, 1891-04-29
a RAILWAY PROJECT
A Big Contracting Firm Offers to
Build a Railroad.
Direct Connection for Cheyenne
with the Northern Coal Fields.
Agricultural and Mining Regions
Would be Tributary to Us.

MIR. d. s. G%riffen. manager for Kill
patrick Brothers l. Collins the big railway
contracting firm has been 10 the city for
several days. Mr.. Griffen had charge OF
the construction work on the Cheyenne l.
Northern for his firm and also of the
Cheyenne & Burlington when it was built.
He is looked upon as one of the best
informed men in the railway building
business in the country.
Mr.. Griffen says that Fitzpatrick
Brothers & Collins have submitted a
proposition to the directors of the
Burlington system, which if accepted will
mean the immediate building to this city
of a north and south line of the Burling-
ton placing Cheyenne in direct communi-
cation north with Newcastle and south
with Denver.
The proposition referred to is this:
Fitzpatrick Bros. & Collins propose to
build and complete a line from Alliance.
Neb., to Cheyenne. aud from Cheyenne
to Denver, taking in payment second
mortgage bonds, leaving the road open
for first mortgage to ensure rolling stock.
This proposition, which is unique in the
history of railway building, can easily be
carried out by the firm making it, as it
has unlimited financial backing and could
build and equip a road twice the length
of the one proposed without being en-
barrassed.
The Kilpatricks know the country
through which the proposed road would
pass thoroughly. From Alliance to Chey-
enne the country Is favorable to inexpen-
sive railway construction with easy grades
and little or no rock work. From here to
Denver, by way of Greeley and possibly
Fort Collins, the country is equally favor
able. In fact the entire line could be con-
structed at minimum figures in railway
construction work. The entire distance
is about 220 miles.
No extended explanation is needed to
show how beneficial to Cheyenne the
proposed project If contaminated will be.
The coal and coke of Newcastle can be
LAID down in the city with less than $50
miles OF railway transportation. The
question of establishing iron manufactures
here will be solved, for with iron ore com
ing south over the Cheyenne & Northern,
and coke to work it coming on the
Burlington, it will be impossible to keep
from making iron at Cheyenne, and
rolling mills and founderies will be natural
creations.
Tha road, passing through the rapidly
developing valley of Horse creek. will
make directly tributary to Cheyenne as
fine an agricultural country as can be
found IN Wyoming. An extension to
Denver by way of Greeley and Fort Col
Inns will place the city in closer CONNER
cial relations with these places
The construction and operation OF the
road would be OF immense benefit to XII
patrick Bros. & Collins. The firm now
owns a large area of coal land in Weston
and Crook counties with coal in l~nexhausti-
Bile quantities. EnlarRing their markets
BY reaching Cheyenne, Greeley, Fort
Collins, Denver and points intervening
would give the firm a field of operations
from which unlimited returns would be
the result.
Although no aid from Cheyenne or any
of the cities to be reached by the new
road will be asked, yet the benefits would
be so great that every city on the line and
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