The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
INTO COLORADO
Carnegie Goes Behind a Big
Railroad Scheme.
VIII Open Up a-Territ0Fy Fill
ed With Minerals.
PUTTING UP MILLS.
Make a Direct Line From Dem
yer to Salt Lake.
Shorter Than Anv Present
PUTTING UP MILLS
Shorter Than Any Present
Route by 900 Miles.

FlIISpurgy March -3.-Carnegie has
entered the Colorado mining territory.
Where he is building railroads. stamp
IllIIs and reduction plants, and mine
| owners In the west believe that his
agents are rapidly buying up virgin
gold mining land
The entrance of the great iron and
steer manufacturer into Colorado dates
PACK TO last October, it is said. when
the colorado and Northwest railroad
was started and built with his capital
NOW that the road is practically COM
plete, there are reports that surveys
are pelng made to extend the line
northward, through rich cattle grazing
mining and timber land. The objective
terminus of the railroad is believed to
pc salt Lake City Utah, to which city
the nne will run directly from Denver,
opening up an undeVelOped territory,
rlch in coal and minerals, and shorten
ing the distance between Denver and
salt Lake City, nearly 200 miles.
w. II thompson, a MeadVille banker,
several PittSburg, New York and Bos-
ton capitalists and an English banker.
are said to be associated with Mr.. Car
negle in the gigantic plan which he
has mapped out.
J. p. Olympus of Denver who is in
terested in Colorado mining, told a rep
resentative yesterday of the iron kings
debut in Colorado.
Mr.. Olympus owns several gold, sill
yer and copper mines in Boulder and
GlIpin counties, Colorado. He is also
largely interested in the Sisterville, Pa,
oil district, and is in the city looking
after his oil producing property.
Last October it became generally
known" said Mr.. Olympus, that An
drew Carnegie was to build a railroad
from Boulder to Ward. This informa-
ton had no sooner become general than
ground was broken for the first parcel
of ties and rails. Work has continued
without interruption, and by April the
line will be completed. It is 25 miles
a md n nT1O of a ri m in
ing territories in the state. While it is
only built on a three foot gauge, yet the
ties have been cut wide enough to per
NIT the laying of a third rail at any
time.
by doing this the road would be
brought uD to the standard gauge.
The rails used are very heavy, weigh
ing, believe, Sc pounds.
Since the commencement of opera
lions on this new railroad any amount
of surveying has been done in different
directions, and it is the general opinion
in Colorado that the line is to be ex-
tended in several ways. Boulder, where
the Northwestern begins, is only 80
miles from Denver To enter the prin-
cipal city of the state, therefore, would
be an easy matter for the new road.
1t could go over the tracks of the Den
yer and Rio Grande or the Union Pa
cific, although it is probable that these
lines would StrenuOusly oppose the en-
trance of Carnegie's lines into Denver.
To them it would necessarily mean a
loss of traffic.
mo official announcement has been
made that the railroad is to be extended
to Salt Lake City, Utah, but mine own
ers who are in touch with the situation
are of the opinion that it is the project
ors' plan to complete the line clear
through to the Mormon capital. If this
is done it will prove to be one of the
most important affairs of its kind in the
west since the building OF the Union
Pacific railroad.
SURVEYS I understand, have been
made through one of the richest terri
tories in the United States. If the road
is to be built according to these sur
VeyS, it would go through the Middle
Park country which abOunds in rich
grazing fields, mineral deposits, tim
Der and both grades of coal, anthracite
and bituminOuS.
This district is situated in Route
county, Colorado, and it has been clear
~ shown that copper, silver and gold
are to be mined there with very little
trouble.
1.-THE line would also penetrate the
Hahns Park country, in Grande county,
where there are rich gold and placer
mines. Farther north it would traverse
a field Astounding in deposits of as
phaltum, gilSOnite and elatrite. These
latter two minerals are of great COM
merciaI value, furnishing varnish and
material for manufacturing patent
leather.
ITO extend the line clear through to
Salt Lake would require only one tun-
mel. 1t would have to be driven through
a comparatively small mountain, near
the BerthOud Pass. If pushed through
to Utah's capital the projectors would
be entirely free from competition About
100 miles north of the proposed route
are the tracks of the Denver and Rio
Grande railroad, and the same distance
south is the Union Pacific line.
Besides opening up a country the
wealth of which is unknown, the pro-
posed railroad would shorten the dis
tance between Denver and Salt Lake
almost 200 miles. The survey, I am in
formed, shows that about $50 miles of
track would have to be laid. The dis
lance between Denver and Salt Lake
over either the Union Pacific or the
Rio Grande is $40 miles, which is made
in % hours. This saving of time would
also be one of the strongest bids for
traffic that the line could possibly
make.
Carnegie is now surveying through a
territory leading from Sunset, on the
Northwestern railroad, to the new gold
mining camp, called Ell Dora, and I'M
derstand this branch is to be built with
out delay.
1.-The road will be about Is miles long,
and will enter a mining region which is
believed to contain millions of dollars
worth of precious metal. 1t is located in
Gilpin county, near the PerigO district.
This com bination of capitalists is now
putting up large stamp and reduction
to have a daily capacity of 100 tons,
and is to be supplied, it is believed,
from the mines about to be worked by
the combine
Scriptural Posters Not in Favor.