Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-10-05
financial success and unlimited

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utility.
With an expenditure of more thai
100000 900, David H. Moffat ha,
: succeeded in building his line from
Denver through Jefferson, Boulder
and most of Grand county, and /.
, now knocking on the door Of Routt
county. With a total expenditure oi
$4,000 00 the road will have beer
built to the Colorado-Utah line, and
will connect there with the western
branch, which is now being surveyed
by a syndicate of Utah capitalists,
? headed by Jesse Knight and Reed
+ Smoot.
: Another important epoch in the
history of the Moffat road was writ
ten a 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 We're required to complete the
job.
For this eason David II. Moffat
celebrated the opening of the line
through Gore canyon a week 9 Sat
urday by taking a 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 $40, GOO, 900 to build the road as
far as Kremmling, at the mouth of
the canyon, and that a total Of 49,
600, 600 will have been spent before
the line reaches the boundary be-
tween Colorado and Utah.
The road to Kremmling cost s10,-
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 $4,000 a
mile.
Contracts for the grade TO Steam
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 mor will be required to get
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 harmony 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 will
not cost any more per mile than the
Kansas Pacific, Burlington or Rock
Island across the prairies east of
Denver to the Missouri river. The
only Prairie line which would have
the advantage by comparison is the
Union Pacific, which has an easy
grade down the Platte valley. But
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, t26 miles .O00. 600
From Kremmling to
Steamboat Springs, 81
miles ............ 10000 0
From Steamboat Springs
to state line, 144 miles 1000. 900
The cost of the line west of
kremmling is estimated. At s40.-
600 a mile the road from Kremmling
to Steamboat Springs would cost So
100000, but the cost will probably
be $4,000, 600.
Chief Engineer II. A. Sumner of
the Moffat road says that -four coal
companies will be ready to ship fuel
as soon as the road reaches the coal
fields leg year.
Some of the coal men have al
ready established their yards, and are
in 200 to 800 feet in their mines,
says Mr.. Sumner. Some of them will
snip in heavy machinery before the
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