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Show Industries and Progress RAILROAD TO WASATCH. Inside of sixty days trains will be running and carrying passengers pass-engers between Bingham Junction and Wasatch, in the mouth of Little Cottonwood canyon and, if the shippers of Alta arc ready to resume the marketing of ore, freight trains will be landing the product of the Alta mines at the sampling mills at Sandy at the same time. From Bingham Junction to Wasatch, the cosy summer resort in the mouth of the canyon, is ten miles. From Sandy the distance is eight and one-half miles. The Bingham Junction terminal will be used for passengers only, and nothing but freight will be handled between be-tween Sandy and Wasatch. There is more than ordinary significance in this piece of news. It means, above everything else, that the camp of Alta is soon to have cheap transportation rates on ores down the canyon, and modest freight rates on all classes of merchandise into camp. It means that patrons of the summer resort will soon be able to board a Rio Grande train in this city and reach Wasatch within an hour. It means also that the magnificent granite quarries that supplied sup-plied the stone for the great Mormon temple can be operated to advantage, ad-vantage, with every reason to believe that when the new buildings on which the Church expects to spend in the neighborhood of $500,000, and which will go up on the old Descret News corner, arc constructed, this stone will be used. As much of this is planned for this season, it is likely that these quarries will be working a large force of men before be-fore long. Murray Eagle. SALINA BOOMING. At last Sevier valley is to become noted, perhaps famous. An expert ex-pert has recently visited the county and looked at the gypsum deposits. depos-its. He says they are the greatest he has seen, and he has seen a good many. In his opinion there is enough gypsum in this valley to supply the world for a century. So his conclusions arc that Sevier county will be one of the world's greatest plaster of paris producers. This and other things he said through last week's Reaper. That's great for the county, and Salina is sure to reap great benefits from this new enterprise. Since the above was put in type wc have interviewed one of the directors of the National Gypsum Company of Salt Lake and learned that work will commence on the mill and railroad spur within ' a very few weeks and it i"ill be rushed to completion. The plant will be just south of Salina, and this town will naturally be the company's com-pany's business center. The mill will have a capacity of 100 tons per day. The company's expert is now returning from the East where he has ordered the machinery and perfected building plans, etc. Salina's future is now assured. This enterprise may double her population within two years. Salina Call. FEDERAL BUILDING AT PROVO. Work is to be started on the Federal building which is to be built on Academy avenue and Center street, in the very near future. This is the glad news that has been received in this city from Senator Smoot who is now in Washington. He assures us that the roof will be on the building by fall, and when the building is completed it will be a credit to the city. Provo Democrat. LUCIN CUTOFF REPAIRS. A large number of men and two trains are at work on the west end of the Ogden-Lucin cutoff, filling in the portions of the trackbed washed out by the waves during the recent storm. Many heavy rocks arc being used in the work, and when completed it will be safer and more durable than before. In the meantime the work of putting in a long breakwater is progressing, and the result of the experiment will be watched with keen interest by all railroad men. Ogdcn Standard. GOOD ROADS IN SANPETE. A great deal of work is being done at the present time on the road leading from Mt. Pleasant up North Creek canyon to the toll road running to the Sanpete Valley Coal Company's mine. A half dozen or more men with a number of teams am at work there regularly, regu-larly, in the employ of the county, and probably as many more of those who own farms in the neighborhood arc assisting without remuneration. re-muneration. Mt. Pleasant Pyramid. NEW COAL COMPANY. The Metcalf Coal Company was incorporated th's week with a capital stock of $100,000 in one dollar shares, taking ovjr 463 acres of coal land in the Scofield district, within one mile of the D. & R. G. railroad. The company will mine and sell coal in car and trainload lots or sell by ton lots at their mine. American Fork will be the principal place of business. American Fork Citizen. |
