| Show 9 ITS IFON ah ON i icks up bargain in steel back in missouri LBERT R BARNES TALKS OF PLANS OF BACKERS barkers lek albert K R barnes the salt lake ity attorney who has able legal work for the consoli abed fuel company m while bile here last fast iday expressed himself as bonfi ert artof of the building of the railroad is fall from price out on top of a comes tho the sunday salt lake ity papers with the information at things are going nicely with is company and that work is spon von i begin on the line the inter buntain republican says the consolidated fuel company inch owns a large coal field about enty miles southeast of price bowl ed a deal for some t twenty enty miles f steel rails last week and wid before other week has passed it will ben grading on the branch road from ice tee to the minis at miller creek ir r the last year this company has en een working on the development of I 1 he e mine with a force of men and ays eys for the branch road are all and rights of way sered the company alieves bl ieves it can malete the railroad within ninety ys s at the outside and it will then in mediately become a factor in sup ying the salt lake market the right of way for the railroad om m the mines to the denv er and grande at price lie through oat t one and one half miles of gov ent forest reserve and it took out ut one and one half miles of red pe to get permission for the rail ad to be built through this strip lere ere was a time during the irions when it looked as though the company would have to install oil burning locomotives on the litt little e mad ad but this was conceded by the ern ment and the fast last obstacle was u cleared more than a i month ago in buying its rails the company was confronted with the problem of e cestive cost owing to the recent this was boived hou however eer by the discovery of a railroad of labout out the same length as the loal local wanted that h had ha A been abandoned in missouri this rail oad id wu built several years ago to A nine that tu turned arned out to be a pros 1 it and the steel which hannever had never ned ed wae was for naki nabe ata a at t a reason ible ie price the railroad from price to the q her iller creek mines will DP te twenty lea long and with the exception of I 1 nile mile up the canyon can on at about 5 per cent it there will be no heavy grade grad no difficulty in its construction is is anticipated ci for the reason that the nt ahr through ugh which the road mes es is free f from rom deep can cannons ons or adges es and the only important stream to be crossed is the price river about ut a mile from the town the u prial terminal of the road TON 1 be near the about quarter of a mile ca east of the Denv erand rio grande depot depo tand and avle pie sidetracks will be provided ua edition addition to a wye the coni company pany not yet decided on the type of angine tine it will ill use at fir first a although 04 account count of the grade in the can yo n 1 a shea engine will probably be used in addition to its coal property ahe s company haa has a large brt of litber r land and a water cupply of ample magnitude to furnish the mine and town and irrigate truck farms near the camp the timber on the property is said to be large enough to supply lumber for build and trestle work on the railroad and also fui fenish a good part of the ties for the road the miller creek property is in two canyons which aie intersected by two separate veins jf coal so that when the development work is completed the company will have eight separate mines |
