Show the utah northern R K R mr nir geo S kennedy who is intimately ti associated with the utah Nort northern heru herh railroad is quite encouraged with the prospects of its extension to cottonwood cotton wood 30 miles this side of franklin this summer bummer and gives us the following information of its status and operations which lie he vouches as authentic and reliable the road is now graded and ready for the ties and rails to a point 15 miles this side of franklin and within three miles of bear River biver except a tunnel 1300 feet long dirt work on which as large a force of men as can be ad advantageously valli tage employed are nonworking now working and which will be completed by july this tunnel was commenced last year the approach approaches eq heavy cuts 2000 feet in length were made last fall and the tunnel commenced but the contractor did not understand timbering the tunnel and threw up the contract coi tract it has been at higher rates to a competent eln ciu tractor fifty men are now on the be bear ar river biver side of the tinnel ti annel unel and mr richardson will 1 I i on the ground in a person by the I 1 of may to push the work on bear river callan the instrumental surveys and working profiles of which have been madia made and completed by engineer cleburne of the U P B R R and extended to cottonwood within forty five miles mile s of eagle rock bock bridge Ther the road oadis is all paid for as far as the work is done oa on its completion to bear river in july a station will be put in the terminus established there and gilmer sails salisbury burys stage line will conneau at that point by october the road is to be completed to cottonwood when the stages will turn off at corbetts and run via fort hall to cottonwood the iron bridge for bear river is now completed in chicago and will be shipped through uil uli ull 9 as soon as the tunnel is open the route now surveyed is up the west side of bear river valley ten tea miles thence into gentile korjack or jaek jack valley which opens over into snake river valley and comes out en on the old stage road near fort hall the line is due north from franklin to eagle rock bridge leaving soda springs eighteen miles to the east and port neuf canon as far to the west it saves twenty five miles of the distance on the present stage route and obviates the travel of the heavy sand roads below corbetta corbetts when the road gets out to cottonwood its heavy work will be past until it a strikes the main ran rane range 0 e at dry creek new northwest |