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Show TO RUSH CUPICTIOS OF Hill RAILROAD Expect to Have Project Finished Within Next Thirty Days. With the delivery of the ts and rails to Viali:h, the terminus of the Rait Liike & Alia railroad, that lends to the Little Cottonwood mining district, XV. K. Vornton, pen em I manager of the Little Cottonwood Transportation company, an-nouncftd an-nouncftd yi-sterday that the now railroad into tho district would lie rushed ahead and that he expects to h;,vc. It practU-:illy -omplolfMl wit uln thf; next thirty day. This will Holvu the I ranaportation prolixin. proli-xin. It is understood. General Manner Yornton said, In discussing dis-cussing tho jrujiM.-t, tliat all material has l)r( n ordered. Thmn have been delivered at Wasatoh rails and tls flnougli to corn-lct corn-lct four miles of lh" railroad. It is understood that Hie renifilnder of the rails and ties for the completion of the additional addi-tional four miles of railroad will bu delivered de-livered In time, and the locomotives are now said to le on the way to VVasab h. The work of laying the ties and rails Is lo be started Immediately. The grading has been completed. According to many of the operators In the district, the completion com-pletion of the railroad will make possible the shipping of a much lower grade of ore from the various mines of the district. They point out that the question of tr;i nsportatlon has been one of the fea-tureH fea-tureH that has prevented the various companies com-panies operating in tho district from developing de-veloping their properties as vigorously as they wished. Mining operations have In ! the post been confined to the development of high-grade ores, as it was only that, class of material that could be mined and shipped at a profit. The operators were always hampered In securing the necessary neces-sary teams to haul t lie ore. With the transportation question solved, ft Is predicted pre-dicted by many of the operators that t hero will bo a decided Increase fn the mining activity In the district ami that a much larger tonnage of ore will be sent out. |