Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-04-21 | Page 17 | Building Railroad on Beds of Salt

BUILDING RAILROAD ON BEDS OF SALT SAU Eight Miles of Western Pacific Will Be on Solid Deposit LAND BELONGS TO STATE Who Have Located Mining Claims Have Labor I for Pains Building illg a railroad on a bed ed of salt Is what the tho Western Pa Pacific Ilc compan company Is doing now In western Utah A. A J. J for fOI the Dominion Bruneau engineer and Old Glory Copper companies who ha has aas just returned from tho Sih ilet Cl Island district after making a periodIcal period period- Ical cal inspection of the companies' companies properties properties prop pros says sars that the traci arat ar aro at the eastern castern edge of or tho the famous fatuous salt beds heds and that thc they will reach a point opposite the Silver cr Island Islan district Just across cross the Utah Utah- Utah Nevada c line lInc in about tit IPP Wll c ks The salt ii deposit at this point Is Is eight miles wide Its total length is about bout 30 miles and Its thickness s sa va vales va- va arles rIgs rles les from a few inches at the outer rim im of the basin to eight feet in the deeper ceper portions The surface of tho deposit is level and Mr Ir Bruneau says that the track will be laid Hat flat Halon on the solid t salt alt which Is 15 as hard as pave pan meat ment Afterward the track will be ballasted with gm gravel cr Tho The commercial possibilities of such an enormous deposit of or salt are arc of course cOUlse enormous enormous' and with tho the railroad railroad rail all road at hand han some one will be bc taking advantage antage of them In fact parties already are arc tr trying to do this but hut Mr Il Bruneau says that their theil efforts as at al present directed will be of no avail all Thc They have located about claims under the mining laws These will not hold holtI good he says for or the reason that nil 11 saline lands In Utah have been ceded to the state for the tho benefit nt of or the University of or Utah So that whoever whoever who who- ever eyer works those salt snIt beds must deal I with Uh the state land board boar Mine s Had to Slim Shin J I I Mr Bruneau u jays fays that both 1 Dominion Do Do- minion and the Old Glory con aro out considerable goods copper copper cop cop- per per- ore In iii the course of or development t work Tho Dominion has hns its ils tunnel in Iq feet Tho The Old Glorys Glory's shaft is down feet feel and a drift is Js being run on the vein cIn Doth Both companies will be ready to start shipping as 4 soon oon aa as the thc railroad will handle their oies ot-es and they have ha assurance from flom the company com coin pan pany that a regular schedule will be c put on between Salt lake and antI hews Bows on the tho Nevada evada Northern as soon a as the road reaches tho the latter place which it Is believed will bo be about July 1