The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-27
RAILROADS..
More of Them, and Still they Come.
The Denver and Rio Grande Sure tC
CONS 70 this City.
The Utah and Nevada Railroad to
bs Pushed $50 Miles West.

A couple of days ago there ap
peared in these columns an item o.
a rumor going the rounds, the effecr
of which was that the Denver anC
Rio Grande was making its way in &
nvely manner TO salt Lake City
and that the Utah and Pleasant Val.
ley Railroad had been purchased by
hat company and was to be con.
.inued to Salt Lake City. The SAINT
day this item appeared, a HERALL
reporter made inquiry, as to the ac-
'curacy of the Tumor, of parties
whose positions and connections
warranted the belief that they would
know something about the
matter, but the answer was
an unequivocal denial that
the Utah and Pleasant Valley hao
been sold to the Denver and RiC
Grande company, and an equally
emphatic denial of any knowledge
OF the contemplated construction OF
the Denver and Rio Grande to this
city. However, proof has been OBJ
tanned which inclines strongly to the
belief that, not only has contract
or understanding been entered into
that the Utah and Pleasant Valley
road should become the property OF
the Denver and Rio Grande, but
that it will be the channel. or one
Of them, through which the
Denver narrow guage company
will reach Salt Lake City. For the
past week the purchase of consider
able land has been going on i'll the
Of the Sixth Nv ard adobe
yard, until some thirty acres have
been secured, and this land is pur-
chased for the Denver and Rio
ITande railroad to be used as a
iepot. There are now working in
Salina Pass about 800 men, in grad
ng and tieing the track for the
Rio Grande narrow gauge railroad.
All this indicates that business is
1t is not yet known what
cute the road will take, but it is
Known that the narrow gauge will
parallel the Utah Southern from
Provo to this city at least, if not TO.
! greater distance. The lower
branch of the Denver and RiC
Irande road is now at Ouray, Colo
ado, some distance from the south
EASTERN border of this territory. Ii
his line is the one which is TO bt
brought to Salt Lake, as is a,
PRESENT contemplated. it viii cul
cross into u tab in a northwesterly
direction through the Salina Pass,
md will follow down the Sewer
River into Sanpete Valley, thence
nto Pleasant Valley, down the
spanish Fork Canyon through
pringyille, and double the Utah
from Provo to this city
his is one route; the other brancL
f the road is now being pushed
rom Leadville through the Gunni-
on country into Colorado, and if il
e determined to bring this line to
alt Lake, it Will probably be ex-
ended i'll the most direct line posi-
lie to the Pleasant Valley coal |
eldS, thence down Spanish Fork
'anyon to this city as above de-
cribed. In this event, it is not I'M
kelly that the branch which is
to go through Salina Pass
nil turn III q southwestern direc-
ION and run into the southern part |
f California to the Pacific Ocean.
10Th branches are being pushed |
head with great vigor, and means are
lmOst as plentiful as water; hence.
here Can be no danger OF a failure
nd the very best authority gives II |
5 matured determination to bring
lie of the branches to this city. /,
J booked to reach here within tn, |
ext twelve or fifteen months. The |
act that the road will come through |
leaSant Valley is sufficient proof I
nat the Utah and Pleasant Valley /
has or will become the |
of the Denver and Rio
-rande Company, and that the Utah
BAD from the point where first
cached by the Denver line, will be
ushed on from Provo to this city.
he purchase of the Pleasant Val
y line gives to the new company
Ontrol of some of the finest coal /
elds, both for fire and for coking,
l the whole territory, and will
ring coal, with the competition,
own to minimum figure. 1t prac-
cally solves the coal question for
alt Lake City.
In this connection it is as well to