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Show TO RUSH BUILDING OF ALTA RAILROAD Will Select Construction Camp Site Today and Start Work Tuesday. A arew of laborers will be taken to Wasatch, the terminal point of the Salt Lake & Alta railroad, today,, and the construction camp of the proposed Alta Cottonwood Railway company selected, According to W. K. Yorston, president and general manager of the new company. com-pany. Mr. Worston will be accompanied accompa-nied by H. B. Cole and W. H. Burn-Hides, Burn-Hides, incorporators of the new company. com-pany. In discussing the proposed road, Mr. Vorston said yesterday: The company has been organized organ-ized and the articles of incorporation incorpora-tion filed. There are 100,000 shares, the par value of each share being $1, and $16,000 has been subscribed. sub-scribed. The actual construction work wiH be started Tuesday. We have secured a ten year's bond and lease on the Alta "Jordan Valley railroad right of way. TMb gives us a strip of land 200 feet in width and of sufficient length to reach the heart of the Little Cottonwood district. Some changes are to be made in ' th e presen t grad e , after which we propose to build the lino from the terminus "of the Salt Lake & Alta railway to near the portal of the Columbus Extension tunnel. From that point branch lines will reach the principal mines in the district. The equipment for the road, which is to be a cog road, a owned by the company, and we will be equipped to handle 1000 tons of ore per day. Under the present plan the road may be closed during the slide season sea-son for about six weeks during the year. Tn case a slide carries out any portion of it, it can be readily replaced without any serious loss of time. During the remainder of the year the road will be kept open with rotary snow plows. The cog road will operate from Tanner's Flat on up to the portal of the Columbus Extension tunnel. We have taken into consideration considera-tion the heavy Bnowfall in the district dis-trict and plan on erecting about 4500 feet of snow sheds. The road is to be rushed to completion as rapidly as possible, in order to bo able to handle the constantly increasing in-creasing tonnage that is being mined and shipped from the district dis-trict The freight charge will be $1 per ton, which will permit all of the lower grade ores, which at present cannot be shipped, to be sent out at a profit. |