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Show UTAH COPPER FORCED TO BUILD RAILROAD When th run Coppar nnnouncaa Ha tnwnllon of building: Its own railroad Mn from IhV Blnchaai rnln to It mill, om. aurpris. waa .apfassd that th. cofflpiny would o to th. msmim of constructing and .quipping a II n whlrh Is .stiniatnl to hav. cost I2.SM.0O. This lln. will b. rompletfl and ofwratlng; th. latt.r part of n.xl mon I li, and In oompany oom-pany la assurad of making a rt aav-Ing aav-Ing In th. hauling ot Its on At th tlm. It wa. innousMd that Utah Coppar would build Ita lln It wa understood that It waa forrsd to oparat a ratlraul Istvwn th. mln. and mill b-raus. b-raus. of th. Inability of th. Rio Orand. to mak. d.llv.rl of or. In . amount tttoded to kHp til. mill plant' oii.ra.tlng at r parity. Th. N.ws Bureau glvM th. follnwlng account of why th road waa built: 'Juat Ilk. GMrt Oould.' was th. strNt's comm.nt wn.n It heard that th. head of th. Oould proper! le. had sud-tf.nly sud-tf.nly gon. off to Kuropc. leaving; Hpy.r at Co., to work out th. Ooukl rallnd muddl. aa beat It could. It la recalled that when th. ITtah Copper company 1 found that Ihe Gould ' road. th. Rio Grand Western, couldn't handl. th. 10.0M tons of or. a day. laacXelll and Jaikllng met Gerg Gould In Halt Las. City and aakd him If thev could not b. provided wllh adequate freight farllltlea Ooutd said he would fix It up when h. rt hark to Now York, and they mad. an appointment to meet him that. When they reached New York they war. surprised sur-prised to And at th. aHaaourl Pacific offl.-e. that Gould had gon away on a holiday and that noliody knew anything about the l'tah proposition. 80 MacN.lll and Jackllng decided to build a road of their own. Th.y floated a bond laau. of I2.M0.SM and built th. Bingham a Garfield Gar-field railway. Th Rio Oranda Weal.rn tost th. traffic." |