The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-08-15
YRE CHALK CREEK ROAD.
Representative of the New York
Syndicate Appears.
SOMETHING MORE DEFINITE.
The Chamber OF Commerce Will Con.
slider the Proposition.
Surveys Have Already Been Made-Whai
The Syndicate VIII Ask fora Cut
on the sIidland-The Irish-Amer-
lean Excursion-Nores.

The gentleman who wrote to the
chamber of commerce and real estate ex-
change about week ago notifying each
institution that he will submit propo-
sition to the citizens Of this city regard
ing road from Chalk Creek to Salt Lake
made his appearance in person yesterday
before President Hubbard and Secretary
Benton of the chamber Of commerce. and
discussed with them the railway situation
and laid before them as much OF his
proposition as he was authorized to give
out. While the gentleman still desires
his name and that of his i'm
mediate chief to be withheld Tor
some time longer, yet he appears TO
be no visionary scheme- who wants to
rope this city into paying bonus ana
giving depot facilities and then making a
trade. He comes with a. straightforward
business proposition, and says he Will be
backed up in any arrangements ne may
make by a syndicate that has S5U, UOO, wv.
Unlike many syndicates and persons VINO
have wanted TO build railways or locate
industries here, he does not ask that a
bonus shall be given him until the WORK
has been done. The proposition, when
made, will assume form that will bind
the Salt Lakers to give certain bonus,
in both real estate and money, When
the road shall be built from Chalk
creek to tins city and to give certain
other bonus when the road shall be com
pleted to Los Angeles. The reason the
proposition was not submitted yesterday
comes from the fact that the New York
directors of the scheme have found 1t
necessary to make a change IN the plans.
and will not be able TO communicate their
decision until next Saturday at the
earliest Then a full statement will be
made, and the chamber of commerce d.
rectors. who will be c. led to meet upon
that day, viii have an opportunity to de-
eide az to the credibility to be attached to
the gentIeman's statements, and to de-
eide what action shall be taken in the
matter.
The mysterious agent is surveyor who
knows the country between Omaha and
Los Angeles great deal better than some
of our oldest residents, ana discourses
with authority upon grades, route and
resources OF the country through which
the road will pass. a corps of engineers,
he says, has been surveying the line for
the last seven months and laid out all the
WORK with surprising thoroughness. The
course of the railway from Chalk Greek
will bring it down through Farley S
canyon The depot will probably be at
the foot of Main street, though there is
be able to enter the city. From Salt Lake
it viii run westward and will
cross the Nevada line about twenty miles
above the crossing that is to be made by
the Deep Creek road and thence on west
into central Nevada, from where it bears
to the south and will go to the City of the
Angels. The road, SO says the stranger
will tap wealth producing region that
will be far ahead of the Utopia sketched
bv the hackers of the Deep Creek line,
and viii bring to Salt Lake wealth that
has hardly been dreamed of heretofore.
The representative who is here says that
he makes no idle boast when he declares
that il Salt Lake will make reasonable
concessions the road will be here by De-
cember 1, and that trains will be hauling
coal here from Chalk Creek for next
winters consumption. The western
division viii then be pushed on and by
next summer we will probably be eating
California fruits hauled over a road that
will not give cheaper rates to Omahs
from San Francisco than from Salt Lake
and will be able to make Utah energy
felt ii the country to the east through
the help of low rates.
tsMy company is not indulging IN al
irridesceut dream,'' said the strange
tsIt knows what the possibilities Of roat
are and has maturely weighed every con
sideration. 1t means business, and bust
ness only, and with its fifty millions i
likely to accomplish something
Mr.. Hubbard and Mr.. Benton utteret
what will prove to be the sentiments o
all loyal Salt akers when they said t.
the stranger: "Make us a GOOD, straight
solid proposition, and Salt Lake viii Civ
q proper answer. ~