Henry's Lake Pass, Snake Utvor Valley, and by the best practicable route ai shall be selected by tho company, com-pany, from the city of Helena to the nearest and most convenient point on tho Union or Central Pacific railroads, rail-roads, or to the nearest railroad con nection. Delegate Cannon has introduced a bill asking for the right of way for the construction of a railroad and telegraph from Salt Lake citv bv way of Provo and Payaon city in Utah territory, ter-ritory, to the thirty-seventh parallel of latitude, with the privilege of extending ex-tending the road to the lino of tho Texas and Pacific railroad. The usual grant of one hundred feet on each side of the track is asked for. The grant, if passed, shall not exclude n the passage through any canon that this road may traverse of am other j railroad or highway that has" been heretofore or that ilia v hereafter be chartered. The com pad v shall tile a map of the proposed line' within six monihs, and complete their road within ten years. The road shall be a post-route and military road, subject to tho use of the United States for postal, military, and all ether government gov-ernment service, and also subject to sucn regulations as congress mav impose im-pose restricting the charges for" such government transportation. This is we nan boutuern railroad and it, connection. A bill has been introduced by Del- tae Uan e.tern railroad, to build ana extend its hue from Salt I ake "tv by way of Tooele, KusU, Tintic IamiT"ier e? the most ad-vamageous ad-vamageous and practicable route to morvi-e, m tr.e uW man-er tneir tranca:so, road-bed and a' property belonging to tho compinv toau amount not to exceed $10 oi m go id. P'-'r mile, for the entre Jeug:h of sa:d iiad, ujjn auc'a term-as term-as may seem to them bs. Cpon the mortgage they may ise mortgage-bonds, not to exceed the sauie amount per mile; but in no case snail the L nited States bo liable in any way whatever for anvthing con by sa:d company. The road caut be completed iu ten vears. |