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Show THE K0A1) ASSUKED. THE RIO GRANDE WESTERN TO BUILD TO DEEP CREEK. The Oniciahi or That Koad Have AtkeJ for a Confrreiue With the Miner to Take l in e Karly in Januiiry. The Timks Is rcliaMy informed this morn. Inj? by one ji;h lu uulhority that the Deep Creek roud is an assured fact. Tue Times'. informant is a uiuu cartful in tiis talk and knows whereof ho speaks. Ho says: 'If the Villon PaciUe does not start their line ny the first of April the Kio Graude Western will then start work at once. It has ouiy been a question of money with the Eio Grande all along, as they cure been more or less tied up by '.he work that has been done before. "To show you how much in earnest they are I can state positively that the enfriteers are now camped at Dugby and are cross-sec-tioniug their work so as to be able to put the graders to work at a moment's notice. Their purpose is to extend their rond from Eureka to Dugway, a distance of about scv-euty-llve miles in a straight line, and thence around Dugway to Deep Creek. This road is surveyed within half a mile of the Union Pacific road and Is projected in almost a straight line. President Palmer, Vice-President Peabody and General Manager Dodge of the Kio Grande Western will be in Salt Lake early iu January and It is understood that they have asked for a conference w .th a number of tho leading miners of the Dugway district, and if things turn out as expected they will probably prob-ably get to work on this road at once. The Rio Grande Western men are pretty enterprising enter-prising and when they start in will not allow the grass to grow under their feet in this matter. There are very few people who understand under-stand the good that will accrue to Salt Lake from this road when it is built. In the first place I do not hesitate to say that it is ouo of the richest mining districts iu the world, and with twelve months' development develop-ment the Dugway mines will yield far more ore than Tiutie or any other camp in the country. Then, too, the ore specimens from there are the richest I have ever seen. This wonderfully rich country is controlled in a great measure by people who are interested in Salt Luke City, and the, out nut will come straight to our market. When this road isjbuilt it will be to Salt Lake what the Denver it bouth Park rond has been to Denver, yielding an immense revenue and opening up one of the grandest mining districts dis-tricts in tho world." "Well, how about the Union Pacific? Can it allow the Rio Grande Western to walk I Into its territory ia this way?" "Oil, thut remains to be seen. My idea is that it cannot, but whether it will or not is a thinjr for the future to decide. My personal opinion is thut both roads w ill eventually build to Deep Creek and that there will be business to justify it. At any rate I think from the present outlook that the road to Deep Creek is assured over the Rio Grande Western route, and one road will do more for Salt Lake than any man in the city has an adequate conception of." As a further proof of the story told The Times as above, a rock contractor on the D. & R. G. W. extension to Tiutie stated this morning that he finished his contract ten days airo and was preparing to remove his outfit to Colorado, when he was requested by the olticials of the road to keep it here and remain himself as they would probably give him another contract within tho next four months (which would bo in April), lie says that this contract will be to build west, which is the junction of the road projected for Eureka. The contractor is assured tliat this road will be building within six months. This rather unexpected confirmation puts even a brighter light upon the new road's pr --poets aud promises great things for the near future. |