The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-15
WAN CUTCHEON
AND HIS RAILROAD
DoiIder of Gilmore & PittSburg
Line Talks Freely of
Enterprise.
CONSTRUCTION IS RAPID
INC RICH REGION IN sTRATE'
GIG TERRITORY

7rr-gtcheon Of Pittsburg. Pa.
LOT NJ The PittsburE-Idaho Mining
1900 owners Of several lead-copper
-- Gilmore. Ida, and other mining
lI.-.-+f-- fu tlat district and In the Sal
~. rf-v mining district or tndI state,
--.- --i-ferad at the knutstord- Mr. NC
7 -ss.r arrived iu the city yesterday,
~ ---rfIaz several weeks going over
~ -a--ra ar bis company new Tallfodu
-- t-rr4lrad Mont TO Salmon CITY by
'''.- ..r-..r4 This Is the Gilmore &
NJ 5-r-- railroad the building Of which
.srlaT columns of newspaper com
Pc end .T sorts IF wild SpcculatiOn2,
vra-r 10 has been assorted at va
--r lines uas being backed by the
,-.s-r-rarr bv the Milwaukee 4 st
I E- Old. Burlington. by Hartman
..frre and which no newspaper Up
81 tlis Time has seemed absolutely cet-
~ ahert further than That the road Is
Co. trHr and that hundreds of men are
.---'.g-E sr various locations along the
. f7 construction work. Mr.. Nc
...-rar ufU leave for Plttsburg today.
IL +-rteF freely about the road and about
~. mines his company is interested in
Issf night. he said
-.vorIs be- going along on the cOnstruc-
..- --1-l- very eatisfa CtGrily. The con-
.---t IS in ua hands of Mccarthy Bros
t -ti-zgo and New York and they have
h, ,esrir AN of their Sub-Contracts. Most
"a +Ta zub-c0utrsCtors are on the Job-
-r-.-o are now about forty outfits At
work along the route ana me Ioao Is
.-.,o-gd 90 be finished for operation be-
Men Armstesd and Salmon City by
Ts-us-r E. Work is progressing at each
pa -rra =ub-eradiug has been completed
IN about sixty miles from ATmStead ana
+ra first carload OF rails is expected to
-lsnNH ION
arrive within a iaW daS s. Il rom odliiiOi,
,-I+r- men have been at work clearing and
haze worked for about fifty-iive miles
-l4rr the right of way. Grading will be
carried AT that end within week or ten
davis Crews are At work on the big DeS-
r71rf cut the biggest ON the route. "A
v4zty-eirht-fC0t cut, and also on the next
biggest cut 1T EannoCk pass The com
-rafIo1 of the big tunnel here VIII not
IL sffsmptnd at once We will run 4
T..r-grade line over the mountain and
bTid a short tunnel for immediate use
md finish the big tunnel aftcTward. We
ana anxious to got the road in operation
as soon as possible
Who Is Back Of II.
SIR NrCutcheon said that he had been
Id fu that country to see the work start
ID attend o. various business details and
principally to atte1 I'd to condemnation pro-
f4adingI necessary TO perfect the right OF
These matters. ne said. had all been sat
isfsgto~IIv completed
aWho is back or the building OF this
new road2' was a direct question asked Of
Mr. McCutcheou. Mr.. MCCutcheon has
an attractive smile, and he used it right
here
eve are back of 1.-THE people of our
company" he replied.
well said the reporter, you know
there have been q great many rumors
10 the effect that James II. Hell -
aTa- that's So" cut in Mr.. McCutcheop,
'dc-e have been a good many Of those
rm0rs but the fact Of the matter is that
We are building the road ourselves be
do Won consider that you have stolen
a march ON Hartman by getting started
on this road to Salmon City? was
Another Of those attractive smiles
HNo-o-o. rot exactly was the draVn-oui
reply. "Of course, it is known that the
Short Line has been figuring on getting
into Salmon City for years. You know
don't YOU. that the Short Line right nov
has engineers in the field looking toward
getting to Salmon Cityg
IFS that Sor'
Yes. but they have so far only got q
supplementary route surveyed, and II 1;
my belief that when the oregon Shorf
Lire runs into Salmon City it viii b'
over our tracks.
First Class Construction.
Then YOU may sell your line to Mr.
Hartman when IL is completed? was
suggested.
The question was not answered directly
Nr. MgCutchpon said. Before we begaI
building this line we very carefully lhNeS
tgateJ the mining fields which the roaf
viii tap. We were satisfied that II Woulc
no nave
valuable properties in there and there
are other big holdings. We decided u
build the road. When we have that roac
ve viii have a good paying piece o.
road ana we viii have entered upon
strategic piece OF territory. I viii say
rat We are building a much better. mor'
substantial more expensive road than W'
mad intended to build when we first de-
cdel on the matter, but We well know
That wne1 that road is completed ii vii
b. wanted nightly badly by some big Toal
rodd system and we are not going Il
Lose ANYTHING by making it first-c!as'
piece Of track right on the start
Mr.. NeCuiCbeou was asked regaTdins
me mines Of his company The prlncipa
mines owned by the Idaho PittSburE com
nsnE are the Gilmore and the Brown
mines. The former has rot been eNten
sFeIy developed, but the Gilmore is wide
o. known as one Of the big mines IN tina
part Of the state We have not oper
elad as extensively as We would haN'
done had We had marketing facilities.
said Mr.. NeCutcheou. The Gilmore d
DOW -iEhty-three miles from the railroad
VII say That our company Vas torme'
purely for development purpOSes-not u
e- Our stock has never been listed
We are I'm business TO operate We ar
ll tEa 5l1-f1ot level end have sunk
smart m H0 feet and are now working
el NAT level with the expectation o
Isae1.1- orc within a month. We hav
cone lots of blocking and we have RICH
now between 400 and 800 tons of high
s-aa. ore ON the dump. There are som
.Ncelr1- properties At Salmon City onl.
awaiting the building Of the road for de
.eHWe1r and az Junction. right on on
'Hr . predict there will be. with IN
ton of the transportation facilities
the richest lead camps in the north
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