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Show THE RAILROADS OF UTAH. Iho number of projocts for girdling Utah with railroads is steadily increasing There aro now iu operation in this territory ter-ritory 1,050 miles of railroad, as follows. Union Parifio. 604 miles; RIoUrande Western. 253 miles; Central PIciQcl50 miles) Utah Central, 60, There aro now in process of construe' ion or crgaulzatlon with evory reason able possibility of being be-ing carried successfully through, three lines t Tho Mllford extonslon of tho Union l'uclflo, from Mllford to I'locbo, just ovor tho Nevada lino in Lincoln county, 144 miles all gradt-s; tho Utah, Nevada and California roid botwoon Halt Lnko und LwA ngnles via Somhern Isovadu' 360 miles Ii. Utah, rights of way secured and bonds now being floated, tho Deep Crrek road, running from tho coal beds twon ty flvo miles north-east of Kvanston. Wyoming, Wyo-ming, through Salt Lako City weft to Clifton mining district just ovor tho Novada line, 200 niilos, graded in spots, 226 miles lu Utah, extensions now being buill on Utah Central, 126 miles, nearly all graded; tho Castle Vulley road from Price station on tho Rio Grando Western forty mllos Into the Southern lleldi of iron, coal, asphaltum misonil wax etc; tho Utah and Idaho roads, now organic, ing, to run north nd west from Skull Valley Station, on the Dcop Creek road cutting tho Central Pacific atLucin station. sta-tion. 143 miles from Ogdon and 120 ml les from Salt Lako direct, crossing the Oregon Short Lino noiirBhoahone station and running via Holly to tho Salmon river in Idaho, 200 miles, ot which only about 75 milt h aro in Utah, Tills makes a total ot UGO miles, or, totul oporated and projected of 2,010 miler, Northwest em financier. |
