Show mom IRON CITY TO FAIRVIEW alie people donating tracts of land A RAILROAD project is on foot which if consummated will bring southern utah prominently to the froat the road ig to leave los angeles california and rim direct to pioche nevada thence to hebron utah phonco to iron city cedar city beaver covo creek marksville marysville Marys ville joseph city elsinore glenwood richfield Eich field burrville Burr ville prattville salina gunnison fayette manti ephraim chester moroni mount pleasant fairview thence to connect with the D K G western about twenty five miles from latter place speaking of the project the los angeles times bays it is believed by several influential members of the chamber that thero will bo no difficulty in raising in los angeles to assist in building tho road and the chamber of commerce will appoint a committee to go over the proposed route and solicit subscriptions of the people along the line every property owner will be given a chanco to contribute his share toward the building of a road that will be of untold benefit to the entire southern coast the gentlemen who are to make thid trip will leave loa angeles will teams and will spend about three months on the road they will be selected by the chamber and will work under the instructions of thai body and will keep in constant corn muni cation with the executive committee of the chamber alluding to the boheme a prominent southern utah man says should a company determine to build through this section some of the towns have offered to donate rail road depot grounds and I 1 am confident that all others would do the same I 1 believe by some one properly canvassing ohp country through that half of the grading would be done if not by donation by paying half money and half capital stock on this coutou railroad would be enabled to supply california commodities to more people than nevada contains besides obtaining all the back freight that salt lake city could supply with better coal at half the price withie miles of los ankeles An yeles COLONEL D C general manager of the D R G W the western will surely bo broad gauged this year and ho may nel wait for the D ak G or midland to reach grand junction yiu the grand valley before making tho change in that case transfers will be made from the narrow gauge at grand junction with such arrangements with the central pacific that sleepers may run between grand junction and sau francisco the change of gauge will be gradual athe first consignment consign men of the new steel rails has just reached soldier summit and the idea is to put down the steal outside of the present rails as fast as the eight foot bics tics aro laid thoa wien the standard gauge is ready the narrow gauge rails will be taken up between salt lake and ogden all that is necessary is to a line of raila to one side A third rail is to bo maintained between bingham junction and salt laef city as the narrow gauge continues to wasatch and bingham Eing ham there ib no new rolling stock ordered but that can be done at any time and when the reporter asked if the baldwin works would build their lococo nivea col dodge replied with a smile that there were other builders in the country fully as good as burnham parry william he had watched with interest the recent per firmance for mance of the A G darwin strong locomotive which recently ran miles on the erie without boating a bearing but preferred to let other folks make experiments with new or comparatively untried ma chines at the same time he believed it was better for an engine to make long runs as thereby they berc cooled off the less and the more frequent the changes of cooling and heating the worse it was fora boiler no movement hag been mado below iliffe as yet by tho D E G graders and their movements ent uncertain As for building west if some mining mau of national rep could be sent out to examine the deep creek country and make a favorable report his road would have no difficulty in securing means to build west the colonel lias the firmest faith that the great northwest io the country to ruu a road to he would take oregon aa against all southern california colonel will be in utah several days the new coke ovens down near castle gate coming in for a good charo of his attention he says thirty ovens have beba ordered and has reason to feel that a good article of coke can be made there TUB denver rio grande western ig rapidly making preparations to widen the gauge of its line from salt lake to grand junction says tho denver at the office of colonel dodge yesterday it was seated that tho rails on its first order of tons fur this purpose were arriving d are being put down in many places A third rail will bo put down a present but when the work is finished this will be takes up leaving tao road standard giago only it about tons of sixty bound steel rails to complete the work mr didgo stated that he expected the midland and rio grande would both complete their broad gauge lines to grand junction very shortly but as they are delaying things so much the diio grande western decide to go ahead any way and they expect to have the work completed by fall the rio grande will undoubtedly put down a third rail from canyon city to glenwood and from there the new track to new castle ia ready for a third rail at any time if the now road is built from new castle to grand junction by the denver colorado canyon and pacific company it will probably bo used jointly by the midland and rio grande to enalla them to connect with the rio grande western THE grande junction news says A missouri pacific agent stated to some of our citizens recently that his road had been promised over the midland to this point by the first of october or november we are inclined to believe that he spoke tho truth it also says A gentleman who just arrived from fealt lake states upon good railroad authority that the denver rio grande P n build into grand junction if it ca secure the track now used by th ver rio grande colonel didgo here in a few days to 1001 ne matter over it is said that the denver rio grande western people are getting tired of monkey work and propose to do something THE denver rio grande western an enterprise of peculiar interest to this city is preparing for a change from the narrow to the standard gauge for thia purpose there will abon be listed in new york an issue of new dirats of not less than and not exceeding and of the preferred stock is to go to the holders of the present bonds as compensation for their reduced interests preferred stock shall bo kept in the treasury success to the western it is growing with the country denver beius are looked for any dav for tho denver rio grando to widen their track to the standard guage and it is expected that this will occur shortly calida salida mail IT is asserted by those in authority that the colorado midland and D R G will ube the same track down the grand to grand junction |