The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-04
In RAILWAY CIRCLES.
Extensive Grading Between Park
City and Evanston.
LARGE FORCES OF MEN AT WORK.
The salt Lake, Wyoming & California Push
ing Work East and West
Other Notes.

The managers of the Salt Lake, Wyoming
& California railroad are pushing their
enterprise to completion as rapidly as pos
sible The contracts for grading between
Park city and Evanston have been let and
a large force of men with 176 teams are
now at work, the contractors having
agreed to complete this grade by December
l.. Tracklaying is to begin sometime next
month, and as soon as possible trains will
be put on between Park city and Evan
ston when coal will be laid down in the
Park at considerably lower price than are
being paid now. The survey east of this
extends to within thirty miles of the line
of the Chicago & Northwestern at Sweet
water pass.
Between Salt Lake and Park city there
are two gangs of men at work. The grade
IN EMIGRATION CANYON
is difficult, as there are three tunnels on
this route, which will take at least four
months steady work to complete. 1t is
hoped, however to have the entire track
laid and trains running within the next
five months. The longest tunnel on the
road will be $500 feet through the main
mountain range, about half way between
GuO Olu tl1lS CTOSSluS duu HdTl6y'S
crossing to Big mountains This tunnel
will make it possible to pass on to the top
at grade of lilo per cent Another
shorter tunnel will be run through Little
mountain at the head of Emigration canon,
and the third at point about midway be-
tween the other two tunnels. All OF these
tunnels will be comparatively easy as the
work will be almost entirely in sandstone.
A sample of a new electric drill has been
oil -
be as has been represented, ten more will
be ordered and the work of tunneling will
be commenced 1t is said that the new
drill is a great Improvement over com
pressed air, and that the Panama canal has
Just ordered 100 of them
WESTWARD Ho.
Contractors will put large force of men
at work near Lake Point next week, and
the grade of 165 miles to the Nevada line
will be put through with all possible speed.
A small space this side of Lake Point still
remains ungraded and will be finished
first. The injunction issued by the Utah
& Nevada railroad company still remains in
status quo and will probably not be brought
up again until the other grading is nearly
completed. The timbers for the bridge
over the Jordan have been laid on the river
bank in readiness for the bridge builders
No definite steps have yet been taken in the
matter of the location of depot as. the
managers state that they are awaiting the
development of the union depot project
The president of the new road said yester-
day that the. company expected to have
their entire line in working order from the
Nevada line to Evanston By June.
TOUR OVER THE ROUTE.
President Fulton, General Manager
Bates, Director Gardner and the chief en-
gineer of the road, leave tomorrow morn
ing for Evanston, where they will take
teams and drive over the route and locate
the stations, tanks, switches, etc, along
the entire line. The party expect to be
gone at least five days
The steel rails and portion of the rolling
stock have been ordered and will arrive
within two months. The first consignment
viii consist of ten engines and 400 freight
cars. 1t has not yet been determined how
many passenger coaches will be required
and they will be shipped with the second
CONSIGNMENT