Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-04

and most OF Grand county. and is
now knocking on the door of Routt
county. With a total expenditure of
S15.0OO,000 the road will have been
built to the Colorado-U Utah line, and
will connect there with the western
branch, which is now being surveyed
by syndicate of Utah capitalists,
headed by Jesse Knight and Reed
Smoot.
Another important epoch in the
history of the Moffat road was writ
ten week ago Saturday, when a
train was for the first time run
through Gore canyon. Thirteen
miles of new track has been laid from
Kremmling, and the grade is virtual
ly completed for eight more miles,
which will take the line to harmony,
at the state bridge, this winter.
The completion of the line through
Gore canyon is important in the eye
of the Moffat people, because some of
the hardest work to be encountered
in building the Denver-Salt Lake
City short line lay in this canyon.
The roadbed through the canyon was
blasted from solid granite, and three
years were required to complete the
job.
For this reason David H. Moffat
celebrated the opening of the line
through Gore canyon week ago Sat
urday by taking party of friends
on a special train to view the Won
ders of Gore canyon. Mr.. Moffat him
self had never before set foot in the
district
Very few who rode in the special
train of Mr.. Moffat realized that it
cost $4,000, 200 to build the road as
far as Kremmling, at the mouth OF
the canyon, and that total of $751;
100000 will have been spent before
the line reaches the boundary be-
tween Colorado and Utah.
The road to Kremmling cost $10,-
100000, said General Manager
w. A. Deuel. last evening. Il don't
know what the cost from Kremmling
to Steamboat Springs will be, but it
is probable that it will cost $40, 900 a
mile.
Contracts for the grade to Steam
4
boat Springs have been let. and SO
per cent of the work between Var
mony and Steamboat Springs has
been completed. The contractors
have been working in Routt county
for many months.
The most difficult piece of work
between Gore canyon and Steamboat
Springs is in Egeria canyon. Eight
months more will be required to gel
through Egeria. This is delaying
the completion of the line to Steam
boat Springs, but we will get there
some time next year.
The coal fields are forty-seven
miles. from harmony, at Oak creek
which is about. twenty miles this side
of Steamboat Springs,
From Yarmons to Steamboat
Springs is siXty-six miles, and from
Steamboat Springs to the Colorado
Utah line is open. and after we get
through Egeria canyon the road viii
| MT noct opv mara nov milo +bor thf
Kansas Pacific Burlington or Rock
Island across the prairies east Of
Denver to the Missouri river. The
l.only Prairie line which would have
the advantage by comparison is ths
Union Pacific, which has an cas-.
Lgrade down the Platte valley. Bu
We have nothing heavier than The
other lines mentioned.
The cost of the Moffat road to the
state line will be divided as follows:
From Denver to Kremm-
| ling, 126 miles 10000, 600
From Kremmling to
| Steamboat Springs. 81
! miles .... 5000, GOT
From Steamboat Springs
to state line, 144 miles 1000, 0O(
Total .... SIS, 200, OOt
4 The cost of the line west o
Kremmling is estimated At $40.
900 a mile the road from Kremmlins
to Steamboat Springs would cost 81,
$40, 900, but the cost will prpbabl!
be $4,000, 900.
Chief Engineer H. A. Sumner 0
the Moffat road says that four Goa
companies will be ready to ship fue
! as soon as the road reaches the Goa
fields next year.
Some of the coal men have al
! ready established their yards, and ar,
, in 200 10 300 feet in their mines,
, says Mr. Sumner Some of them will
ship in heavy machinery before TIL,
: | roa1 Is nnmnlpted Il, tha coaI fialdc