Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-10-18
The RAILWAY NORTH
TTaCklayin6 on the Extension 10 Be.
gll on Monday.
FARMERS DOING THE GRADISG.
Progress aud Condition of the Road
that is to supply salt Lake
with COalrillc toal.

Monday morning noxt IL the time
set at which 10 begin laying track On
The Great Salt Lake aud Hot Springs
railfoai from B1untifIl, Davis county,
north. rhe grading Tor the met sec.
ton is about completed, aud work fur.
Their on is being pushed forward as
rapidly ~ possible.
The Davis county people are giving
Tue now roa all necessary encourage.
munt now. They are taking tie
grading contracts aui In come in.
rlhL,'s receiving 10Y in stock in the
fusli Ia Others they ngrvc 10 wait "a
fcbHIrGuie Time Tor tdU clBb. They
ipgt ulon 70 that tioy uHvo liitlo o.
nothing 10 do outside Of this work Mt
the present season, aud 10 gives them
an opportunity 10 make their time
Valuable. A. the road is ina pAytus
cUrdiuuni aul he situation will DO Im.
proved by reaching more uf the Davis
county towns, the occasion ~ payment
II M oveut oil the near ia urr. Braldps.
The rouI ~ "a benefit IN al irding chcnp
anu quick communication with Sail
Lakc.
The nrsi division Of the extension will
he from BUuutiful ~ CeuturyIlle, two
aud u hail miles. This val bo put INTO
operation AZ once. The next divisi1
which probably will he laid this fall, will
be ON 10 Pennington, three and a hall
miles iuftheT or six miles Ia ALL IhH
part II arranged Tor. The suucueaiug
step IL 10 push on 10 k.yIvillt. Tuen
will come the work ui building over
the UintHh divide Into Nuuor canyon,
aud ON 10 COAlyilip.
glance at the liEe OF the fOnd, In
cOmphfis3u with Oihefr, IL interesting.
lhufr are now two roads into the
Nasaich range from the salt Lake
valley the Union Pacific aud the Utnh
Central, The former INV runs TO Goal.
Ville, anu the latter IN projected 10 that
pJiut, The Utah Central nA PROPOSED
L iiity.three miles long. II starts from
salt Lake at an altitude OF 1900 feet,
makes n heavy snd lediOu, climb into
tbs mountains to an altitude Of nearly
1000 feet, then drops down 10 Coal.
VILE, 5000 ieot above the SEA. FMS
grades are heavy, the operation Of the
road expensive, anu the ordinary
winter renders the line slmost II not
impossible VI operation. II kept open
u ~ Ouly nt au enormous expense.
The Union Pacific, the only road
now IN Coslvillei has a fairly easy grade
between that place and Salt Lake.
IL docs not go zap the hill and down
again." like the one Just mentioned D.,
hut makes "A steady ascent, The dis,
lance by this line between Salt Lake
and C0alyille h slxiy.tWu miller, and
coal could 10 hauled prontgbly Tor
81 ton. But II does not come In at
lhat figure.
The Umh d Wyoming road Is pro.
JcCted from Salt Lake to COAlvllle. IL
climbs almost along the tops OF the |
mountains, reaching an altitude, a few
miles east o. tins city, OF $500 feet. The !
distance 10 the coal beds 10 IS miles. !
lhe grades on the road are heavy anu |
difficult.
The q. S. l.. n Hot Springs rosd has |
IA better grade thsn even the Union |
Pao ilC, though In the main 1t is
the same. The steepgst |
part Is on tho Uintah uass, aud
there II Is only nny.oight feet
to the mile. Tho road, which Is br0a
gauge, follows the wstrF level up tue
WUuar canyon, on the opposite from
the Union Pacific, and outside Of IT,
right VI way. From Salt Lake 10
IOhlNllle II Is hut ilty'tWO miltr-tou
miles shorter than the Union Pacific.
This ICugu affords opportunity Tor the
best anu most easily operated liuu
between the Summit county Claltrlds
anu the Salt Lake valley.
the negotiations by which French
money was 10 build the q. =. l.. aud
Hot Syringe road to COalvlllb have
been deferred for some time owing to
he general financial stTingenoy. They
are not Oh, however but on the con.
gafy there is good prospect FOR reach.
.ng an early and satisfactory Cluclu.
, ON. The fact that Of all the roads 10
GOalvillo this is clearly the ono that
inn no most pr0fihbly operated make
L n precious plum for capitalists, espe.
'ially IN the event NJ the extension OF
he Chicago ami Northwestern or
iome other eastern road into Utah, "a
/ ahorda the most feasible route.