Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-07
The Bingham Consolidated Sc
cures Sixty Day Option on
Famous Iosepa Farm.
WANT IT FOR SHELTER SITE.
Fleotrlc Line From Tocele City to
Pine Canyon Contemplated
BY Utah Consolidated.
,,.,r,oves TO Reside in Tooeie, the
prettiest Little Town in the
state of Utah.

-. aavs are ahead for Tooele
a.. c.rantsville and other parts or
Tooels county. That was maze ciear
bv important business developments
this afternoon. ,oo.od
vro,, an official source 1t was learned
that the Bingham Consolidated uia'
.aou,ed from the Church a eO-day OPP
,tor on the famous Iosepa farm IN
s,,,u Valley. where a colony of sand
,,.,oh islanders is now colonized ana
where the natives of the Pacific nave
hasn very successful. The utah Coh-
soIdated offered $4,000 for this same
tract Of land few weeks ago put
shandoned It for a site onered by oi.
Sans M Tooele at the mouth OF riie
perS -FOUR miles from the county
seat.
MIDWAY BETWEEN MINES.
rh. bingham Consolidated is very
,nxiors IN secure a site that Will be
somewhere midway between It's Blns-
nam mines and the Western utan C1 yi,,
ner better known as the Goiu mn
mine. Clifton district, In the Deep
Creek country. tOT tHlS Pa
4 Iosena farm is ideally situated near
,be line OF the Western Pacific. 1t is
stated also that in the event OF tne
bingham Con- securing the property IL
is negotiating for that 1t is almost
foregone conclusion that the Salt Lake
4 Route will also build to 1t on the
4 ground that II will not be willing Tor
4 fhe Western Pacific to handle all the
a countless thousands OF tens of custom
n and other ores that will go to this smell
i ter for reduction. This site is almost
directly west from Grantsville over the
4 mountains. though good wagonroad.
a on easy grades, runs around the point
q of the range. 1t is little more tnan
II 80 miles from this city.
s. ELECTRIC CAR LINE.
81 Another development of the day was
Nj the announcement that an electric car
line Is TO be built between Tooele and
Pine Canyon a distance of four miles,
in order that the employees of the Utah
Consolidated may live IN the county
seat. acknowledged to be the prettiest
and most healthful LOO population
town IN the State OF Utah. Cottages
are to be built here for them to reside.
In addition to being picturesque and
healthful it is also one of the best
AEull bluNiHb StttlplS VI liic VitiAo
west.
THE 1900 FOOT TUNNEL.
Work on the II 900 foot tunnel that is
to penetrate the oquirrh range from
the Bingham to the Tooele side will
soon be commenced. But II is gigan-
tic undertaking and 1t will require
long time TO complete. 1t Is to be 1000
feet lower than the present lowest point
yet reached by tGit mine people on the
east side of the range. Until it Is fin
ished all ctes will be carried over the
mountains by an aerial tramway. This
tunnel II is believed will result In the
discovery large quantity OF water
that may be of vast benefit to the
Tooele valley side OF the farming Sec
lion.
TAXES AND LABOR.
Just how big proposition this is
ior Tooele; how valuable II Is for
me town In the matter of dollars and
cents and general improvements can
hardly be computed, but 1t will be
immense, The Utah Consolidated
pau In this county this year $50, 900
hSor'n OF taxes alone and the Bing-
i ,n consolidated as much more. All
.n ts ana more will now be trans
,elred TO Tooele county. Salt Lakes
Ae@l door neighbor on the west