The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-27
A REMARKABLE RAILWAY.
Earns Only Dollar Day, Yet Is
Worth Six Millions.

Denver Times)
The Colorado Eastern railroad Is Ike
famous English poet-lt has awakened
from nights sleep 10 find itself ia
nous. From time 10 time the road has
come into life for a time These aWak-
enings have been when the romance
writer's OF railroad news have sold the
road 10 some eastern line for a right OF
way into Denver. II is not curious that
us recent awakening has been due 10 the
same cause-that the Denver. Northwest
ern a Pacific and the Chicago, Rock ISL
and & Pacific have bought the road for
an entrance into Denver Harnessed 10
such team. IL has achieved fame even
as Tar as New York and kankakee.
Meanwhile The engineer and fireman
ana brakeman are dfoWsllv running one
IRAN each way a day. except Sunday
over the seventeen miles OF parallel
stfeaks OF rust. Now and then the lone
section man puts IN q new tie. drives a
Spike here and there. and sometimes as
oIten as twice a year puts ia Il new rail
me tIsln. composed of a coach, freight
caI dhah locomotive. moves serenelV
along. and from time TO time a rassefe ser
clmbS aboard 10 20 out to Scranton
Ihere Is a striking similarity between
the Colorado Eastern and the 81 Laufs
Aansas CITY q Colorado. For years the
81. Louis * Colorado had "a fracE ~
rusty rails that begun on the west side al
fofest park. in ST. Louis. wandered out
over the hills and dales 20 Belle. los
miles. Now and then misguided COM
llItleeS OF some secret society arranged
LOT an excursion out to creVe Occur lake
ewenty-one miles. The eXcursionists were
always glad To get back to town.
a cue 0ne cav the 81, Louis & Colorado
awoke 20 find that IL was owning a val
uaole terminal The Rock Island had
bought II. Now IL has risen 10 The prom
lhenee nearly equal 10 that of the Wa
bash which has heretofore honoreu il by
s'99lP3p'hs trains al three Of its crossings
he Colorado Eastern is similarly sit
uateu. As railroad II Is Valueless A.
the owner OF terminals IL is one of the
pest pieces OF railroad property west OF
the missouri river. IL owns a right of
way down 20 within a half block of the
} mon depot, although It's terminus Is N,
EINria. two or three miles farther out
IL Is Tor its terminals that the road has
now awakened. and. perhaps, Il will be.
as was Its Missouri prototype. bought by
big road.
leaves at $50 O'clock in the morning and
reaches Scranton at 10;is O'Clock The
three members OF its crew rest the en-
slle there and start back at 1918 reach
-, - Eiylia az E.sO. OF course, this is if
me schedule Is maintained. The engineer
mas no mails 70 make: no transconti-
MENTAL connections. not even a street car
connection TO worry him. Therefore. tho
Halh oumps over the track, hauled BY
no, Q, a narrow gauge engine thar the
RIO Grande bought years and wears ago.
ana turned over 10 the Colorado Eastern
10 save storage room in the locomotive.
graveyard out at Burnham
Ihere have been MANY stories written
recently about the Colorado Eastern. one
Is that It's expenses are S25 and its earn
ihss 81 day. The expense is all right.
out now about the earnings? Does II av-
erage 81 day?
Ihe Colorado Eastern was built in 1855
10 scranton. where an immense deposit
OF coal was opened. but the coal proved a
IAiigFe and the railroad followed. naftI-
IanN' ~ cost more than 81 900, 600 to
buiid How much its right OF wav and
! terminals cost nobody knows. Today the
rlght OF way anad terminals are worth
from Sa,oQ0,0o0 to 100000 according 10 a
SonselkdtlNe estimate. IL is not even
Known who owns the property Henry r
rogers. president OF the park board is
/ president of the company He Is rred-
| tied with being the principal owner The
chicago q Northwestern has. from time
10 time. been credited with owning the
property, having bought II something like
three years ago. not only as an invesr-
meht but as a sure means of entering
Denver. should the decision he rna6a 20
extend the Northwestern TO Denver
As a result of the recent agitation
some OF the shop-Worn. fn0th-eaten
stories have been brought out and dusfed
ana made 10 do duty again as new. THE
IaVorlte OF the list and the oldest IS
now jaw Gould went over the road once
70 buy IT, the engineer ran fast. per Ms
instructions. and Gould sat on the floor
or the flat car with his hat down over
MS ears-and came back in a carriaeei