Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-20

/ offers % FIRST second and third prize
I OF 500 $50 and $50 for the best decorated
purple window on Elks purple day at
I sta'r. Thursday August 9tn. a hun-
I dIed dollars VIII also be- awarded al .
special prize for the best inside or OUT
side decoration
The RIO Grande Railroad company
with % capital stock of $4,000 900 incof-
p0raied laH Tuesday by b. w Jehery
J. ". GIiluly j. ~ Vale. O., W. Water
man. j.. b. Ardraws George Coppell. o..
o. Bolmau and H. II. Wilson as DIE
rertors and win 40 once begin laying
track n Southern Colorado Six lines
are contemplated and The roads when
completed VIII be- run ln connection
with the Denver q RIO Grande.
Idaho Is coming into prominence on
account of the great activity displayed
there in UllroadIng and mining. Ihat
State has some very euterprlsing clu-
gems who DO not hesitate at the eXpeudi-
ture OF thousands Of dollars upon enter
prizes which win benefit he "0em Of
the Mountains And then, they are not
entirely unsplhsh-th know every dol-
lar win am come back 90 them bringing
several acquired aCQuaintaneas.
A record breaking run was made on
Tuesday morning by freight train No
l3 In charge of Conductor C4rley. The
engine was the lili says The Cheyenne
Tribune with Engineer Ulrick up. The
train consisted OF twenty-five loads, ag-
gregatlng sGj tons in weight and was
hauled from sidney % Cheyenne, dis-
lance of lo2 miles in three hours ana
Hfty-threo minutes The schedule time
H.. ia. ....s. d.. cleo. f..trHu nuI NNfW-NUn
mInutee "a gain of two hours and two
minutes in The single run.
Nassrs Bancroft, Calvin and Eccles
of the oregon Short Line have returned
from their trip of inspection of ne Utah
az Pacific and country south OF that
lines southern terminus Some Of them
tell Of the prospects 0f Phoebe and the
country about there generally or
course the feeding capacity OF any area
US always considered Boo new railorad
construction Phoebe al present be a
back number, but pat the old camp
within easy reach ~ O railroad and both
the mining camp ana the steel highway
win feel The beneficial results. That
Los Angeles extension VIII be built
and mo- one need acquire many gray
hairs between the time of this prog
n0stcatl0n and the actual opening OF
traffic over the line that win bring Salt
Lake a couple OF hundred miles nearer
the Pacific ocean.
speaking OF the movement Of 400
"Mormons from Utah % the Big Horn
Basin OF Wyoming, a railroad man from
the East who Is much of am observer IN
"a recent Interview said. "rhe M0rmOns
who are migrating 90 Wyoming are not
Door people There Is not a member u
the new colony who has less than 81 600,
and many are worth much more. They
the best class OF Mormons.
They will prove. as their fathers have,
great colOnizers. Frugal OF exemplary
habits and good morals they Will, | feel
sure. convert the Big Horn Basin into
one of the garden spots Of America.
They have 200 scrapers az Fort Brldger,
ready 90 begin work on the great irrlga-
ton ditch. This win be thirty miles
long. twenty-five feet wide at the top,
fifteen feet wide az the bottom, with a
depth OF five feet. When finished 10 viii
irrlgate 10000 acres Of land. II win cost
about $40 900. Although their present
contract with Wyoming includes only
20 900 acres OF land, Il Is their desire 20
obtain a great deal more. On the north
bank OF the shoshone Is a vast table,
land OF about 100 900 acres. They hope
20 irrigate and develop this land, too
The burlington railroad Us now building
am extension into the Bis Horn Basin
from Toluca. Mont, and this win great
~ assist the colonists In developing
their holdings"