Show most fot important vo in 1011 1911 it fetn Pant panthier lier med the most important piece of rail road const construction rution work ond and the biggest from an tin engineering standpoint completed in utah during the rei year la is the attah railroad the tola length of the road 1 ii ly forty eight miles and anti the coat cost about 1 it WAS completed about at out november lat lot ae sax sunday sunda a bait balt lake tribune the road was constructed in two to links the conler work waa vas on the link from the r ain aln line of the denver demer and illo orande grande at panther junction juet just cant east of cartle gate to the mines at itla ck hawk and Moh mohrland this thin section is 1 about twenty eight miles in length the other link nearly twenty one miles long parallels par allela the denver dener and illo grande between thistle and pro provo 0 the road was as built b the united states smelting Ile refining fining and mining company and aas leased to the denver er and illo orande grande for operation it was to ocre the mints in the castle valle district on account 0 of f the inability of the S southern utah rail stil oad to serve merve the territory properly ahe work ork was begun about two yes ago in addition to the normous amount event in building the line the company has ordered five hundred and fort fortl all steel coal care earn of the latest type representing an expenditure of more than half halt a million dollare dollars the majority of the can cari have been boon received and alq now in serice the remainder bf cf the equipment 1 14 being furnished ly by the denver demer and illo grande the section from panther junction Junit lon to the minea mines presents pre unusual engineering features it nine runs through a very cry rough territory and the original idea to construct ho the road with a maximum grade ut of 3 2 per cent to the mines and all down donn grade from them was aas carted out in this way ay the mallet engine ran can handle boveno fhe loaded iara care from mm the minee mines and accent alj empties on the return trip and over cimei the difficulty usually expert e tied ked in tt trio handlei gr 9 of equipment another stature of the construction la in the bridge mer oer gordon creek in carlion cartoon count the bridge an opening neen seen hundred and forty feet lone long and anti a hundred and thirty fet fett deep Nume numerous roue cut cuts from fro twenty to nore more than 9 hundred feet deep and two tio were nei arv sarv to got the proper grade A large per t tent nt of the excavating wae was done through rock the material moed ae aeraiel ragel 12 ver per lent tent earth 20 per cent loose ruck rock and 88 68 per cent wald rock the track ia in laid with ith ninety pound rail over the entire route bhough in aurven hae hac been made tor for an extension the road waa was planned with k ith a view jew of some da continuing the line to the mining properties in candon can on the blunting ton canyon lit Is about wen feen milea miles long and la to said to contain one of tho largest coal fields in the country A few email small fininen have been opened 0 la in the thil canyon but owing to the inc 1 of transportation facilities have not been developed de eloped |