The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-03
THE NORTHERN ROAD.
The Prospectus as Shown to the
Merchants Yesterday.
THE STOCK EXCHANGE LIVELY.
The Realty Sales Of Yesterday Mining News
Notes.-The Real Estate Exchange
this Morning.

The committee appointed at the meeting
of the business men held on Monday eve
ming for the purpose of discussing the pro-
posed Utah & Idaho railroad, met yester-
day afternoon, and after fortifying them
selves with all the facts obtainable they
started out and opened the siege. In &C
cordance with the request made at the
meeting, the gentlemen who represent the
Idaho end of the line presented the follow
ing brief prospectus of the Salt Lake, Hal
ley & Puget Sound railroad, as the road is
known in Idaho:
THE PROSPECTUS.
For the geographical location, route,
grade, curvature, ETC., please see engi-
neer's map hereto attached.
The present terminus of the road is at
junction Bar, Elmore county, Idaho sixty
miles northeast from Boise city.
junction Bar is situated at the edge of
the heavy timber which extends contlnu-
ously to the Pacific coast. This will be the
shipping point for at least three hundred
million feet of pine lumber and for the
mines Of Rocky Bar, Atlanta and vicinity,
where there are 250, 600 tons of ores on the
dumps of this district awaiting railroad
transportation.
Extending easterly from this point for
twenty miles, and for many miles on either
side OF the track, is magnificent forest Of
tie and mining timber, an ineXhauStible
supply.
From Junction Bar to Haley eighty -one
miles there is continuous mineral belt
where numbers of mines are now opened
and shipping. Many more are unable to
ship at the present cost of transportation
but will become large shippers of rich ores
to the shelters at Salt Lake.
The agricultural lands which will be i'm
mediately contiguous to this section of the
line will exceed five hundred thousand
acres, including the great Camas prairie,
with an abundance of water to irrigate
these lands.
AT Worswick, IS Hot springs, midway be-
tween junction Bar and Haley, there are
seventy eight distinct springs, on one acre
| of ground, close to the line. The tempera-
ture ranges from l45 to l9l degrees.
Large game and fish being plentiful in
this vicinity, this will become the head
| quarters of the sportsman's paradise
Haley Hot springs, one mile and half
from Haley, has now beautiful hotel,
costing about seventy five thousand dol
] lars and is now a well known and Justly
! popular resort.
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river, is sufficient to concentrate all the
ores Of the great Camas gold belt, situated
ten miles west of Haley on the line of this
DAD.
Haley is an enterprising town of about
! eighteen hundred lnha Oitants and is the
shipping point for the ores OF many mining
/ districts, not contiguous TO this line. From
Haley the line extends due south on the
east bank of Wood river, through fertile
IQ.al1
! of Logan county, population about twelve
hundred) and the shipping point for those
celebrated mines. the Minnie Moore, Queen
Of the Hills, the Relief and many others OF
less magnitude.
From Bellevue southwardly the line
passes through fertile and populous val
ley, fifteen miles, thence through fertile
but thinly settled valley to the town oil
Shoshone, on the Oregon Short Line, popu
lation aoout eight hundred, thence souti
across high plateau to Snake river, at o.
near Shoshone and Twin falls. These fall!
are situated two miles apart and are pro
nounced by tourists to be more grand an(
beautiful than Niagara and will attrac
sightseers from all parts of the world
The line then crosses the great Snake
River valley to the mouth of Goose creek
distance of thirty miles. This valley
east and west of the line, contains not les
l.
gable land, very smooth and well adaptet
to cultivation, and with irrigation viii pro
duce grapes and fruits of all kinds, cereals
vegetables and grasses of great size an
abundance. Up Goose creek the line run
twenty -five miles through valley contain
ing three hundred thousand acres of wei
watered and fertile land, much O
(which is under cultivation. Tn
census gives this valley popu
lation of l,c00. There are inexhausti
bic marble Quarries of fine quality close t
this line Coal has been discovered her
and is believed to be of good quality an
: large deposits. The Raft River mountain
are then crossed lover low divide), i
which are mines of silver and lead anu a.
; abundance of tie and mining timber, ant
the line follows down Grouse creek. wit
its fine valley of $4,000 acres very fertile
well watered and somewhat settled. I
: Lucin, on the Central Pacific railroad
thence across the Great American desert
southeasterly seventy miles 10 Sku
: valley, thence through Tooele valley
Garfield Beach, thence by the M st direc
line to Salt Lake city.
Respectfully submitted.
: TEXAS ANGEL, President,
5 Z. V. BRYAN, Vice-President.
L. M. WAsHBURN, Director,
} EDMUND WILKES,
Chief Engineer
: Accompanying the prospectus was an er
! gineer's map giving complete outline c
E the proposed route, and map demonstra
ing that by the new road the distance
: Lucin, on the Central Pacific, and cons,
quently TO all California points, was fifty
!, eight miles less than the present rout
> over the promontory, besides saving tn
+ haul over this ridge, which now require
a an extra engine on all loaded trains. TT
. Idaho gentlemen will accompany the con
t mittee, and furnish any additional info
!. nation that may be required. Considerir
/ the advantages to be derived from havir
i such connection with Idaho as this line WI
e give, the committee should meet with
1 hearty response from Salt Lakes busine
e men.
Real Estate Notes.
!. Over two thousand dollars worth of 10
have been sold in View city addition vii b
the past two days.
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