The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-14
THE BROADGAUGING.
Solid Trains from Denver to Salt
Lake in % Hours.
FINEST TRAINS IN THE WORLD.
Tintic will Produce as Much Ore as Leadville
and Aspen-Thinks Well of Salt
Real Estate.

Colorado Coal and Iron company, a cor
poratiCn with resources so vast that it con
trolls the politics and dictates the legisla
ton for that state, is in the city
Mr.. Rockwell has spent twenty -tiv
years in Colorado and while attending t.
his duties as corporation lawyer does ex
tensive travelling. He is an intelligen
observer, knows Colorado like book, ant
while be believes in Colorado he has grea
faith in Utah and Utah to him is Salt Lake
and that which is tributary to it.
"They are running beautiful trains OF
the Rio Grande Western" he said to TIL
HERALD reporter.
The broad gauge track is smooth, laii
with 65-pound steel rails, with the shor
curves and heavy grades cut out. Each cal
has smoking apartment, the platform:
are lighted, and it is the first train l saw
outside of the Pennsylvania Central lin
lieu where man can sit and read as com
1ortably as he can in his own parlor.
The Denver 81 Rio Grande have re-
ceived some of their new cars fitted up in
royal style, and | understand that they will
run a solid train from Denver to Salt
Lake, making the distance in about twenty
, ohfOreliOuIS3- six uOuCS dt
present. The broad gauge iron is
laid from point near Red Cliff,
lew miles west of Leadv1lle. to within a
point about fourteen miles cast of Grand
junction, and from Denver to point about
eighteen miles east of Leadyille. A few
miles west of Leadville, they have left the
old track and graded a new line almost on
water level 10 The eastern approach OF
the tunnel From the western approach
they have graded a new line nearly all the
way 10 point just below Red Cliff, taking
out all the heavy grades and curvatures anC
In some places turning the stream by cuts
through the mountains into other valleys
Very heavy work has been done
at this point, and it is the
work between Red Cliff and Leadville
and the tunnel through tennessee pass that
delays the road In about six weeks broad
gagged trains will be running from Denver
TO Salt Lake. There has been no expense
spared on the roadbed or rolling stock tt
make this the finest equipped trunk line tt
the west, it will equal anything on the
Pennsylvania or New York Central.
with the advent OF this trunk line
which shortens the distance. amazingly, be
tween Denver and Salt Lake, l see no rea
son why Salt Lake should not enter upor
an era of wonderful prosperity.
II met day Ed. O'Neil who has been
pioneer in the smelling business and was
twelve years in charge of Senator Hills
smelling works and separating plant, in
Gllpin county, COL, and one of the best
posted men in the practical treat
ment of ores to be found in the
west. He has been here a month
using the hot springs for rheumatism He
is now completing a smelling plant at
Trinidad and has been looking over the
mineral resources of Utah. He told me
to-day that the Tintic district, as soon as
1T can be opened more extensively, will
undoubtedly produce as much ore as
Leadville and Asper combind, and this is
tonnage of about thirteen thousand tons
q week Ihave the greatest confidence in
Mr.. CNeiPs Judgment as he has passed
his ,.ife in the mountains of Colorado and
is conservative in views. l also met c. G.
3lley, an old Georgetown Clear Greek
county, miner, who spent many years in
Colorado as mining manager, aud who
has been In all parts of your territory
He tells me that the views in many places
are of enormous size and show vast quaint
ties OF ore, the character and quality OF
which equal auyh had every seen; upon
the judgment OF this man the utmost con
tidence can be placed. He has mad years and
years of experience.
II was informed the other day that the
Burlington was coming this way, but that
their strike had delayed them so that it will
be probably anotherJyear before they get
in. They, however, nave several engineer
ing parties in the field and are securing
the coal and looking westward.
THE Colorado Midland, which now runs
from Denver to Aspen, has joined the
Denver & Rio Grande in building a con.
Meeting link between Rife Creek and
Grand Junction. This means that they
will be in the field of Utah as a competitor
for freight, as soon as the road is broad
gagged. The Midland controls vast fields
of the finest coking coal in America,
equal to anything in Connellsville
and have large plant of coking furnaces
at Cardiff, near Glenwood Springs They
are seeking an entrance into this market
for their coke and their sunshine domes
tic COAL the superior of all domestic coal in
Colorado. They will lay down mere bet
ter class of domestic coal than has ever
been in the market, and be in direct com
petition with Rock Springs coal brought in
by the Union Pacific. These several cor
porations brought in by the oad-gauging
of the Rio Grande Western, will necessar-
lily stimulate the production of ore and will
naturally create readjustment of freight
rates from Salt Lake to the Denver and
Pueblo shelters; and in the two towns ex-
lst the largest smelling plants in the world.
lower freight rates on ore to Denver and
the enormous production of ore from this
locality, will bring this market in competi-
ton with the home shelters, these large