Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-14
Brief Notes on Its Physical Fea-
lures, Resources, and Development.
II. RAILROADS EVOLUTION
TRANSPORTATION.

road to Salt Lake City was the occa.
sion of a general holiday.
THE LATER RAILROADS
In 1882 the Denver & Rio Grande
headed for Texas from the Colorado
capital, changed its course and came
through the vast, barren plateaus of
eastern Utah to Salt Lake City; and
as lately as 1905, the San Pedro pushed
on the eonquests of the oregon Short
Line through southwestern Utah and
the deserts of Nevada to the city
by the sea--Los Angeles.
The Utah Central after reaching Salt
Lake in 1869, was soon constructed
southwark to Milford and thence to
the great Horn Silver mine at Frisco,
240 miles. These lines were built by
the industry of the people of Utah. who
also furnished much of the labor on
of the railroad mileage had
been built was still operat-
ed as a sort of cooperative en-
terprise by the Mormon people. Later
these lines We're sold to the great rail-
way companies, which now operate
them.
The San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt
Lake was completed for traffic in May,
1905, and gave TO Utah a new highway
Geles are now but day apart, and
Utah smelters receive the ore treas
ures of the new Nevada. The Western
Pacific, another line building from Salt
Lake across the desert, will connect
with San Francisco. 1t win thread
mining districts long isolated and will
send new streams OF ore to Utah's
smelling plants.
The hydrocarbon fields are reached
by the Uintah railroad from Mack,
Colo, northward 81 miles to Dragon.
The train crosses the picturesque Book
Cliffs, climbs a mountain at a grade of
III per cent, and passes such places
as Thlmble Rock, Coyote Basin, and
Dead Mans Bench-"a whirl of ragged
ruggedness, natural amphitheaters,
obelisks, temples and pinnacles."
Beaver has $640,7l5 worth of rail-
way property within its borders; Box
elder, s4,360.S6S Cache. s721,S27; Car
bon, S1,00G,SS1 Davis, sS56,550; Emery,
s71O,772; Grand. S914,6s6; Iron, $685.
$780, Juab, s1,11S,627 Willard, $1,000,
1923; Morgan, $S52,759; Piute, $4l,752;
Salt Lake, $3,039, 499; Sanpete, $780,
500; Sewer, s575929; Summit, $1.04s,-
224; Tooele. s99S,79O; uintah, $4,000;
Utah, s2,6S3,531; Wasatch. s14t,sS9;
Weber, s2,044, 425. How useful are the
railroads. II the total state and
county school tax OF 81 mills for COM
mon schools and 20 mills Tor high
schools should be voted for school
purposes, how much school tax would
the railroads In your county pay in a
year?
THE INDIANS.
The following note on the native In
dian tribes. crowded out Of the last
article Is added for the sake of COM
plotting the former topic--the vegeta-
ton, animals and native peoples of
this region.
The Indians Of Utah belonged 10 the
Shoshone family and the different
tribes spoke languages more or less
related. The dominant tribe were the
Utes, with communities on the Weber
and the Uinta river The fampa
utes were south OF the Ulntas. In tho
southeast were the Fish Utes. the Elk
Mountain Utes, and the Sheberetches
In the southwest the principal tribes
We're the Pah Wants and the san
Pitches South and west OF the Great
salt Lake were several colonies "
Goshutcs, whose language WIS closer
10 Shoshone tribes than TO those OF
the utes proper Tho Goships OF Salt
Lake Valley We're close to the Gosh
utes. This language Is therefore
chosen for Illustration
The Piutes ana plodes ccntcrlns In
Nevada, ranged into Utah, as did also
tho Bannocl,s. centerlng In Idaho, The
two main languages were the Ute ana
it's dialects and tho Shoshone and us
dialects.