The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-04
SANPETE RAILROADS
As Viewed by a Correspondent
In His Rounds.
THE RIO GRANDE ROUTE,
The Sanpete Vallry RailrOad-The Union
Pacific Making Surveys-0ther Inter
esting Railroad News.
THE RIO GRANDE ROUTE,

SANPETE COUNTY, Oct. !, 1850 Special
correspondence of The HERALD. The air
is heavy hereabouts with railways in fact
and projected 1t seems as though one
company wat shes the movements OF an
other. A company Of surveyors is dis
patched for projected line, and as soon as
competitor is in the field all is excite
ment Your readers have doubtless heard
that the Sanpete valley railway IS setting
its face for tle capital of Sanpete. RumOr
has it that the Rio Grande Western is com
ing to the top of the divide between Thistle
valley and this valley.
On business bent visited the north end
of this county, and to ascertain facts OF a
desired through railway and while the
good people of Fairview were measurably
glad of the Rio Grande surveyors being in
the field, there was a large piece of the
spice of railway uncertainties mingling
with their hope. The hope of the F'airview
people is that the Rio Grande will come,
for if the Sanpete valley railway is ex-
tended to Manti, two roads would not pay
in this county, unless the objective point of
a competing road is the coast.
/ have learned that the Rio Grande has
about concluded to wait the advent of
another spring before determining. In the
meantime the people of Nephi are aroused
lest the important feeder, the Sanpete val
ley railway, should be annihilated by the
Little Giant and Little Chicago lose a
railway plum.
Notwithstanding the ebbing and flowing
of railway movements, magnates like the
Rio Grande Western are slow to move into
new fields unless the prospects of dividends
,1o dos
of the Rio Grande is food for thought. The
extension of the Sanpete Valley railway
must yet give pause to the directors in
England who have gazed for years on
blank bank account, but who being here
must proceed. To recede is a total loss;
to go on is gain every way, and should the
Rio Grande, said to be consolidated with
the Midland, come, it would find the centre |
of the valley occupied by road which if not |
gigantic, has one vital force to push ahead. |
The people of this county are slow to re !
aliZe the advantages of railroad and tele- |
phone connections, and that u liberal bonus
is frequently of vast and material CONNER
cial and financial Importance.
The Sanpete vail y railroad is forging
ahead. Contracts for grading are in order
to-day. She has knocked at the municipal
doors OF Ephraim and Manti, and being the
first and only one to knock, they have gra-
ciously said come in"
1t would seem from the obtuseness of !
some as If it would be pleasing to relegate
us TO the status Of twenty years ago Not
q sod would they turn or transfer a scraper
OF dirt unless there was an immediate dol
lar in sight. The scream of the iron horse !
would awake the whole valley from its ap-
parent Rip Van Wrinkle sleep.
was indeed proud of some of Little Chi {
cago's" liberal-minded men who proclaim /
upon the house top the bonus they will /
give in money and land if the Rio Grande I
Western will come to their borders.
Sanpete cannot afford to be isolated The /
Union Pacific is now surveying from Juab /
to cup the SEWER" via GunnisOn, seeking !
the immense resources of this southern .
strip. The Rio Grande would hardly |
parallel a road or roads on this desirable I,
route, now obviously in her way to any
point she may desire south and to the
coast.
The enterprising men of Nephi have
promised Mount Pleasant if the latter will
cooperate with them, to bring the Denver |
& Rio Grandc to that city, that the Denver
& Rio Grande will diverge somewhere be- /
tween Fountain Green and Moroni, pene-
trate their city, pierce Spring City, and by
way of Pigeon Hollow reach Ephrdim, /
thus leaving Moroni out in the cold. This
is highly predetermined. Suffice it to say it
viii be for US to get up on stills and look
over some petty localisms, and see where
the greatest good to the greatest number
can be done, lest in our unGuar6 @ eager
ness we iniure the whole county, and the
railway magnates wait some large plums
from the towns to be benefited by their
coming. d. c.
Parents should be careful that their chill
dren do not contract colds during the fall
or early winter months. Such colds weak