The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-22

weeks. The negotiations which have
been quietly conducted for the last month
have come to a focus. The instruments
that are to deliver the people of Salt Lake
from the clutches of the coal extortion
lists have been sealed. This is no idle
speculation, but solid, substantial bust
ness contamination, that will be worth
millions of dollars to the city.
THE HERALD several months ago set
tied down to the cold proposition that
Salt Lake City could never become a man
ufacturing center until it had cheap fuel,
and that the only way to secure this boon
to an oppressed and outraged community
was to encourage the building OF an indie
pendent line to the coal fields.
1t is therefore with no little gratlfica-
ton that The HERALD is at last able to
present to its readers the facts IN regard
to the organization of a construction
company which has been effected for the
purpose of extending the Hot Springs
railway into Coalville.
COAL AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANY.
Simon Bamberger, who never promises
the public any more than he can carry
out, has complete negotiations for en-
listing the necessary capital for building
the coal road, and this is not idle rumor,
but authentic information, and nothing
can arise to defeat the project except
some public catastrophe or unforeseen ac-
cident outside the range of human proba-
bility.
A company styled the Utah and Nevada
Coal and Construction company has been
organized with $500, 600 capital; the shares
being 100, 600 of s. each. The Incorporate
ors are Allen G. Campbell, William II.
Chisholm, Matthew Cullen, George A.
Lowe, George w. Keel, Emanuel Kahn,
Simon Eisman, S. j. Kenyon, William Q.
Hall and Fred II. Auerbach.
Allen G. Campbell is president, w. w.
Chisholm, vice president; Simon Els
man, secretary; S. ]. Kenyon, treasurer,
and H NJ. Mccartney, general manager.
This company is composed of many of
our wealthiest and most public spirited
citizens, and their names alone are suf-
ficient guarantee that the best interests of
Salt Lake city will always be considered.
A THREE DOLLAR GUARANTEE.
But to make assurance doubly sure, the
contract between the construction and
coal company and the Hot Springs Rail
way company specifically stipulates that
the price of coal shall never exceed So per
ton on the cars in Salt Lake city.
The extension of TIE Hot Springs road
to Coalville aptly illustrates the import
ance of starting small railroads out OF the
city.
HISTORY OF THE HOT SPRINGS ROAD.
Several years ago John Beck, to secure
quick access to the Hot springs, built the
road to that resort, with no thought of its
being converted into a coal road. Later
on Simon Bamberger became manager and
received overtures from the farmers and
brick men at Bountiful to extend the
road to that thriving settlement. Next
there came requests for its continuation
to Kaysville. The agitation created by
the greed OF the coal combine called atten-
ton to still further extension to Coal
vile, and Mr.. Bamberger, after examin-
ing all the feasible routes, discovered that
the Hot Springs road was on the most
practical route to the much talked of coal
fields.
NECESSITY FOR CHEAP FUEL.
The new road was the direct result
growing out of the dissatisfaction of the
people with the coal combine. The ar
ticles which appeared in THE HERALD
had much weight in sealing the negotia-
tions. The article which pointed out the
necessity of cheap coal, even though nat
ural gas be discovered in vast quantities,
helped to dispel the mistaken notion that
ether fuel would do away with the ne
cessity of cheap coal for manufacturing
purposes. But it was the statistics ex-
posing the fact that coal made up one
third OF all the freight received in this
city over the Union Pacific railway that
settled the proposition of a new line as
being paying investment, beyond any
peradventure.
/ Having decided that road would pay,
/ Mr.. Bamberger requested his chief en-
gineer, Mr. II. NJ. Mccartney, to investi-
gate as to which of the many proposed
routes was the most feasible.
MOST AVAILABLE ROUTE.
In speaking of this part of the work,
Mr.. Mccartney said that there were two
problems to be overcome in the building
of every railroad, the engineering
and the commercial propositions.
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