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Show UTAH COAL ROAD BEGINS ACTIVE WORK Last weeks Price Advocate has the following to say on the Utah coal road, which was briefly mentioned in our last issue: "Last week the Utah Coal Railroad company of which W. G. Sharp is ' P'esident and which is owned by United States Smelting, Mining and Refining company, let the contract for , twenty-eight miles of railroad grading from Mohrland in Emery county to a point about half way between Helper and Castle Gate, the latter thirteen miles west of price in Carbon county. The contract calls for completion of the grade and bridges within ninety days. The line is to be laid.with ninety pound steel for Mallet engines of the latest type. "From Mohrland to Black Hawk an ., entirely new line is to be constructed through what is locally known as the Pass, and which not only does away with a 5 per cent or worse grade, but shortens the distance from five and a half miles down to two and a half or better, doing away with over half of the Castle Valley road between the two points. The Utah Coal road crosses the Southern Utah a short distance dis-tance above Castle Junction. It then Bkirts the hills on the east with an easy grade and comes its closest to Price at a pi int near "the pinnacle," west of this city. "From the pinnacle the line goes in back of Helper a mile or so, crossing through the Jesse Knight properties in Spring Canyon and then on to Half Way House, just below the Consolidated Consoli-dated Fuel company's properties in Panther Canyon, recently bought from F. N. Cameron, Sam C. Sherrill and F. LatuJa. From the Half Way House to the west the Utah Coal road may f go up Price River Canyon, paralleling the Denver and Rio Grande over I Soliier Summit, or it may take the Willow Creek route. As yet the survey sur-vey from Castle Gate to a connection ' with the San Pedro has not been a-dopted. a-dopted. "The heaviest grade from Mohrland to Castle Gate is understood to be ljj per cent, while over Sjldier Summit on the west side the grade may be kept down to the same figure, if not lighter. Since the Consolidated Fuel owns valuable valu-able coal lands in Willow Creek jast around the mountain point from Castle Gate, it may be that the rail road will take the Willow Creek route. However, How-ever, the Denver and Rio Grande does not, under the law, control Price River Canyon, so it is possible for another line to build through there. "Utah Construction company will by the end of this week have three grading camps established along the line of work, most of the grading to be s with steam shovels. Four carloads of y. grading machinery, including one t:eio shovel, isnov at Mohrland witn much other to follow, including men and teans. Work, it is understood, under-stood, will commen :e at both ends and run to a connection somewhere about ten to fifteen ".miles from the two given points. Later the contract is to be let for the work from the Half Wav Hou.i'e on over the Summit tc Provo or Spanish Fork. v "To the south of Mohrland the company has several surveying crops in the field and a gentleman who is in a position to know, says the destination destina-tion of the road is the big iron deposits of Southern Utah. If it is constructed on south great coking coal deposits in Huntington Canyon would be developed aa well as the coal fields of Emery county around Orangeville, Castledale and the town of Emery, to say nothing of those in Salina Canyon and further oo south. The Southern ' Utah from - Price to Hiawatha and Black Hawk is to be relaitl with ninety-pound steel. "The United Stated Smelting now controls the Consolidated Kuel com-p.-1-ly at Hiawatha, the Black Hawk Coal company at Black Hawk, the Castle Valley Coal company at Mohr land and about two hundred acres ot fine coal lands near Castle Gate, together to-gether with the Castle Valley and the Southern Utah railroads out of Price. The present tonnage from the three developed de-veloped camps in Carbon and Emery counties is now aroundtif ty cars a day which is delivered from the Southern Utah to the Denver and Rio Grande at Price. This output may he doubled or even trebled with better shipping facilities. |
