Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-06-13 | Page 23 | Harriman Lines down in Mexico

HARRIMAN LINES LINESt J t DOWN IN MEXICO Nearly 1800 Miles of Road of Which 1000 Have Been Completed TO OPEN RICH COUNTRY NATIVE AND AMERICAN LABOR EMPLOYED ON ROAD Increasing interest U to manifested In Inthe Inthe the tM Harriman lines line II in Mexico by b Amer Arner American ican kana and in the mineral minerai and Umber timber wealth to which theY th y will give five Ye access These lines the construction of which is financed by the Southern Pacific when completed will approximate a acost 1 cost coet of Including all equip equipment c ment but hut a part of this thi amount will be I orr offset et by a subsidy grant of the Mexican Mexican 1 can government of J per mile of road covering about half of the mile mileage 1 age ag in Mexico The Harriman system I will have about I miles of road and of nf this about 1000 miles have already been built while lIe work on the remaining 1 IO rapidly nearing completion om Of the thet total t tal constructed and projected road read r lid t 1560 Isee miles mlle are entire entirely new while about IO 80 miles of the line between Nogales Negates and Inet I a reconstruction of an all old line lineTh The Th raw rt Harriman lines enter Mexico co cn at Nogales and proceed from there thre thereto thereto to Guaymas on the th Gulf of California then th n In a southerly and easterly direction direction tion tien to in the th state of Sins Sma Sinal loa lea l from there then to an important important important tant seaport situated actuated miles south of nf No allI From thin thill point the line Tuna runs southward to Tepee Tepec and then east eastward pa eastward t tard ward ard to tf Guadalajara where it will eon con connect fleet with th the Mexican Central The Theline ThelinE Theline line of direction here hert marked forms the thep p main trunk line Against the th tots total mileage represented o here hn there Is hi being operated in Mexico a total of 1090 miles mainly i ender federal concession and as all ceded by h Individual state but of nf all this only scents s mn miles is le I of 4 feet S inh gauge alg while the re remainder 1 i is gauge gaug and under The Harriman lines linen 1111 11 will Hill open vast 1 I timber and mineral lands ands not heretofore p accessible The TIle Umber timber Um r lands are declared de declared by experts and disinterested ob oh observers oho o servers to be rich with many Kinds of timber that ar are elsewhere becoming t scarce 1 t and the mineral lands to te be well weft favored favor with deposits depo tUl of copper gold geld zinc toe lead and silver sliver The territory g south of the Taqui Yaqui river ta Is t a tine line agricultural a ral territory and produces produce mO earlier all the fruits produced In n California and in Florida