The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-25
Bingham Ore Tariff to Be Cut In
Two.
VALLEY RAILROAD PLANS
SALT LAKE TO BINGHAM IN
FIFTY MINUTES.
President Campbell Announces That
All Contracts For Construction
and Equipment Have Been Let
and Road Will Be Completed By
June IA Short Line Move.

James Campbell, owner of the North
Star group of mines in Bingham, and
president of the recently incorporated
Valley Railway company of Utah. ar
rived in town on business connected
with the railway corporation last even
ing. He reported that the corps of en-
gineers sent out from this city two
months ago had completed the work
of locating the route and driving the
grade stakes. All the switches and sid
ings are located and the total length OF
line as laid out is something over twen-
ty-five miles.
Owing to the cold weather and early
SHOWS in the Bingham canyon, there
will be u cessation of construction work
until next spring, when it will be pros
ecuted vigorously. and the entire line
completed and trains running over il
by the 1st of June. 1t will run in al
most a straight line from Bingham to
Murray and connect at the latter place
with four separate lines having termin-
ais in the city-the Oregon Short Line,
Rio Grande Western, Rapid Transit
line to Murray and also the West Side
Rapid Transit, the franchise of which
passed into the hands of the Valley
Railway company last summer. The
road will be standard gauge and thus
will be able TO transfer cars to and
from other standard gauge railroads
touching at Murray, and carry them
into or out of Bingham.
Mr. Campbell says that Bingham is a
prosperous town of more than 5000 pop
ulation, and that more than 200 people
go back and forth from Salt Lake daily;
that the Rio Grande Western railway
has the monopoly of the traffic, both
passenger and freight, at present, but
as soon as his road gets it's electric
juice into it he is going to knock the
prevailing passenger and freight tariffs
to smithereens, and reduce the running
time between Salt Lake and Bingham
from one hour and fifteen minutes to
less than fifty minutes.
The present tariff on ore from Bing-
ham to the shelters at Murray is 81 %
a ton. Mr.. Campbell thinks there will
be good profit in carrying it at six bits
per ton, and that will be his tariff.
The contracts for the construction
and equipment have been let for some
time, and the time limit for the de-
livery of the road in running order set
for June !, 1900. The rails are to be
Sc Founders and will be supplied by
the Oregon Short Line, thirty milcs of
them at a, specified rate per ton. 1t
has been stated that the rails for his
road were ordered from the Carnegie
company of Pittsburg, but Mr.. Camp
bell says the Short Line will undoubt-
edly furnish them, to be delivered at
Murray during the winter months. Two
electric locomotives of $50 horsepower
are now being designed by the General
Electric company of Schenectady, n. Y,
and in addition, four regular passenger
coaches, equipped With two fifty horse
power motors each, and having a seat
ing capacity of sixty, will be turned
over to the corporation about the 1st
of May. All the rolling stock will be
of standard gauge.
Passengers coming from or going out
to Bingham by this road will have the
choice of two routes to Murray. The
West Side Rapid Transit road will be
extended on to Murray in the spring,
so that people living on the west side
will have the same accommodations as
those on the east side have with the
State street line at their disposal
There is good reason to believe that
an interesting game will be developed
on the local railroad chess board when
the spring months happen round. The
Valley Railway company of Utah COM
prises the pawnS and minor pieces that
usually effect the opening moves, but
back of 1t all undoubtedly stands the
Short Line, essaying TO checkmate the
Western in the Bingham corner of the
board, and put quietus to the existing
traffic monopoly. When the queens get
into the game interesting Developments
may be looked for.