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Show CASTLE VALLEY ROAD. The Line Will Parallel the San Ban Pete Valley Eoad Through Salt ' Creek Canyon TO TKAVEBSE A BIOH GOUNTBY. President Driggs Tells Some of the Ee-Bouroes Ee-Bouroes of the Country Along the Proposed Line, . , ' : ; B, W. Driggs, of Salt Lake, was in Nephi on Saturday last and mado a trip to San Pete, in the interests of the proposed Castle Valley railroad. In an interview with a Nephi Ensign, reporter, re-porter, Mr. Driggs said: ; "We propose running our line parallel paral-lel with the San Pete valley line, if we can get a right of way through Salt Creek canyon. . We will want, about a block of land in Nephi for depot purposes. pur-poses. ' Work will commence right away. We want to be hauling coal into Salt Lake City not later than the first of next March. " "The syndicate we have formed," continued Mr. Driggs, "has just concluded con-cluded a deal with the Busby Mining company by which we purchase their entire capital stock of 3500,000, so that sura, borax, alum, sulphur, sandstone lithographio stone and iron, all in t. dius of a few miles, and last but Dot least in mineral resources, is gold and silver mines being opened up., The contemplated railroad will aso tap one of the largest timber belts in Utah, extending for fifty miles, from San Pete range along the San Rafael and vicinity. Some fifteen saw millj are now just on the edge of this exten. give timber belt, and have to haul their lumber by teams twenty-tive miles; our road will reduce it to begin with, so that it can be delivered to the cars in about five miles' haul by team. The road located to run from some Eoint in Castle valley on the line of the lenver & Rio- Grande through the set. tlement of Castle valley, via our coal fields and on over the range into San Pete through Juab to tap the irop com. try and connect the coal and iron thence on the west side of Utah lake and Jordon to Salt Lake City, and , branch into southern Utah with a view to eventually opening a way for a mar. ket of these extensive coal regions t0 California. The road will run "through one of the largest stock ranges in Utah and open up agricultural resources that now lie dormant. Twenty miles of the forty required to be built has already been graded and i( ready for the tie, while the balance of the line is over a comparatively level country and can be built very cheaply, Engineers are now looking up the po sibMity of coming through Cottonwood canyon into San Pete, thence down Salt Creek canyon to Nephi, thence northerly to Tintic iron district, so as to bring together the extensive coal of Castle valley and iron of Tintic. Tha road will then broneh northerly u Salt Lake City. An iron syndicate manufactory of Pittsburg is ready to put up large iron works if this road ij. bttilt." Mr. Driggs will go east in a couple ol weeks to secure the necessary eapitnl to build the line. The total length of the Castle valley line when completed will ' be 150 miles. we now have under our control one o the largest and best deposits of coal in the United States, a twelve-foot vein of bituminous cannel coal, resembling Australian shale now imported to the gas works at $120 a ton, a whole mountain moun-tain of soft coal, pronounced by. exports ex-ports to be the be it coking coal in Utah, and a superior blacksmith coal, and necessarily a good coal for stoves and engines. We have also secured vast deposits of mineral wax, asphaltum and kindred substances containing a fine quality of parafine and ozokerite. These substances sub-stances are used in so many ways they are as staple as coal. Besides these there are beds of cement, silica, gyp- |