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Show GRANGER & OREGON ROAD. We clip the following ?? from a letter to the Ogden Herald: For the last six weeks about 2?? teams belonging primarily to Patterson, Fife & Co., and ?? Brothers, together with their sub-contractors, have been lying idle, but today they are at work again and the hand? of industry is heard along the line. With this movement the grading of the road enters Bear Lake Valley, emerging from the windings of the canyon opposite ?? and about ten miles ?? the lake. The line passes through ??, and with a gentle ?? ?ward follows the course of the river, passing to the left ?? out ?? at the distance of half a mile. It was once thought the road would enter Soda, but it is now doubtful, the engineer considers the route impractical ??. It will likely pass down the river bottom?, at a distance of perhaps a mile down that face. This road is of great importance for the people of Bear Lake Valley, isolated as they have been in the past, from ?? communication with other ??. An [unreadable line] to have the end of a passenger ?? located at Montpelier, and to [unreadable line] a committee comprised? of prominent men of the valley has been appointed to negotiate with the ?? company, and empowered to make certain ?? to them in consideration of such concession. The track is laid twenty-five miles from Granger, and now awaits the completion of about ten miles of unfinished grades? of Cromell? & Weller's contract on Ham's Fork. It was once believed that the road would be completed to Soda this winter, but it is now quite improbable. Snow falls everywhere, and the season is already ?? advanced. Some express the opinion that track laying will extend not beyond Smith's Fork and ?? understand the chief engineer said he would be fully satisfied if it reached this valley. You are, no doubt, already informed of the recent eastern visit of Mr. Negus of the U.& W. Here, on business connected with that road. The object in ?? is evidently either the sale of the rights of the U.& W. line to the U.P., or a compromise with that company, [unreadable line] of the G.& O. road has lately received instructions to make an examination of the survey of the other line and report to headquarters. When asked his opinion respecting the object of his investigation he answered that it meant either a purchase or a lawsuit. Whoever the winners now be, they will obtain possession of a country containing an inexhaustible supply of coal. For miles on either side of the summit through which the tunnel will pass are rolling hills from which barren sides project cliffs of white sandstone ?? of which are innumerable croppings of the "black diamond," silent tokens of the untold wealth that lies beneath. Respectfully yours, Z. BEAR LAKE VALLEY, Aug. 22d. |
