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Show H j Lino to Bo Built From Salt Lake l i City Through Mining H; District. V CONSTRUCTION WORK TO i BE STARTED VERY SOON I! C. Wi Scofield and French Capi- ; lalists at the Back of Hi Enterprise. HI' At last tho Utah & Nevada railroad, B; Iho long-proposed lin0 from c',y H to VAy. Nov., in to hi; an actuality. The :' Tribune was reliably informed Snlur- r dav that active work ou 1he eonstruc- Hj tion of the road would bo begun in the r near future. At the back ol tho proi- ret which has been promoted since the l (ii'itumn of JflOG by C. W. Scofield of l cw York, the dauntless promoter of I railroad enterprises in this and neigh-1 H: boring states, are French capitalists. representatives of whom wore out. here last spring for the purpose of going ; over the proposition. Plans and speci- fications for the new road arc now be-. be-. hip figured on, and all that remains to bo done before active work is com-menccd com-menccd is the signing: of some nripcrs. As was announced in Tho Tribune l last summor, the company whicli will j' build the roal was incorporated on Hl1 June 1". at Dover. Dol. The name of H. the conipanv is tho Utah & Nevada li "Railroad eompnnv, and is capitalized H at the modest sum of $200,000. While there was nothing in the articles of K incorporation which would indicate the j "xact seeno of the company's netivi- Hir lies, The Tribune expressed tho belief H! nt the time that it vas identical with . he project with which Mr. Scofield j t-as connected. This has since provou H'. true. The incorporators were John C. 1: Stirling and Harold G. Fritz, both of HI'. New York City, and I. W. Ayers of Hj , Oakland, Cal. i Been Talked of Long. H! The proposition of building a rail- road from Salt Lake City through the l)eep Crock mining district to Bly, al-most al-most .'100 miles away, has been I allied H of for almost twenty years past, and Hl inanv of those who first agitated (he matter have passed away. Routes have j boon surveyed and promoting parties )" and engineers havo traveled over tho Hi; eountrv over -which it was proposed to ' build the line. They returned with on- Bj thusiastic reports, but "nothing definite H' .vas ever accomplished. Hh The greatest impetus toward tho Hif. building of the proposed line wis ox- Hj . perienced -when Mr. Scofield took tho . lead in promoting the road in the fall of 1906. He had the route mapped out anew, got eastern capital interested in the matter and, on October 30, 1006, it wns-announccd that local men liad taken an interest, had subscribed to the capital stock a large amount, and that tho road would positively be built. The Hj local subscribers at the time -were M. H 31. Walker, B. F. Bauer, W. Ar. Iticc, .1. A. Cunningham, ,T. D. Wood. J. P. Gardner, F. M. Foofe, O. J I'. Dooliltle and M. A. Doughty. None of these " men is now interested in the proposi- (ion, however. The articles of incorporation wero made out read- for filing, and cvery-thing cvery-thing seemed as if the road would soon lio built.- Mr. Scofield then left foi tho east to closo negotiations for the financing of tho pro.iect with Hie cast-, cast-, ern capitalists. Nothing was heard i from him for some weeks, but finally J came some bad news. The eastern capi- HJ ial proosition had fallen through, but j Mr. Scolield sent word that ho expeot- i ed to get money elsewhere. He next H; looked to. England for finances for the H project, but; failed there, and foi ) months nothing was heard from him. Hr Trios Luck in France. H'j The next time ho was heard of he H1' had goue to France, and there he was ' successful, his labors resulting in ! I'ench surveyors coining to this city last spring with Mr. Scofiebl and go- j1 ing over the ground. Everything ' proved satisfactory, and M:r. Scofield , left again for the cast. Tho next thing : heard of the proposition was the in- Hi corporation of tlie Utah & Novadti HH i lailr6ad company at Dover, Del., last HH j June. j The Salt Lake men who subscribed HH 10 tho proposition in 190G were asked HH! to lend their aid again, it is said, bur, HH ' some bitch came along, which was not HH ( made public, resulting in their with- HH ; ilrawal from the project entirely. HH i It is understood that the routo which HHIl was favored in JflOC, namely, that HHii. through' the Deep Creek mining dis- HJ ) trict. is the one which is most fa- HH ' vored nor,-. Tho road will be, easy to HH construct and will, when built, tap HH Pleasant valley. 'Spring; valley and HH Snake valloy. all of which are known HH to be vei'3' rich in minerals. About the Santa Fe. It was recent!' rumored that the HH Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fo. railroad HH is intending to enter this city via the HH Doop Creek mining district; but wheth- HH er or not tho two projects havo any HH connection is not known. Tt is (rue HH that a line is now being built to Ely HH from Tonopah, flic present northern HH terminus of the Tonopah & Tidowater HH railroad, whicli is said to be owned HH largely by the Santa Fe, and it is ru- HH jnored that the Tonopah & Tidewater HH is tho power at the back of it. HHj j. A5 Ely this road would connect with HH t tho Ncvailxi Northern, which is Gug- HHj ; fCOiiboiin" property. Of course, it is not HHj ' impossible that the Santa F" may run HHj its trains over this line, which con- HHj nects with the Southern Pacific at HHJ C'ob'ro, Nov., and on into th'm city, but HHJ r, aiiich shorter route Avould bo:' tliat HHJ rh'.-ough tho Deep Creek mining dis- HHJ - HHJ i Tt matters not, howover, whether or HHJ not there is any connection between HHJ li.i; Sccr5J7prfa prajoct auil the oxtcn-HHJ oxtcn-HHJ Mon o the Tonopah & Tjdewa1or line, Hi l but apparently there is not. The big HHJ j thing is io get the line from Ely to HHji this city. Tt .will bo a great thing for HHJ Salt Luke and I'iuh. It will enable HH tho shipment of Nevada ores ifitu this HHjl F.talc for smelting and refinomiiiit, thus HH l bringing closer the time when Ziou will HH ', not only be a great commercial center, HHJi I " as" 11 K10;t manufacturing center. HH L Fine Hmoltcrs some of the best in the HHJI B world are now being built in this HHJI I , ntale, ami the shipment of Nevada ores HHJ' linro will (end to increase this vnlu- HHJ I able industry. |
