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
nc RICH REGION IN sTRATE-
GIG TERRITORY.

1rcutcheon Of Pittsburg. Pa.
s.-. NJ the PittsburE-Idaho Mining
s,-- owners Of several lead-copper
~ Gilmore. Ida. and other mining
l--,5-- fu that district and in the sal
r4-v mining district OF that state,
.-- --,,-izr6-ed at tine kuutsford- Mr.. Nc
= - arrived iu the city yesterday,
----.--,T-s- several weeks going over
2. -+r Of his company new railroad
- t-msfaad. Mont. TO Salmon city by
'.o. 80 GILMORE This is the Gilmore &
-t-l-- railroad. the building of which
~. .zr5af columns Of newspaper com
.el -e I'D sorts 81 Wild spCculatiOns.
PA vrfer. t has been asserted at va
--- lines Was being backed by the
,-.-,r-r.rarr. bv the Milwaukee & st.
E- DID. Burlington. By Hartman
-+Hr-- and which no newspaper Up
RI .a,s= f.Hr. has seemed absolutely GER
= ghsrr further than that the road is
barE built and that hunoteos OF men .tIe
..--77rrF 30 various locations along the
+r BOD construction work. Mr.. Nc
..-----.- will leave FOR PittsburE today.
~ .--L--F freely about the road and about
.s. mines bis company is interested in
last night. BE said
.gvarI fs going along on the construc-
..- u-1-E very satisfactorily. The con-
.---t 10 fu the hands Of Mccarthy Bros.
70 --rirzgo and New York and they have
llt nearly an of their SlIb-contracts. Most
ID the sub-c0utrsCtors are on the Job-
-r-.-a are now about forty outfits At
work along the route ana lhc Ioao -
.--roo-sd t0 be finished for operation be-
ir.asr Brmstead ard Salmon City by
rs-ra-~ l. Work IS progressing at each
"a -rra zub-cradiug has been completed
r.- about sixty miles from Armstead and
-ra first carload OF rails is expected to
arrive within few days rom salmon
Iffr men have been at work clearing and
haze worked for about fifty-fiVe miles
rI0rr The TiEht Of way. Grading viii be
,-s-fsd AZ That end within a week or ten
fa-= Crews are At work on the big Des-
u4rf cut the biggest ON the route. "A
s-r+v-oirht-fuot cut. and also on the next
biggest cut 1T EannoclI pass The COM
--siion of The big tunnel here will not
br ATTEMPTED at once. We viii run
+. yb-grada line oyer the mountain and
b.7l5 \ short tunnel for immediate use
md finish the big tunnel afteTward. We
s-s anxious 20 got the road in operation
as soon as possible
Who Is Back of II.
Mr. NcCutcheon said that he had been
un iu that country to see the work start
ed attend tG various business details and
r-freir4Ifr to attend TO condemnation pro-
rasdinES necessary to perfect the right OF
uav between Gilmore and Salmon City.
These matters. ne said. had all been sat
isfagtO-IIv completed.
sWh0 is back or the building OF this
new roadg" was a direct question asked Of
DR. McCutcheon. Mr.. NCCutcheon has
an attractive smile, and he used il right
"Ue are hack of 1.-THE people Of our
We'll" said the reporter, you know
there have been q great many rumors
% The effect that James tt. Hill -
Yes that's so" cut in Mr.. MCCutCheOu,
".hc-a have been a good many OF those
r1mCrs. but the fact Of the matter is that
We are building the road ourselves be
cause
DO YOU consider that you have stolen
q march on Hartman by getting started
on this road to Salmon City? was
asked
Another Of those attractive smiles.
reply. "Of course. il 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 now
has engineers in the field looking toward
setting TO salmon City,
rs that SOP
Yes but they have so far only got a
supplementary route surveyed. and If IS
mv belief that when the oregon Short
Line runs into Salmon City it viii be
over OUT tracks
First Class Construction.
Then YOU may sell your line to Mr..
Hartman when IL is completed? was
g suggested.
The question was not answered directly.
Air. McCutcheon said: Before we began
building this line we very carefully inVes-
tigated the mining fields which the road
win tap. We were satisfied that II would
7aT-pav big-to build the road. We have
valuable properties in there and there
are other big holdings. We decided 10
build the road. When we have that road
v5 VIII have a good paying piece OF
cad ana we viii have entered upon a
strategic piece OF territory. I VIII say
mat We are building a much better, more
substantial. more expensive road than We
bad Intended to build when we first de-
dsd on the matter, but We well know
That wHe7 that road is completed ii viii
Dr. wanted nightly badly by some big roal-
road system and we are not going TO
Lose anything by making it tirst-ciass
piece Of track right on the start
Mr. NeCuiCheon was asked regarding
me mines of his company The principal
mines owned 10y the ldaho-Pittsburg COM
nanr are the Gilmore and the Brown
mines. The former has rot been extern
SFeIr developed. but the Gilmore is vide
- known as one Of the big mines IN that
part OF the state. We have not Oper-
aLa1 as extensively as We would have
done had we had marketing facilities.
said Mr.. MeCutCheou. The Gilmore is
DON 1iEhty-Three miles from the railroad.
] VIII say that our company mas formed
purely for development purposes-not TO
se- Our stock has never been listed.
We are I'm business TO operate. We are
on The gr1-toot level end have sunk a
smart 20 r'1 feet and are now working
oH that level. with the expectation Of
geae1'1- orc within a month. We have
l2le lots of blocking and We have right
now between 400 and 800 tons of high
s-s11 ore ON Che dump. There are some
.Neelf1- properties At Salmon City only
waiting the building Of the road for de-
-lnme1r and al Junction. right on our
predict there viii be. with the
7Uo1 of the transportation facilities.
-,, the richest lead camps in the north
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