Omaha daily bee., 1881-08-29
UTAH MATTERS.
How Things are Thriving in
That Section,
What the Agricultural Pros
poets Seem to Be.
The Mining Interest and Notes of
n General Character.

correspondence OF the Omaha Bee.
OGDEN, Utah, August 25.-Govcrn
or Murray has very wisely taken step
toward having the resources of Utal
displayed at the International Cotton
Exhibition, to be held al Atlanta
Georgia, in October. In connection
with this subject he has issued tn,
following:
1t has been suggested that an exhi
bltIon of the mineral resources of the
territory be made ut the state fair OF
Nebraska, to be held at Omaha, Sop.
TENDER 18th, 1881. To further these
views, Geo. A. Scott, Esq, Joab Law
renee, Esq, M. Saughnossy, Esq.
Hon. VIII. Hooper and +. Hanauer,
Esq, are requested TO take such steps
as will best tend to collect and make
creditable expositions of Utah's varied
and rich products.
Eli II. MURRAY,
Governor of Utah.
The gentlemen named for that pur-
pose, we presume, will take pride in
making the display at the Nebraska
state fair worthy so great a territory
as Utah, and we are sure that such an
exhibition would add very much in.
terest to the fair. If they could
transplant some of the heavily Ia
dened fruit trees, now with limbs
bent to the ground with ripeninp
fruit, to your fair grounds, visitors
would stand amazed at the great fruit
age. Never have we seen the equal,
even in the most favored fruit ~locali-
ties OF the country.
h fruit is now fast ripcning, and
being of fine flavor, readily commands
a market for shipment to the adioin-
ing states and territories. The ex-
press CARS on all the roads leading
from Ogden are daily crowded with
fruit being sent away. We are now
shipping from Ogden daily an average
of three to five car loads of fruit, |
while potatoes go out at the rate of
from four to twelve cars per day. AS
many as n dozen car loads of pota-
toes have been sent m one day from
here to Denver alone, and the cry
comes v e from favored Nebraska
for this class of tubers. The crop is
immense and good this seasons; in fact
every class of crops in this great basin
Is unusually prolific. We will not
even except the crop of new RAILWAYS
planned and being staked out in Utah.
This is n class of productions which
does not come under the head of cere-
ais, but the growth is such that new
shoots spring up at all seasons of the
year.
We have told your readers of the
Denver & Rio Grande, with it's 2 $50
miles Planned in Utah. This COM
pany is still reaching out for more
territory, and the lack of surveyors
AL',r laoltins.
ALL who could run a compass and es.
Innate grades and fills, have Been Sc.
cured by this company and other. com.
interests. The Union Pacific
has their engineers in all the a~lyaila.
BILE passes and canyons Plain{, and c
are being mappedl out.
New ventures by this company seem :,
TO spring up as if by maggie and we :,
doubt if even the managefs of the Il
company are sure of the Workings of t
their plans. 1t is such a. great game g
Of chess, in which the players stake !
and the figuges are ponder -
ous tracks, great fills, cuts, bridges u
md trains, that the interest of the h
SPECTATORS become increased as one n
the players checkmates this one. >,
distances that, and first reaches the
KING row. In this special field new
are appearing and taking part
n the great game. SO many roads fc
a been mapped out across Utah D
gong east and west that none but the
most attentive can keep pace with m
The list. The Utah & Wyoming is On
to impose an obstacle to the NJ
oregon short line, running from e
Granger, on the Union Pacific, to Il
oregon. We have various rumors of la
he situation, but no one is positive M
to the matter. The latest enter bl
rise Is that of a line from Corinne. eV
n the Central Pacific, twenty-five o.
niles west of Ogden, to an eastern III
on the Missouri. One ST
'arty OF surveyors are working west Is
rom fankton, Dakota, to meet an
ther corps moving east from South 81
'ass, while the third party is on the on
QUITE from Corinne to South Pass d.
he survey is to be completed by No ov
ember LIST, and the road of about 900 wa
liles IN length, to be pushed as fast tn
: possible, commencing next spring. ma
ms route is to pass from Corinne tn
trough the South Pass via the coal
elds on HAMS Fork, thence down tn.
irough Sweetwater to the north fork tri
the Platte for about one hundred br
liles, and crossing over to the head int
alters OF the Niobrara river, thence an
, fankton, to a connection with the thu
hlcago d Northwestern. The grades
70 reported so easy that the road can otl
. quit Tor about o%ne-third the cost tel
the Union Pacific. This road is at
my II OF the various lines planned ira
Y the Central Pacific folks, which goo
.gregate about seven thousand miles
road to be constructed by that VIII
'mpany. Such stupendous enter. an,
Uses Is enough to amaze the world. wa'
en- IN the planning. The road from wa,
'rinne 7 o Yankton will pass through str,
le OF the most extensive coal fields ont
own These coal fields extend over fin.
large area of country, and are SO anC
eat in extent as to be marvellous. Tbi
seams range from a few feet 10 can
ariy enc hundred in thickness. At tbe
esent nearly all the coal used in \
IAN, wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Tn
sYada goes from mines owned bv nro
Q Union Pacific. The Central Paci- he
gets its supply Of about six IN -