Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-30
BUSINESS AND MINING NOTES.
Railroad ,COnsolidatiOn-Th II
Lines In Independent Hands
Mines and Mining.

1t appears that long lease of the Ore
gon Railroad & Navigation Company's
line made to the Union Pacific Railroad
Company, has secured to the latter an
Independent connection with tide water
on the Pacific. In the multiplication of
trans.continental lines, the necessity of
having each Of them under the control OF
single corporation is apparent. The
Southern Pacific, both by its Independent
line and over the Central and d. & r. G.
lines, can dispense with the Union Pa
cifc and reach the Atlantic Coast. The
former, if not the better half of the Cen
trail and Pacific united line, has now its
own through line and stands on its own
bottom. Competition is the life OF trade.
The Burlington q Quincy and North
western roads are feeling and pushing
their way westward, to stop only when
they reach tide water on the blue Pacific.
Waiting mining camps and future town
sites will welcome the approach OF the
locomotive bearing the promise and pos
sibility Of wonderful development on
this western side OF the continent during
the next ten years.
Now is the time for adventurous and
capable men, laborers and capitalists, to
precede the railway and hold the forts OF
material advantage.
The mineral resources OF Great Britain
are the foundations of her commercial
greatness. The quantity and quality of
our mineral veins and deposits are far in
excess of hers, and they are largely I'M
disturbed and open to newcomers. The
vast mineral country West OF the Rocky
Mountains is to be the home OF public
and private workshops exceeding in mag
nitude any that have yet been established
in this country.
Pittsburg and Birmingham will be du-
plicated in connection with our iron de-
posts and coal fields, and from Puget
Sound to the Gull OF California, varied
and vast industries will fill the land with
music.
Foremost among the industrial States,
Utah, redeemed and dsenthralled, will
hail the coming era OF development and
take the lead in the onward movement.
Mr.. Lewis Martin, one of Utah's re-
liable and successful mining men, has re-
Gently returned from the C9ur d'Alene
country, where he has effected the sale
OF the Gold Hunter mine, heretofore
owned by himself and others, for 800, OOO
He holds other mines under bond from
which great returns are expected. There
are properties in that country, claimed
and located within two years, for which
hall a million OF dollars can be obtained
Minnesota capitalists bought OF Mr.. Mar
tin. The veins in the portion Of country
where Mr.. Martin is operating
about thirty miles from Murray on
the Northern Pacific Railway, are large
carrying gold, silver and lead, and re-
quire concentrating. The topography of
the country admirably adapts its explor-
alton by means OF tunnels. Branch
railways are pushing their way into the
mining districts. Water-power is album
dant, timber plentiful, the climate
warmer than in Montana The Gloom"
has Just commenced there, but next sum
mer is expected to see it at its flood. As
in other directions, capitalists are making
inquiries for promising properties, and
fortunes will be made in selling and
working mines in that upper country.
Utah men, and those formerly operating
here in professional, mining and business
capacities, are plentiful in that rich and
growing district.