The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-19

H. NJ Crowther Completes Deal to
Build Line Up the Little
Cottonwood.
RUN TRAINS THIS SEASON
ARRANGEMENTS MADE WITH
THE RIO GRANDE WESTERN.

Within thirty days surveyors will be
in the field and construction will have
commenced on the broad gauge line Of
railroad from Sandy to Tanners Flat,
in Little Cottonwood canyon. the lower
terminal point of the Continental-Alta
company's aerial tramway. Before the
season is over trains will be running
regularly, carrying freight and passen-
gers between the two points and deliv-
ering ores and concentrates from the
mines and mills of Alta to the sampIing
mills and smelters Of the valley. Such
is the information given out by Henry
NJ. CrOwther, general manager of the
Continental Mines & SHELTERS corpora
ton upon his arrival from the east yes
terday morning.
1t means that the old bonanza camp
OF the Little Cottonwood canyon will
enjoy cheap transportation facilities.
and that Alta will forge to the front at
a pace which will, within year or two,
place 1t right in the front ranks with
the best reproducing and money-mak-
ing camps of the state; it means that
the camp which, In the early DAYS Of
its career produced. according to the
record, no less than 200. 600 tons of ore
OF a gross value of $50 per ton, or $50
100000, and paid millions in dividends,
can now begin to repeat that perform
ance and make just as mach money on
$15 ore as it then did on rock worth
twice that amCJ Mt per ton.
1t means that a new era will dawn
Tor Alta this year, as every pound Of
ore produced by the mines, whether
high or lOw-grade, can be shot out to
the shelters at a good profit and that
there VIII no longer be reason why
capital should hesitate 20 invest in the
camp.
Right OF Way Leased.
For two years Mr.. Crowther has been
neSOt ating with the Rio Grande West
ern, which owns the old tramway be-
tween Sandy and Alta, to secure a
lease on that right OF way that a line
might be constructed to give the camp
better transportation facilities than It
has ever enjoyed. A few months ago
he reached an understanding with the
year he went to New York to fix I'D
the details. The directors of the rail-
road company, after several delays.
authorized Vice President G. H. Setback
to sign uD with Mr.. Crowther a ten
year lease of the cOmpanv's right Of
way, together with terminal facilities az
Sandy and an arrangement whereby
trains might run over the cOmDany's
tracks to the smelters. On Feb. the
papers were signed up and Mr.. Crow
Their took the first train for the west
He stopped off in Denver to attend to
business requiring his attention there.
and reached home yesterday.
by the terms of the lease which 7
have secured" said Mr.. Crowther, per
mission is given for the formation Of a
to operate the new road. That.
company will be organized and the
shares in it viii. be owned by the stock
holders of the Continental Mines &
SHELTERS corporation: as the transDor-
tatiOn company will be a common car
rier. it will have no connection with the
mining company, other than as stated.
The road viii be at the service of the
public, just as are the lines Of any
railroad corporation. and the traffic
rates viii be so adjusted that a great
saving viii accrue to the people having
business to do in Alta. The main ship
ping point on this end Of the line will
be at Sandy, while the upper OF CANYON
station. viii be at the terminus of the
Continental tramway. The line win be
opened to traffic just as soon as posi-
bic, and hope by early fall"
VIII Repair Aerial Tramway.
Mr.. Crowther said that repairs on the
aerial tramway will be commenced at
once, and he expects to have the line
in operation again within few weeks
The damage done to the tramway bv
the snOwslides last month was not near
" as serious as at first reported. Mr.
CrOwther's statement was confirmed by
the statement Of Superintendent o. A
Jacobson of the Columbus Consolidated
a few days ago. when he said
that, while a few towers had been taken
out by the slides, a great majority of
those reported as lost were simpTv
pulled off from their foundations or
thrown out Of line by the pulling OF the
cables to one side by the Slides There
are S1Xty-eIght towers along the five
miles covered by this tramway. and
more than twenty miles of cable is used
IN its equipment. A few hundred dol
lars will fully meet the cost of the
damage done and the line will soon be
In operation again.
And 10 one is more anxious to see If
running than IS Mr.. Crowther. who
says that since it was disabled some
six or eight carloads of the richest ore
ever produced ny the Continental prop
critics since their requirement are
waiting shipment to the smelter. Not
Dnly that, but the City Rocks company.
which has a contract with the CONT
mental to carry its ores. is also ready
to supply a steady tonnage, and the
of that most promising
property viii be glad when the repairs
are made
ANTI-JEWISH RIOT.
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