Show ROAD fOR SALT LAKE LAKEI I Announcement of Intention to Extend to Routt County Gives Added Impetus OPENS WEALTHY COUNTRY COAL AND MINERAL IN ABUNDANCE ABUNDANCE ABUNDANCE DANCE TO BE FOUND FOUNDs s The announcement that a 0 syndicate of Denver men has been formed to extend the MoUnt Moffat road from Yarmony its pres present present ent eat terminus te to the Routt coal fields ds fifty tiny miles farther west gives a new Im Impetus Impetus petus etus to the interest created In the he new newline newline Fine line coming Into Salt Suit Lake Lak Lake from east and has caused the discussion of the con construction construction of the th Utah end of the line fine as by br Utah capitalists The syn sn syndicate syndicate proposed recently formed in Denver hap has completed Its negotiations and is also con considering com the proposition to tunnel the tile main range near flour Jam peak The syn syndicate is controlled by b a number of C CDo wealthy Denver men nien Including D Dodge Do ge and Henry M 11 Porter The follow following followIng folloWIng ing story of the Moffat road and its possibilities possibilities bullies in the near future futuro is taken from the Denver Post f Nears Yampa Fields The Tho Moffat road rood Is la now m miles west of Denver and a n gap sap of forty miles re remains I I mains between that poInt and the tho Yampa I I coal fields These fields are but a U part fields and It jt Wilt will be of the Routt county necessary to extend the line line from rom fifty to sixty miles from the present terminus to strike the main body of coal The arrangements arran now perfected mean that the road will be completed to or al almost almost almost the most to Steamboat Springs during present year ear During the ho past three months but very little ittIe work has haB been done on tho the Moffat road although Mr Moffat would not taKe taKeoff takeoff takeoff off the entire force of workmen He de determined determined to do what work he could re regardless regardless of the financial situation For more than a year it has hs h been impossible to place any railroad securities In the east because of at the adverse sentiment toward the railroads Road Will Soon Pay Many of the men connected with the syndicate which will wilt build the intervening link between Yarmony and the coal fields are members of the Continental Railway Tunnel runnel company As soon as coal shipments commence from Crom Routt county it is expected that the Moffat road will become a paying enter enterprise enterprise prise For the last two years the demand for fuel has lias been greater than the output and the Moffat road will have no difficulty culty in finding a market for alt all the coal coat it can ean an handle The Th coal fields cover an area arca of ot 1000 square miles All AU kinds of coal are pro produced The anthracite found lu ill Routt county count is js as good as that found in the Pennsylvania coal fields The bituminous and Dud ar are as good as any product in this part of the thc country To Open Routt County The Tho hardest harde construction work which wilt will have to tobe be e done will be In Egeria gerla l canyon This canyon Is Just west of Gore canyon Some parts arts of Egeria canyon canon present as many engineering difficulties as Gore canyon where the road cost al aI almost most a million dollars a mile Tho The construction work west vest of canyon will be comparatively easy and It will not cost a great deal to build the theline theline theline line from the coal fields to Steamboat Springs When Whan the coal fields are reached by bythe b byth the tho th the actual ae ual opening of Routt county count aunt will wilt commence Dorsey Dorney Bros of St 51 Louis have formed a company to lo build a railroad miles in length from a connection with the Moffat road to the anthracite coal fields fieldsA A syndicate of eastern capitalists is 15 reported to have secured an option on the remaining unsold parts fat M the Steamboat Springs townsite and will wIn establish one of the finest resorts in Ii the country countr There Ther are we different kinds of mineral mineraI springs at Steamboat Mining properties are arc being opened up In Routt count county and large sums of money have been expended expanded by syndicates in the purchase of ranches which are being con converted converted into farms Large herds of cattle are also being raised in Routt county Into Salt Lake The me Th announcement that the Moffat Toad road is to be extended to the Routt coun county county ty tv coal fields is expected to arouse the Mormon syndicate which promised vo to 0 build the Utah end of the tiie line Reed Smoot and other members of at the Mormon church are interested In the project t Mr Moffat went to Salt Lake City during the summer to discuss the proposition with them The Utah people said they the would build the line from near the line to 10 Salt Lake City if Mr Ir Moffat would complete it from the Denver end As the tIme construction work west of theoal the coal fields will be easy es and comparatively light In cost it seems certain that there will be beno beno no trouble in meeting the requirements of the Mormon syndicate which asks a ks that the road be built to the state line |