Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-13
RAILWAY NOTES.

Ahe Line Oh the New kOad-m lining
Interests of the Section.
MIR. 6. A. Smith, of this city, recently
made trip through the southern part of
Utah and Nevada over the line of the
proposed extension of the Utah Central.
He is a practical mining man and has
been prospecting along the route of the
road. AS a result of his investigations
he has bonded group of fine anthony
mines. He speaks in very enthusiastic
terms of the valuable mining interests
which lie in the territory through which
the line passes, and is very firm in the
belief that it's opening will greatly inn
prove the commerce and the manufactures
of this section.
The ore from the mines which he has
discovered contains, so he states, over so
per cent. of antimony and will work to so
per cent. Itcan be brought to this city at
a cost of SIS per ton. The mines are
bonded in the interest of DR.. r. HI.
Chase, of Boston, Mass. He proposes to
establish reduction works here to handle
the ore as soon as the new road is open.
Hon. Richard A. Rising, of Ne
vada, who recently made visit to this
city, said that the people of bis section
looked upon the building of at least one
new railroad to this city as a forgone
conclusion. The route had been sur
veyed. The news had given consider
able impetus to the growth of Phoebe.
aud mining interests of all kinds were
looking up.
The San Francisco Bulletin briefly
states the reasons for the building of the
Utah extension as follows:
The extension south to Barstow is
chiefly to open a valuable coal deposit
southwest of Phoebe, Nevada. It is cal
culated that this coal would be of great
value to the. Southern Pacific and Cali
fornia Central railways for operating ex-
penses, as we'll as to the growing popu-
lation of Los Angeles, and as an inde-
pendent route into Southern California
for winter tourists the road would serve
a good purpose.
Concerning the second nesInoes, which
is generally believed to backed
by the Gould Interest," InT ~ Salt
and engineers, who it was UNDER
stood some time ago were here in the
interest of an eastern railway company,
which was desirous Of purchasing either
the whole of, or an interest in, the Salt
Lake, Wyoming and California railway,
have returned to Salt Lake, having been
as far over the road as it was deemed
necessary to 60 either to prove or dis
prove the assertions made by the pro-
jectors as to the grade, short distance,
etc. While no official report has yet
been made, and while, as usual with
railway men, application to the company
yesterday for information " as refused, it
is understood-and it comes from q
very reliable source-that the examina-
ton made by the experts proved
that there had been no misrepre-
sentation on the part of the Salt Lakers.
In some cases a slight variance was no.
ticed, but it was in favor of our local
men rather than against them, and it
was stated that the examination had
been very complete and was quite salts
factory. Asked as to when an official re-
port would be ready for the public, Mr..
Fenton said: 'Not for at least ten days
yet. Moves involving "a, 900, 900 or moro
cannot be closed up in day nor week"
In answer to the query as to who was
behind the syndicate, no satisfactory re-
ply was made, but the insinuation that
the Union Pacific had a finger in the pie
was stoutly denied. The power behind
the throne will probably be visible in a
short time.
The RailaUay Age locates the three par
ties OF surveyors known to be at work on
the new line as follows:
Three parties are in the field making
preliminary surveys for the line of the
Utah, Nevada and California. One be-
tween Manti and Beaver, one between
Beaver and Cedar City, and the other be-
tween st. George and California. One
route has been surveyed up the Sewer
river, and crossing into Parowan valley
through Fremont's pass, another via
Buckskin cafion into Parowan, while q
third left the Sewer river, going west
through Clear Greek csflon via Cove
creek and Beaver, into Parowan valley.