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Show CONSTRUCTION STARTS ON A RAILROAD It has been only a few months since David Ecclos ji this city negotiated the sale of the Black Hawk coal claims in Emery county in tho southeastern south-eastern part of the state to Salt Lake parlies, and sinco that time there has been much said regarding the building build-ing of an independent railroad from the coal beds to some commercial center or to a point whero transportation transpor-tation connections could be mado with tho railroads leading to the coal markets. mar-kets. A number of surveys havo been made, but up to the present time the building of the road has been only prospective. Today, however. It Is a certainty that the road is to bo built, or, at least construction Is to begin, for tho Utah Construction company of this city has arranged for the establishing estab-lishing of two grading camps in the country over which tho road is to pass, and within the next fow days actual construction work will begin. Speaking of the project this morning, morn-ing, Manager W. H. Wattls of the Utah Construction company said that his compan Is shipping equipment for railroad building to Black Hawk and Moreland. having contracted with the Utah Railway company. When asked whether the company expected to begin work Immediately he said: "Wo surely are not shipping tho outfit out there for fun. and, furthermore, further-more, It has been tho custom of the company to begin work when the men and teams get to the place of construction. con-struction. 1 cannot say anything about the plans of the company, nor do I know Just where this road begins be-gins nor whero it leads to. We will be guided by the survey stakes nnd will begin building the grade. We will havo one camp at Black Hawk and another at Moreland In the vicinity vicin-ity of tho Castle Valloy country. Tho elevation of tho country where wo are going to work is 7,000 feet above sea level, so you see that it is in tho mountains. Wo can do a great deal of work bofore snow flics and, as a matter of fact, we can work In the winter season In most countrlos." Mr. Wattls stated, however, that he understands that tho proposed road from tho coal deposists to tho Rio Grande at Indlanopla, a few miles south of Thistle Junction and on the branoh line leading to the southern part of the state, through Sanpete and Sovler countlos, has been abandoned and that the road will lead from the mines to a point on tho Rio Grande at some point east of tho Soldier Summit. It is possible that the new road will Intersect tho Rio Grande at Castle Gate, a point a number of miles north of Prlco, and parallol that road over the big hill known as Soldier Summit, Sum-mit, down Spanish Fork canyon to Provo and thon on to Salt Lake It Is possible, too, that connections will be made with the San Pedro at Provo or Spanish Fork. It Is also possible that tho new company does not expect to build the road farther than to the Rio Grande near Castlo Gate and then depend on the Gould system to handle the products of tho company's property. |