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Show "Whoop-em-up!' The Haiiroad Sure Go this! Tiim. Cnpt I C. Kanford Giv&s Some Information- The Iron Horse yrill Shortly be Here. Capt. I.C. Hanlord who is here in San Pete in the interest ot the R. G. VV. Ry. met with the City Council t f Ephraim Monday night and with a Mass Meeting ol the citizens on Tuesday. From the gentleman's statements we glean the tht following news: . The road bed is graded from Thistle to the summit 4 miles, with the exception except-ion of a little work on the summit divis-ijd; divis-ijd; aud a Kood deal ol grading .3 done on this side of the Summit. Coming up on the north side ol the divide is the heaviest g.ade on the road, and that is no heavier than the grade ol the S. P. V. running into Manti; on this side of tne summit the heaviest grade is one per cent. It is the intention of the company, com-pany, it the business is heavy enough to keep a "helper"' ot Th.stie to come up this grade Mr. Hanlord was instructed to locate a good road, as the company wanted it to tie no "one-horse" 'ari'air, hence the desire to keep the grade down. Grading is going ahead on this side of tne summit and ihe right of way ha been pui chased between Mt. P.easant and Fairview. The ct mpany are experiencing exper-iencing some difficulty in settling for the rifcht of way as there are so many small landowners; but they are paving for the land as they come on. All they ask ol the people is to be as reasonable in prices as possible. The contracts fur the grading to Manti are all let, aud the work has to be finished finish-ed by the first ol November. The grade will be completed to Fairview in three weeks. The only difficulty anticipilated is the ties, but there are a g cd many on hand and the company has got 75 000 lrtm Oregon that can be used. Tlieie is plenty of iron on hand. The rails are 45 It's steel, the same that have been taken tak-en up from the main line. The grade w II be a gtuge and a number ot broad guage ties are being put down but a n urow guage will be run for a time at least. Mr. Hanford said he had every reason to believe that the road.would be built to Ephraim befoie the first ol January, 1890 All the cumpany are asking of the various city in coropnration in San Pete are the right of way on one of the metis and Depot grounds, and in Ephraim, Eph-raim, water for a water tai.k. For depot de-pot grounds and siding the company want about 80 rods in length, by 6 wide this will give sufficient room tor teams to drive up bv the side of the cars and load or unload them. In asking for the right cf way, Mr. Hanlord stated thai it would be necess-aty necess-aty for his road to be east ol the S. P. V, road, as their line) is east to nearly Manti, when it crosses the grade ol the lattet road. Were the road to run west ol (he S. P. V. they would have to cross that road three times an seven miles, or elie paialclB them to Manti and ij percent gradeJaud this they did not want to do if thty could possible avoid it. |
