Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-11-28
UTAH AND IDAno RaILRolD


A meeting Of the oflicsn OF tn
Salt Lake 4 Idaho railruad wA
held at the Chamber a Commerce,
yesterday.
There were present Presideu
West and Vice president Simon, O
the Chamber, and Texas Angel
president Of the company, Col
George V. Bryan, = director, Msjol
Wilkes, chief engineer and J. NJ
washburne, president Of the Wash
burne Investment company, o.
Minneapolis.
The resources Of the country to be
penetrated and the outlook for the
road were fivofably discussed and
there is every probability that the
rad will be built.
Major Wilkes stated that he had
returned from = survey Of the line
from HALEY to Rocky Bar and had
found that he could verify all the
statements he had formerly made In
regard to the immense natural re-
sources In mineral deposits, agricul-
tursl ahd timber lands, and tina, he
had, II anything, made an under
statement Of the facts. Along the
eighty miles through which the
line passes there are mines
TO be found at intervals of
every five miles. In the juno
ton Bar district there are from
ten to twelve stamp mills, some Of
them running rs high or fifty
stanips. There ie enough tile tim
Der to build road abound the earth.
In the Little Smoky district alone
there is more ore than In loo, 900
square miles in Nevada. There are
hundreds of thousands Of tons Of ore
ON the dump that cannot be mar
keted on account Of there being no
railroad. The scenery ut Twin Falls
equals that Of the Shoshone. 1t has
a perpendicular fall of 165 feet, and
with the rapids above a descent OF
l9) feet. The water power he e..
Inmates at 3O0, 900 horse power. On
Goose creek there Is 800, 900 acres
ofthe finest sagebrush land he had
ever seen.
Mr.. Washbarne said he had n
plan to boiid the road from HALEY
TO Rocky Bar, but that the objection
to 1t was that it was a short line of
eighty miles, running from q small
town and ending In the wilderness.
To give the road importance it
should be extended 10 Salt Lake.
The resources along the line were
the greatest he had ever seen. The
timber was unsurpassed, better than
the forests Of Michigan, Wisconsin
and Minnesota. 1t is mostly hal-
sam fir, as thick as the hair on a
dogs blck, and makes four ties to
a tree. Ii is also sound, there
scarcely being a tree rotten at the
heart. he gaL 81 upon waving fields
of grain down the south Boise.
Further up the timber is heavier,
being adapted for milling purposes.
Between HALEY and junction Bar
there are 1000 mines opened. King
Of the West and the Star contain
Na>t DOufcS vi orc. DtlleNc.C
said he, 'that the King Of the West
has enough ore 10 put out 500 tons q
day, all CT which will go over $50 q
ton. The Little Smoky mining
can furnish 1000 tons a day.
This ore could he shipped 10 Salt
Lake for S q ton and 1t would give
the smelters all they could do for
one hundred years. The Star has
a mountain of ore. Up the
Big Smoky there is district equal |
ly rs productive.
Camas No. . is the finest vein OF
ore he had ever seen. an eight foot |
vein Of ore continuing down six
hundred feet. This gold belt ex.
tends two miles. II this road comes
10 Salt Lake il will have an empire |
10 draw from as II Is naturally tribu-
tsry TO this city.
The Atlantic camps have $50, 900
tons Of ore on the dump, abundantly |
rich, and some Of IL running over i
ESQ ton,