Show RAILROAD TO DEEP CREEK french banking syndicate may construct line west from garfield the last issue of the mining review con contained bained an article entitled A trip into the deep creek country from the pen of H W mcfarren in which it was stated that a railroad into this region was a possibility lity of the near future and that experts had expressed the opinion that the ore tonnage from the mines of the district would be large since the publication of the article in question the railroad question has assumed more definite form and the tribune of the dinst in a special from new york gave out the following A representative of a french banking syndicate which syndicate has underwrite ten the bonds of the utah and nevada rail way will run west from salt lake city arrived here from paris today he is accompanied by a prominent german engineer who has been over the ground and upon whose report the investment is being made the utah and nevada railway is an incorporation organized by new yorkers capitalized for five milion allion dollars and was incorporated under the laws of new jersey in may of this year at the offices of the company broadway no other information than this would be given out in commenting on the special the tribune said the above special will be of unusual interest not only to salt lakers but to all utahna and particularly so to a section of country in tooele thoele juab and millard counties where for many many years the prospectors pec tors the miners and the mine owners have hoped and almost prayed for a rail way over which the enormous ton tonnage nage from this great mineral region might be moved this dispatch would ind cate that something tangible has at last been reached in fact the tribune firmly believes that the road will be constructed and that it will be built and in running order within eighteen months and it may be within a year investigations made in dugway and deep creek demonstrate that today with railroad facilities there would be a movement of tons of ore per day and that with a freight rate of from 4 to 7 per ton there would be a tonnage of over ten thousand tons per day at the end of a year approximately the date when it Js is intended to complete the road experts go over road early in february last a party of six capitalists from france came to salt lake there was no blare of trumpets to announce their arrival in fact they kept their movements as quiet as possible in the party was a german engineer two autos waited for them one morning a short distance from garfield when the party entered the machines it was for a three weeks tour and i when they returned to the starting point they had been absent three weeks to a day ostensibly bly they were looking over mining properties with a view to purchase in reality they were going over the route or rather a preliminary route over which a railroad might be built the route traversed was from garfield to grantsville Grants ville thence south and west to a point directly north of bullionville Bulli onville fifty miles to the south which carried them around the southeast end of the great salt lake desert from this point they swung to the north and west crossing the southern and southwestern part of the desert to wilson springs and then down deep creek valley to gandy a distance of miles all of the route is within the state of utah railroad company incorporated with the information obtained upon the trip when the party returned to new york the utah and nevada railway company was organized and incorporated under the laws of now new jersey then these capitalists sailed for france meanwhile a corps of surveyors ran the preliminary survey over the route which the party had traversed in february when the subject was unfolded in paris and presented to french financiers with the facts and figures obtained by the experts who had aad gone ov over er the route of the proposed road it was an easy matter to secure the necessary y funds from the enormous tonnage which would come at once to the road a comparison was made with the tonopah mining companas comp anys road from mina to tonopah To a distance of six saty tyone ty one miles which paid for itself twice in one year it should be understood that this railroad is to be bd a mining road pure and simple it will not be constructed for a speed road nor will it cater to passenger traffic the mining interests alone will be looked after and whatever passenger traffic there might be will be handled upon an exclusively mixed train proposition the eastern terminal of the road will be at garfield and the intention also is to reach the new independent smelter at tooele thoele as well as the big smelting smelling sm elting plant at garfield when the road is completed it is likewise probable that the road will get in touch with ely through a traffic agreement with the nevada northern running south to ely from the southern pacific at cobre the fish creek and the dugway country will also be tapped by the new road while the route of the proposed road could be shortened some by taking another course than the one which has been practically adopted the I 1 latter atter is on easy grade which is absolutely necessary for a freight road chief engineer coming the chief engineer will arrive here within the next thirty days and soon after his arrival construction on the road is to begin the building of this road means much for salt lake A vast country already tributary but which is so difficult to reach will become a patron of salt lake it is understood that the western pacific now has a corps of surveyors at work between wendover and gold hill where the macvichie property the western utah copper company is located but there cannot be too many railroads in this country there ia room for more the deep creek region is to be congratulated upon what is now the first real tangible proposition for a railway to their locality |