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Show SPROM IARYSVALE H TO IRON DEPOSITS. M Rio Grande Western to Build Exlcu- ; H sion Into This Count'. jH PRELIMINARY SURYIiY NEARLY DONE. - B Survey Crosses Mountains Ncnr Buck- jH horn, Thence via Pnrowan The large party of lllo Grande West- H ern surveyors that has been engaged for some weeks past in running the H preliminary surveys for the extension H of tho railroad from Murysvulc Into tho -H heart of tho Iron region of this county, H will finish its work, The Record Is re- H llably informed, next week. The party is now in camp at Iron Springs, ami wo H learn that one survey has been run to H Hie vicinity of Desert Mound. It is al- H so reported on good authority that the H survey is to terminate, for the t resent H at least, in the vicinity of Iron Oity, ll tho company apparently having no In- H teiitinu to build to a connection with H the San I'cdro road, unless tho Milncr- H ('lark people have arranged to meet the O. W. at the iron H As near as The Record has been ablo H to ascertain the line follows thu route ll of the old Moore survey; It croscs tho H mountains atOrtou's ranch, and reaches thlb side near lluckhorn Springs; H thence via P.irowan and Summit: it H skirts the foot lulls east of the Union H field and then crosses the valley to Iron H Springs gap. Cedaar City is left just to tho soutliest of the surveyed route, and terminal buildings would probably H be erected just out of the city. AN omr.R HUltVBY TALKED 01', H Tlicre is also a report, which lacks M I verification, that unothei survey Is to, J be ruivj ;turAttordwiiyh thI'qr,awnji - - rB gaii"nwUj,ih"-o aro million of' acres ' " " H IronSprrai ' Jiprthorn Wisconsin, H credits thoS CrWS-... H would even go to tiity, iJo; uoptJ . ,JUo l ningsueh a line, for tliM-Kfijit "J UJ Pa H nothing would bo sived i n (HsWnccj and the grade though this valley Is an "" 1 easy one. Under these circumstances, H it is not reasonable to suppose lhat the H railroad would seriously consider giv- H ing the metropolis of the county the It is well understood Unit the inter- H estswliich control tho Itio Ur.ind Wes- tern railroad and the Colorado Fule & Iron Co. are closely allied, ami the ex tension of tho U. U. U tracks south- west from Marysvale Into the Iron de- posits of this county fits inexactly with H the reports given out several months H ago that it was Hie intention of thu H Colorado Fule & Iron Co., which is per- H haps the largest, owner in tho deposits, to ship large quantities of the Iron to H their IMicblo plants. In the mean time the last named company Is steadily employing about one hundred men in developing their H properties, so that the mines will bo rerdy for active production by the time the rails are laid. H |
