| Show A MINERS SCHEME to parallel baab county with a beil road to the nevada line A miner submits the following to the eureka chief utah with her present prosperity and great mineral resources affords a good field for railroad enterprise and many are the individual and corporate schemes addan ced having always an object in view and after having per aced the provo city railway companas comp anys scheme of connecting provo with the gintic tintic mines across utah lake on a flat boat in summer and by one of phineas foggs wind boats across the ice in winter we arrive at the conclusion that it would not be unreasonable that a miner who has many i ears of his lifetime prospecting between the nevada line on the west and the colorado line on the east should not also haye a scheme and it ia this to wit starting to connect the rio grand western at spanish fork through payson to eureka and the gintic tintic mines distant 30 miles thence west 24 miles to west gintic tintic mining district with very good grade thence westerly about 35 miles very little grade to drum district the to fish springs 35 miles thence westerly 18 miles to clifton mining district with good grade for roadbed thence west 15 miles to peep creek linins district at present cited as an object point for railroad enterprise the camps referred to do not embrace oasis district and other places in close proximity where mineral is found along the proposed line we read of salt lakes great scheme for a railroad direct to deep creek and the only advantages assigned dortho enterprise ia that it will enhance the value of real estate in that city now the schema which will give to salt lake shelters smelters sm elters and reduction works a chance to compete with colorado without placing the producer at th mercy of one or the other and will apen a vast mining region the t lake scheme cannot possibly and with little if any greater cast for construction another strong argument for the enterprise ter prise is that it has been demon I 1 the year last passed that the salt lake western railroad is unable to handle the increasing business of that great mining district of gintic tintic and tha great cry from all mine owners and business men of that section has been give us more railroads and this is but one of the destined great mining camps mentioned in connection with the scheme and only kept from coming to the front as producers by the want of transportation and too we need fuel the scarcity of limber in this section will soon be belr gintic tintic Tin tic atone time the best supplied of all the points mentioned draws largely for her supplies at present from aock springs and pleasant valley in our ande we have not a chamber of commerce to report favorably our scheme or to incorporate a company to carry it to a successful real but we have the mines and as a certain railroad official once said to me id have one good mining camp like gintic tintic or park city than to have all the farming country in utah toi profit to a company |
