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Show GOSH VALLEY GO. ! LIE IS UWDER mi Grading Is Begun on Railroad Rail-road to Tintic Standard and Iron King. I i ! When the Goshen Valley railroad com- j pany, two weeks go. made the announce- I ment, through Captain E. J. Raddatz, I president and general manager, that the projected railroad from n point on the Denver &. Rio Grnndo to the Tintic Stand- j ard and Iron King mines would be started within twenty days, some surprise was 1 expressed, although no one questioned the standing or ability of the men behind the enterprise. The Coshen Valley company awarded the grading contract to the Utah Construction company and the latter organization or-ganization moved a force of me n and ; teams cn the ground Friday and yester- j day began active grading operations, as j , was learned yesterday from both officials j j of the railroad and the construction com- ' I The grading was started about two miles out of Eluerta on the D. & R. -G. road, and is being continued directly toward I the Tintic Standard mine, a distance of about six miles. Nenrly a score of team.-? are already at work, and it was officially offi-cially stated yesteruay that two steam j shovels had been sent down arid would be placed in commission by tomorrow. ! It was nlpo announced that the general force employed would be added 10 from ; time to time, it being the desire of the j contracting company to complete the work j of grading within ninety days. On the main line of this new railroad, at 1 a point most convenient to reach the Iron King mine, some two miles distant, : a spur will be run to top that property. The main line, spur and the necessary switches will bring the total length of the line up to approximately ten miles. The cost of the Goshen Valley line will be about "00,000. The project is fully financed and there is held to be no reasonable rea-sonable doubt but that the railroad wilj be in commission within six months. Since the building of this railroad has been assured the mine operators in the entire section of that part of Tntic tributary trib-utary have taken on a far more optimistic optimis-tic view of the immediate future. In addition to the Tintic Slandard, tbe chief producer of this part of Tintic, there are at least six or eight properties neai to the producing stage that their status as having passed beyond the "prospect" seems assured. The railroad will not only cut down the transportation charges for the output of ore, but will likewise reduce the cost of gettimr supplies and mine material to the various properties, and should in the course of ti few months of active operation opera-tion prove its' earning power, not only for the Tintic Standard, but as a purveyor to the needs of the trihutary district. - |