, 1888-11-27
WYOMING & EASTERN
The Company Which Purposes
Building Across the Territory.
Principal Office of the Corporation
to be Located in Cheyenne.
Proof that Willard r. Jones has
Made Measurements.

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west OF Fort Fetterman, and incidentally
mentioned that Jas. d. Negus, treasurer
of the company, was its field manager. In
due course of events the article met the
eye of Willard h. Jones, one of the trus'
tees of the corporation. In an interview
with a reporter for the Rawlins Journal
he, with an air of injured innocence, We
hemently denied that Mr.. Negus was in
any way connected with the company, and
ever affirmed that he had not the pleas
ure of Mr.. Negus' acquaintance.
Just why Mr.. Jones chose to pervert
the facts in the case are not known to de-
ponent, but it is certain that he DELHI
erately misstated matters to the Journal
representative.
Last August the board of directors for
the Wyoming & Eastern railway held a
business meeting at Green River. The
proceedings of that session have just been
made public, a duly attested copy of the
minutes having been filed for record at
the office of the county clerk here yester-
day. Appended are excerpts from the
journal of the August meeting OF the
Wyoming and Eastern trustees;
'RcSolued, That the certificate Of in
corporation OF the Wyoming & Eastern
railway company be amended SO as to ex-
tend the business of the company and ex-
tend the lenghth of its proposed line of
railway and enlarge its powers so that the
main line of said railway shall extend en-
tirely across the territory of Wyoming,
commencing at the eastern terminus of
the proposed line OF railway of the Salt
Lake Valley & Eastern company, at, or
in the vicinity of the mouth of Twin
| creek, on the boundary line between tle
territories of Wyoming and Utah, and
ranging thence e~asterly by the most prac-
teal route to a point in the valley of
Hams Fork, in Uinta county, thence
e~asterly and northerly by way of South
Pass and the valleys of the Sweetwater
and North Platte rivers to old Fort Fet-
terman military reservation; thence south
erly to the eastern boundary line Of the
territory of Wyoming, between the 42nd
and 43d parallels of north latitude being
| of the estimated length of 425 miles and
passing through the counties OF Uinta,
Sweetwater, Fremont, Carbon, Natrona,
Albany, Converse and Laramie; also for
a branch line of railroad from a point at
or in the vicinity of Independence rock,
southwark through the county OF Carbon
for a distance fifty miles.
THE number OF trustees to manage the
affairs of the corporation for the succeed
ing year shall be three, and their names
are James D. Negus, Donald Mclean
and Willard r. Jones.
THE name of the town and county in
which the operations OF said corporation
shall be carried on is Cheyenne, Laramie
county. and the said Company may
establish offices in the cities of Ogden and
New York"
Willard r. Jones may be postmaster at
constructing Railways on paper, and
again, he may be an indefatigable and
far seeing capitalist, but when he pre-
sumes to question the truth of statements
in these columns, he will sooner or later
find himself I'm de soup" THE LEADER
may occasionally err, but in matters of
this kind it is especially careful to confine
itself to the undressed truth. Jones
statements to the Rawlins journal are
clearly disproven by the foregoing resolu-
tons.
The Wyoming and Eastern, by the
way, places its capital stock at $40, 600, 900.
The amount which has already been paid
into the treasury is SIC, $50, and its
stated liabilities are $4,000. The COM
pany has done considerable grading in
the S~weetwater valley. In traversing this
county the line will pass near Rawhide
Buttes. In speaking of the proposed
road the Sioux City Tribune of the 2lst
says
Representatives Of the proposed railway
line from Sioux City to Ogden and Salt
Lake City are in town to-day visiting
prominent business men and looking over
the interests of the city. The gentlemen
are greatly pleased with Sioux City, and
say their road has made no mistake in
designating this point as their eastern ter
minus. In speaking of Their road one of
the representatives said: ''The line will
be built for an absolute certainty, and
work will be commenced as early in the
spring as practicable. The line is not a
branch Of any system, but is an ~independ-
ent route
"Will you have the line completed in
two years, as reported2'
Eyes, better han that; | think that
eighteen months from the time of doing
the first grading will SEQ the line COM
pleted and fully equipped. The road, as
surveyed. will run through the canyon
pass directly for Ogden and Salt Lake
City. This is the whole scheme in a nut
shell, and unless something unfortunate
should intervene that is the way the line
will be built. Oh, no. There is no doubt