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Show GOLD BELTAND SOUND. The Boute for this New Idaho Road ' ii Located and Surveyed to , Jnnotion Ear. A. 00UHTET EIOH IN LUMBER. Ihe Chief Engineer Says it is a Wonder M Easy Grade Railroad Mews of ; ; General Interest Notes. J : Major Wilkes chief j engineer of the party whioh had been engaged in surveying sur-veying a route for . the Hailey, Gold Belt & Puget Sound railway,' in an interview, in-terview, in the Wood River Miner, states that the line was ' surveyed from the Trail creek divide, at the head of Little Smoky, to Junction Bar. It is an ex-traordinarily ex-traordinarily favorable route for a mountain oountry, the grade scarcely averaging 1 per cent for the thirty-nine miles of the route. It is a water route all the way from the divide, down Little and Big Smoky and the South Boise to Junction Bar. When opened the region is going to be one of the very finest mining districts dis-tricts in Idaho. Major Wilkes says he was not prospecting at all, as he was anxious to get through before snow flies; but that, as an old miner, he saw much to interest him. The route is unsurpassed for pano-amlc pano-amlc grandeur, and only seven miles down Little Smoky there are 78 springs whose waters have a temperature ranging rang-ing from 110 to 190 degrees, Major Wilkes says that he believes these springs to be so greatly superior to those of Manitou or any other of the favorite resorts of that class that . none of them compare with the Smoky Hot Springs. The quantity of fine flooring and other choice lumber that can be produced produ-ced in that country is so groat that neither Idaho, Utah nor Wyoming need look elsewhere. The timber Is as fine yellow pine and white fir as Major Wilkes ever saw, and 50 odd trees which he measured averaged over five feet in diameter' and stood up 64 to 00 feet without a limb. The lumbering business alone, Major Wilkes says, will pay for the construction and operation of the road to say nothing of the mining min-ing and agricultural interests that will be tributary to it, - - About the agricultural possibilities depending somewhat upon, or likely to induce the construction of, the road. Major Wilkes could not yet speak very Eositively. But this much he knew, owever; that of the extent of Camas prairie, at least ten miles wide by thirty, long can be Irrigated. That makes 800 square miles of agriculturrl land, which is a deep, black loam as tine as the very best Utah land. Major Wilkes returned to his camp to hasten the work on the "near" end of the route; that is to say, on that part of it from Trail creek to Hailcy. He will endeavor to have it completed by November 1st. Evanston Wants a New Road, ' It looks very like a plain business proposition, says an Evanston, Wyo., exchange, that the construction of the Evanston & Salt Lake road would be of more benefit to us than to anybody else. It would give iis an outlet for our millions of tons of coal that will lie uncovered un-covered so long as we have but pne road, and that road, unwilling to haul any fuel produot but its own to market. mar-ket. The new coal mine just opening at Millis is another evidence that this whole section is underlaid with this standard fuel in an almost Inexhaustible Inexhaust-ible supply. If we are willing to assist in getting a market for the product which has been laid' at our door with such lavish hand, we will see our labors rewarded with a business growth that will be the wonder of our later days. There is no excuse for such dilatory proceedings as have been going on for the past year. There needs only harmony har-mony of action and the end will be easily attained. The business men of Suit Lake are ready to do thoir part in opening a new thoroughfare for their fuel supply and a now outlet for thoir wholesale products. Railroad Notes. , The new addition to the Atlantic & Pacific shops In Albuquerque is about completed, com-pleted, giving a few more much nejded engine stalls. The general ticket office of the Rio Grnnds Western ra'.lroad has a new ornament In a model of engine No. 4Jts. II was made by a Denver machinist, and is ready for steam. : Tho August statement of the Santa Fe system, including the St. Louis and San Francisco systems, show gross earnings, 13,-8!S,HW; 13,-8!S,HW; Increase, t0,456; net, Sl.lN.TUU; increase, in-crease, tW,3W. .New rails for about fifty miles of track are being taken west for the Atlantic & Pacitlc. The puiposeol the management Is to thoroughly repair the road with both new ties and new rails. ... The officers of the Salt Lake, Wyoming Wyom-ing & California railroad are. said to have obtained ob-tained from the county court of Tooele county a right of way over certain surreys which the Deep Creek projector.! intended to occupy. An Atlantic & Pacific - employe says that this company could use Bfteen e :tra engines en-gines at present. The traffic is so great that much of the freight has to be sent to Deming by the Santa Fe, and transferred to the Southern South-ern Pacific. ! The demand lor freight cars is so great throughout the country that the car shops can not build them fast . enough Every car building factory In the country Is running night and day, still the number of new oars turuned out does cot appear to till up the great ttP- - |