Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-05-29 | Page 5 | Railroad Notes

RMIRM NOTES Wasatch Railroad. Under this name a company will ask for Incorporation Incor-poration In Utah to build about six miles of line from San Pitt, Utah, to Wasatch. J. G. Jacobs is said to bo back of tho project (From the Railway Age Gazette.) Portorvlllo North-Eastcrn. It is expected ex-pected that this company will finish work on July 1 on this Hue now under. construaUou from Portervlllo, Cal , to Sprlngvillo, Tularo county, 1C miles. Tho Utah Construction Company, Ogden, Og-den, Utah, are the contractors. Stations Sta-tions are to be put up at Worth, Globe, MicFnrland, and Sprlngvllle. IF. U. Nofzlger, president, and C. S. Free-land, Free-land, engineer, Portervlllo. Texas Roads. C, H. Bcatty. Ogden, Utah, Is said to be back of a project to build between Austin, Tcxns, and Frederlckebure, about SO miles. It Is understood that the lino will bo built, if $180,000 In bonuses can be raised, and land for two townsltes Is donated. The people of Fredericksburg Fredericks-burg have had a standing offer for some time of $100,000 to anv railway company that will build from that placo to Austin or San Antonio. It is announced that surveys are being made by tho Rio Grande Construction Con-struction Company nor a lino between Eagle Pass, Texas and Brownsville The. route follows the valley of tho Rio Grande, via the towns of Laredo, Roma, and Rio Grande Cl The line will open to development territory that Is now lacking railway transportation transport-ation facilities Ar W. Llllendahl, Saltillo, Mexico, is back of the project.