The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-11
ALTA SHIPPERS
TO GET RELIEF
Manager of Continental Com
pany Returns from East
With Welcome News.
DIVIDENDS BY FOUR MINES
TWENTY TlNTIC PROPERTIES
SHIP ORE DURING WEEK.

That the camp of Alta will speedily get
the relief it needs in the way of trans
portatiOn facilities is the assurance given
by Henry NJ. Crowther, general manager
of the Continental company, who re-
turned from four weeks eastern bust
ness trip Thursday night. The original
plan of solving the camps transportation
Facilities, he says, is to be changed some
what but the change viii be in the ma
ture of a betterment rather than other
wise, for the producers of the district
viii be able TO reap some material bene-
fit from il within a few weeks.
The delay in getting things moving,
said Mr.. Crowther yesterday morning,
has not been so much our fault as
might be imagined. The trouble has been
largely due to the delays occasioned in
disposing of the red tape arrangements
with the railroad company. / am not
ready to tell you for a few days vet just
what We are going TO do, but | can say
that it has been decided to work out the
transportation problem in sections. so to
speak. The first section will be rounded
into shape within four or five weeks. the
second before the year is ended and the
entire system of transportation of freight
and ore will be in full operation in the
spring Our plans Will effect a saving
OF 10 to 81 per cent of the present freight
and ore tariffs up and down the canyon
and give facilities for handling all the
business that may be offered"
Aerial Tram important Factor.
That the Continental aerial tramway is
TO play an important part in the sys-
TEN of Mr.. CrOwther frankly acknowl-
edged. IL is proposed to make of the
tramway a carrier that will be at the dis
posal of all interests in the camp. Two
or three loading stations are TO be placed
at convenient points on the line. De
tachable buckets and other devices that
viii make IL possible for any company
TO utilize it will be installed and every
thing possible done to insure 10 patrons
a steady and dependable service and at
about half the cost now burdening the
operators.
To illustrate what he meant in this
connection Mr.. CFOWther explained that
he had made a contract with the City
Rocks company for the carrying of up
freight and ore down the canyon, which
meant a great deal to that corporation.
On coal, gasoline, distillate, grain and
feed the rate given the City Rocks COM
pany is so per cent lower than the team
ing charge; on timber and lumber it
saves the company 60 per cent; on gen
eral merchandise, supplies, groceries, eX-
plosives, etc. 90 per cent. while the rate
made the company on ores makes diff
ference on the cost of transporting low
grade of So per cent and on high grade
30 per cent.
All Corners May Get Relief.
What is being done for the City Rocks,
Mr.. Crowther says, will be done for any
other company in the camp, and he is GER
tain that by no other scheme can the dis
trict get the relief IT must have. When
the enormous cost of keeping the roads
in repair and the snow shoveled out in
the winter and spring are taken into con-
sideratiOn; when il is remembered that
there are nearly four months in the year
when il is impossible to get teams up
and down the canyon at all, it seems
certain that operators in the district will
not be slow to see the advantages that
Mr. Crowther's enterprise offers. The
aerial tramway has withstOOd one win
ter and, while portion of it was dam
aged q little by snOwslides. there has
been a shifting of towers. ballasting, etc,
that will make the line much more Teli-
able than il has been and altogether more
certain than any other form of trans
pOrtation in the upper portion of the can
yOn can possibly be.
Traction Lines Not Feasible.
Mr. Crowther laughs at the suggestion
that some one may build an electric line
To the camp. Every feature of such
nicely and IL has been absolutely deter
mined that IL is not feasible, a fact that
any one interested would not be long in
finding out. Neither is steam railroad
feasible. Ten miles of steady 10 per cent
grade preciudes the successful operation
of such line, to say nothing of the
certainty of it's tracks being swept away
by slides every winter. For several years
the problem of giving the camp a sat
isfactory transportation system has been
gone into in all its aspects and that is
the reason why the aerial tram system
for the upper five miles was finally de-
termined upon; that it can be improved
upon Mr.. CrOWther. is certain cannot be
shown.