The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25
mated that there not over forty tons of

quartermaSterS offices at the Fort the
road branches in two other directions. one
up Red Butte cafion and the other across
country to Emigration canon and Wagner's
brewery. After brief stay at the Fort,
Just long enough to witness the daily drill
at O'Clock, we made for the quarries a
RED BUTTE CANYON,
a distance of couple of miles. This por-
ton OF the road is perhaps the heaviest
grade of all, and might offer some difficult
ties in operation but for the happy feature
that the cars invariably go up empty and
descend loaded. There is no thoroughfare
through Red Butte canon, but it leads by
comparatively easy ways into the high
mountains north of the dity, giving access
to great variety of deposits of a mineral
character. In the short stretch from the
hot springs to Red Butte canon there are
valuable stores of pure silica, iron ores,
ochres, black, gray and variegated marbles,
photographic stone, brick clays in great
variety, fire clay, fire stone, tale, many
kinds of valuable building stone, thermal
springs of great Importance and many
other matters of unknown value There
are indications of coal, silver and lead and
rumors of gold, but there are such num-
Der of deposits of obvious value and
extent that we can afford to leave out
of the category all that is uncertain
The Salt Lake & Fort Douglas road
plunges right into the heart of these hills,
and has already opened up several of these
possibilities. We believe Mr.. Young owns
several sections of the land in Red Butte
caflon. Salt Lake city and the Fort are
supplied with nearly all their building
stone from the Red Butte quarries, and
the Supply company connected with the
line has already six or seven de-
pots established for its delivery at va
rious points. The products of the quarries
includes rubble footing and dimension
rock of fine soft sandstone, of salmon hue
very familiar to our citizens, who have
seen it in nearly all our structures since
building began in the city. 1t is probable
also that the large deposits of brick clay
in this canon will be utilized ere long as it
is especially valuable on account of its fine
red color. The Salt Lake glass works pur-
chased several carloads of the fire stone,
as they had found by experiment that it
was suitable for making the benches for
their pots and for use in other ways. The
photographic rstone found close by in in
exhaustible quantities has the appearance
of being equal 10 the finest Bavarian and
it is quite possible may prove to be as sat
isfactory as the German II so, it is more
valuable than silver mine, as the demand
for 10 -, =.
far greater than ever before, while every
pound that is used has to be imported from
abroad. Leaving this important district,
we spin down the canyon at a lively rate
and in few minutes are agaiu at the
branches of the road near the Fort We
now take a pleasant run Of mile across
the bench, aud sweeping around a grace
full curve find ourselves stopped at the
California Brewery near the mouth of
EMIGRATION CANTON.
1t was now high noon, for we had stopped
to sketch or to take photograph at nearly
every turn in the road, besides interview
ing every man, woman and child we met,
which had so engrossed US that we had no
idea how hungry we were until the brew
cry came il sight. While enjoying the
beaming hospitality of the genial WAGNER,
we listened to a few statistics of the
amount of traffic the road will find per
annum with the brewery.
To begin with, he requires a million and
a half pounds of coal and two hundred
tons Of coke year for his furnaces; then
he brings in at least fifty carloads of bar
ley and as many more carloads of empty
kegs and bottles. Add to this his hops and
freights, and the total in
ward traffic foots up to some four and
half million pounds per an mum.
Emigration canon is historical as being
the pass from which emerged in 1917 the
first of the pioneers to gaze upon the valley
and the site of the future city. For some
years, it continued to be the entrance way
to the valley until the more direct route |
through Parleys canon was opened
THE MILL CREEK BRANCH.
This route winds for several miles along |
the badks of the Salt Lake and |
Jordan canal, along which the |
road purchased a right of way
from the city. The character of the coun-
try, hereabo1ts, is as pastoral and serene |
as the other branches are mountainous and |
wild. For a couple of miles the way is
through farms and meadows, the first stop
page being at the old paper mill in Sugar
House ward, now enlarged and remodeled |
into a ground house, for the Salt |
Lake & Eastern, whose line |
here branches off, running past |
the penitentiary to Parley's canon. The
Salt Lake & Fort Douglas continues south
ward as though to pass through all the
thriving farming settlements on the cas-
Tern side Of the valley, when it suddenly
comes to an end at nowhere" In this |
.hree and a half mile run, however, there
are several tell-tale indications of the
'eason why the road went no farther at the
lime it was built. Land owners along the
quite more than once compelled the build
ers to swerve for several rods from their
inc, making awkward kinks IN the road,
which tell to every passenger that at those
points the ground is owned by a nossback
Who has not yet been oYertaken by the
spirit of progress and development
N the neighborhood of this city there were
lot many who hindered the course of the
Dad. On the contrary, many instances of
generosity and hearty welcome marked the
acquisition of rights of way. But when
'Ome of the people of these settlements
rev exorbitant in their price of passage,
hey put so severe check on the line that
Mr. Young thought he wonld give them
line to think over whether that was true
to an enterprise that was GER
ainly calculated to do as much good to
hem as it would to himself. From what