, 1888-08-10
1T is COMING.
The Illinois Central Under a Local
Name.
Cheyenne Made the Headquarters
of the Company.
An Official Meeting Resolutions
700 Men at Work.

though IL now runs as lar westward as
Sioux City, strange to say is coming into
the territory from the West, is NOV
ing in a decided manner.
A certificate of the proceedings of a
meeting held at Green River on Saturday
for the purpose of declaring for an extern
sion Of powers and which was filed in the
office of Secretary Shannon yesterday, in
dictates very clearly what the company
proposes to do.
The meeting alluded to was called in
due form of law. and held under the pro-
visions of the law of Wyoming on that
subject. Every single dollar of the com
pany's stock was represented, and every
stakeholder was present either in person
or by proxy, and although the fact that a
meeting was to be held seems not to have
been very generally heralded abroad, vet
one reason for this can perhaps be found
in the fact disclosed in the foregoing reso-
lutions-namely that the stockholders
proposed to make Cheyenne the head
quarters and principal business place of
the company in preference TO Green River
or any of the other towns in Wyoming
West of this city. 1t may be said here as
will be seen by a perusal of the certificate
that Cheyenne is not only the principal
business place of the company in Wyo-
ming, but there is no branch office located
in this territory. and the only branch
offices there are as indicated in the c%ertifi-
cate, are New York City and Ogden.
The following are the resolutions
adopted at the meeting alluded to relat-
ing to the routes and branches of the
road, although other resolutions not here
given because of their length relate to the
principal place of business and other mat
tiers:
ReSolUed, That the certificate of incor-
poration Of the Wyoming & Eastern
Railway company be amended so as to
extend the business of the company and
to extend the length OF the proposed line
of railway and enlarge its powers so that
the main line. of said railway shall extend
entirely across the territory of Wyoming,
commencing at the eastern terminus Of
the proposed line of railway OF the Salt
Lake Valley and the Eastern Railway
company at or in the vicinity of the
mouth OF Twin creek, on the boundary
line between the territories of Utah and
Wyoming, running thence easterly by
the most practical route to a point in the
valley of Horn Fork, in township 20 n,
r ll6 W, in Uinta county, Wyoming Ter
ritory; thence e~asterly and northeasterly
by way of South pass and the valley Of
the Sweetwater and North Platte river to
the old Fort Fetterman military reserva-
ton; thence southeasterly to the eastern
boundary line OF the territory Of Wyo-
ming, between AID and Add parallels of
north latitude; being of the estimated
length Of 425 miles, and passing through
the counties of Uinta, Sweetwater, FIRE.
mont, Carbon, Nationa, Albany, Con-
verse and Laramie.
Also for a branch line of railroad from
a point in the vicinity of independence
rock, southwark through the county of
Carbon for a distance of fifty miles.
Also for a branch railroad from a point
in the valley of Sweetwater river to the
northern boundary OF the territory of
Wyoming.
Also for such branches from points on
main line Of the said railroad within the
county of Uinta, northward to such points
as the board of trustees shall hereafter
at any time fix and designate by resolution
of said board of trustees.
Also to construct. equip, control and
maintain a line of telegraph through the
entire length of said railroad and branches
thereof and elsewhere in the territory of
Wyoming.
The capital stock of this company is
fixed at $40, 0OO, 900. width is divided
into 100, 900 shares at 800 each, and the
present board of trustees is composed of
James D. Hegus, Donald Mclean and
William r. Jones. Several Of the stock
holders of the company reside in Chicago,
some even farther East, and one of them
is a banker at Salt Lake City.
That this company (which wellintormed
parties say is simply the Illinois Central I'M
der another name) means business is ute
apparent from the steps being taken at
this time, and it is a fact that has been
known to THE LEADER at least for some-
time that they now have a large force Of
men at work on a tunnel near a stream
known as Horn fork, one of the principal
tributaries of Green river and some forty
miles in nearly a northeasterly direction
from Evanston, Wyo., and another in the
Sweetwatcr country some fifty miles or so
northwesterly from Green River. There
are in all some 700 men now at work be-
sides a corps of engineers who are looking
up routes, etc, between the two points
and elsewhere in the western portion of
the territory.
That this road is coming, and from the
West at that, there is no doubt, and when