The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-14

Survey q . Raileead Linz fiom Long
mont, Colorado, 70 Cheyenne.
via Fort Collins.

For several years past, says the Dem
yer News, but more particularly since
the Union Pacific company acquired
railroad interests in Colorado, q railroad
from Denver and Golden to Cheyenne
has been under consideration, and as
early as 1867 a preliminary survey was
made by Captain Berthoud, who found
the distance from Golden-along the
foot-hills-to be 100 miles, or a trife
longer than the plains line Of the Dem
yer Pacific from Denver to Cheyenne.
Within the past week, which also wit
messed what is conceded to be a settle
ment of the Colorado Central and Urion
Pacific lawsuits, the project Of build
ing this connecting link has been re-
vived, as may be seen from the follow
ing
ORDER FOR SURVEY.
NEW YORK, March 10, 1877.
To E. L. Berthoud, Golden
Commence survey at once from
Longmont to Cheyenne in direct line
by way of Fort Collins.
w. A. II. LovELAND.
This dispatch was received at a late
hour Sunday evening, and preparations
to carry it out were at once put under
way. Captain Berthoud has organized
his party of eight men, arranged for
transportation and supplies, and left
Golden yesterday morning for the be-
ginning of tile new line at Iongmont.
The work Of surveying will be COM
menced to-day, and, if good weather
continues, will be completed in thirty
days.
THE PROPOSED ROAD
will run from Longmont to near st.
Louis, on the Big Thompson, a dis
lance of seventeen miles, and thence
to Fort Collins. fourteen miles from st.
Louis. This part of the line presents
no obstruction to railroad building,
runs through good farming land all the
way, and is ven now pretty well settled
up, so that a paying traffic in hay,
wheat and farm produce is assured in
advance. From Fort Collins the line
will run north to Box Elder creek, and
from thence by way of Lone Mound
towards the head of Lone Tree creek,
| and thence north to Cheyenne, passing
Natural Fort. The distance from Fort
Collins to Cheyenne, over the line here
mentioned, is forty-two miles, making
the total distance from Longmont
equal to se~venty-three. The distance
between Denver and Cheyenne will be
nearly 1875 miles. The country from
Fort Collins to Box Elder, eight miles,
is known to be excellent farming land,
and from this creek to Cheyenne the
road will run through some of the
finest pastures in Northern Colorado.
The only heavy work to be done is in
| crossing the northern divide. The coal
deposits near the Wyoming line will
| also add to the traffic of the road.
PROBABLE EFFECTS.
While it is not yet positively Known
that this road will be built, yet all the
preparations thus far made warrant the
| supposition that the railroad combina-
ton interested in the work mean bust
ness. Two years ago the Union Pacific
management had the building Of this
line in view, and calculations were then
made by way of Greeley as well as Fort
| Collins. The maps, notes, ETC., are
now in possession of the Union Pacific,
| SO that their choice of the Fort Collins
route is not made blindly or without
due regard to the local trade of the
present and future. The road will
doubtless be a broad gauge line.