, 1869-01-28
UTAH.
Progress Of the Pacific Railroad,
The Descent Int The Salt Lake
Basia.

AAo OoSxEHs AatV Auo GAAt 1aht
Basin.
The Construction of the Road.
Tho Comlne Trade aad lis
Value.
From Oar Special Correspondent.
SALT LAKE ri7y, Jan. u.
Presumtns that aus sthire regarding the Pa
clhc Railroad will be Of interest to you, and
having Just como over 1t from Denver, or
ra'her cheyenne, make no apologies ior
this communication. And frs, as beng Of
most immediate interest, regarding its con.
straction. The road is open for uuelic busi-
ness TO Bryan onlT; for supplying the con-
tractors and construction material 1t Is
o1en to Wasa.ch, about 9G5 miles from
Omaha. The eeyen miles next westward
from "asatch, the first Of the descent into
salt Lake Basin, are very he.vy work. It
WAS let to certain persons some months
ago, one Of whom remarked to a
stteEd Of mine that he had
gcod thing, since the track
couldn't possibly reach him before next An.
gust, But the track came up with their
work about the first Of The year, and Durant
proceeded to cover it with men and teams.
all but the so'-soet tunnel, which was LETT in
! their hauos, ut FIRST with company men.
Later portions Of i. were let to didtrrnt Der.
sons-Whitman & Warner, Green Il Hill,
Reynolds & bowling, ETC., Miller t. Pattur-
son, the original contractors. b?lnc ut work
| on the tunnel, and Carmi. hac! on utnc, par
Of 1t TOR the company. j thousand LANDS
are engaged on ii, and 1t will b. flushed 10
| siyty lays.
All this Il not Obtaining the layln" Of
truck, for zig.zas or swltch.b,ck has tlec.l
n1adc round this piece Of WORK, and thus the
head OF Echo Canon reached, down which
tue truck Is laid, to night, to within three OF
four miles OF Echo City, At the mourh Of tho
canon, where it makes Into the Nebrr. It
VIII be laid 10 that point, which will tucucc-
forward be headquarters OF construction, in
| day o. two, certainly ~ tnc cud Of the
IL. It may fem strange. but track.lay-
| .uG las heen nhstructed lately. not by snow
in he Hack lils or the Wasutrh. but by
SNOW in Iowa. detaintng there lot o. spikes,
t. Dnfant's intfable chagrln. liz shoutd rr-
of 1nen, VAS beaten By the eleuen,s.
Below Echo City, Gown Wener R ycr, Is
twcrty- =evtn miles, on which there arc Two
tunnels, one heavy cut through slate, anl
tve or six bridges. Alt TIL. wus originally
IN bs'g CHAM Y"ung's contract, but 1t WAS to
Tint ilerc Il no dissatisfaction with The put.
| ting on OF more men, william Ifyndtlap.
working .f5 men. t. c1cayuting Tic Gu. III
slate Point, SIX and halt 1nir. heluw Ecao
City. IT Is ~ tect deep by 5l3 long, mid
cannot oe @ COMPLETED n less than forty days.
working 1Ma0 tnen on heavy s'dr cu. in rack
one and hnlf mlErs lOng-two.,h|rds at It
dune. Chethrougl & Mttice, with 80, men,
nrc exc -vatlng tunnel I'D irci long, fu-lner
down. 1t IS Of the hardest graulsc Unr
hundred feet o1 II nrc done, md il will ho
pushed ut the rate o. I've icvt i day till com
pttcd.
Bit this will not dcsa.n the track. since n
temporary truck can und will hi nude round
If. minor tunnel still below, aud nil y, hcf
uE1nithcd work in WrIrs. " In The hand.
Of sfnr'nnns. md will mt u III thu wAy.
From tho inn,1th nf Wcbtr tu Ogden I. ,ct,
or t'l"n lnllcs, nlrsudy DIM. rAr bridges
Arc Ifoin a0O 10 aW teea tnng, the tlMtpr us
lhc gf"sna ".d .mH*arry mostly dons 81,
thrco.of ihc'n.. Every curray Of The con,
peny IT, =, ''syn.sa s, !" hutrysng then w. Tne
of t;mIrr, but " the hrud oT j dry can,l
making lntn thr W.t,er. the wall, vi whicl
npproncl so Marly at illr bottom Ihat tcan,l
cat'n0t Fa's. hut lMllst ait gn up together, ant
CONG down, liltn they lItyc found nne
nom Omaha ~ utsll tlIr trlck to U.d,n and
M detention il expected from want Of tics
large number having been snt out tcn ly
twenty u!llcs so1lIl nf The track 10 the uetsl,
horhood Of nccd's Summit. The company
lIuve wcatAcsed their str,.ss for ttau,s aud
nls TINT, 70 tlat b. general order ttlctr pric,
hns been reduced twenty per cent, und al
extra time dtsal1owed. Heretofore men avn
Jug ltanls nnd fransportattcn hare been fix
lug their Own terms. making their cn:irt
value III SIX weeks or so Bur no more y
that now. Durunt says the track will ue IL
., den IN thirty days, leed says in forty,
ssy in sixty. From Ogden to slnnuulep
Point, eighty miles, the grade is making fast
and will not BE- found in the way Of trace
laying. according 10 the hest intor,ua
was twent1 -one miles IRON IIumtmlit Wells
last evening, that point britE -? mi .cs from
Ogden. ana their grade will te completed t,
Monument Poin' on the 15ll inst. They hays
put under contract aud gre making thu grade
bstwcen tie latter place and Ogden, side by
neient Iron to lay clear to this city in SAT-
Francisco, With ample rolling stock to bs,us
it forward. two things thu want oil whict
has been dctalninS them lately. they cx
Ftct TO average the laying OF two nnd hal
miles Of track from this on TO tho end, st
that the two cantending eian's have eact
eighty. perhaps ninety, probably i hundse.
Jays yet before them, and will probably mce
IN the vicinity Of Eear River north. TIL
Union iaelhc having got hel ond the snow,
reeiun, so to speak. the chances OF detention
By the wea1htr. either in the work 3r triuy.
ing up mat erial,arc about equal, tile Contra
having tee advantage in the former and III
Eniou in the latter.
The coming town, the point Of diyergcnc
ior Ibis city. ard probably for Idaho m,
) Nontana, will be at or near ogden. Man
are locking for the Immediate building OF
branch to Puget Sound on the part OF tA
Union. and uf Il connecting link through til
mountains between Salt Lake and Denver o
, the part Of tue Central,gising each athrous
road. But the election Of Grant seems liksl
money subsidies in aid Of railroad:
and no private organization wi
attempt either Of these enterprises, be rer
sure, with their own means. Nor does th
country yet need them. At all events, the
arc in the indeaIite future. whi'c the trad
hcad-centrc Of Utah. il in sight. somc,hEn
pnlpable and tangible. The railroad tow
CT the Basin must be located primarily wit
T reference to this, and nature has SO arrange
things TINT It must be at or near Ogden. q
present q mean little place Of three thousan
| natural elements or great town in her ma,
ufacturing facilities alone.
As to the icoustruction Of the Pacific Raj
i road, It is not done according to contrac
from Bryan west wsId the grade Is low,. j
some places made Of chunks of frozen dlr'
which will soften into mush in the spring
, the cuiyests and bridges arc all of wond
: temporary structures: there are few build
fnss, tanks, EidinRs, and suspect no, cnoug
: rolling stock; but no one can have auy Gun
ception OF the magnificent proportions of tn
road as an enterprise, nor Of The muiitud
. OF obstacles crowdlrg the pathway Of the ad
| yepturous builders. II il not being built t.
. a.grandize. individuals, carpolatioa, q
eYen nation, and that nation the Unite
States: 1t ia being bui!t to facilitate an
world, the object Of the builders being glor
: rather than money. Why, they might hay
made this part ol 1t for half the money ha
: they taken another year for It.. Think c
giving railroad gruders three dollars iaY
and teams such hire ms psys to
; them in six weeks. The object in rushin
!. has been to get through the SNOWY Hasatc:
!, be'ore the w1Lter should set In in earnest. an
dctatn them aId the e1pectant world four Q
, tIye months. They thi.k they have succeed
,, road will he finished up as dr.t,class road
according to contract, Is what the compan
! Is doing now-morln- heaven and earth t
, water uitH iron horse In the Pacific. an
bring through our country the trade octwee
ruder ages OF the world, scattered opulen
!; cities ali over the Persian Empire, made Tyre
i Jerusalem, Carthage, ROME, Alexaudria
4 Venice Amsterdam. &C.; Since the dis
. covcry Of America and the Pacific Uceat
: It has tseu done bg and throuR
London, making her the llead-centrc Of tn
y worlds commerce, increasing. meanwhile
from tritling amount to half million ton
per atnum. Once the world clustered to7n
The Mediterranean. For the last three hut
dred years the Atlantic has been lts centre {
c.} activity; beuceforlh the Pacific Is TO be !,
:. | tnl.Id sta. The Proportions Of It's bushes