The Glenwood post., 1910-10-15
Company Incorporated to Build New
Railroad From hapman, in This
County to Salt Lake City
CHAPMAN NEAR new CASTLE

For several months there have been
numerous rumors concerning the sale
of several ranches in the Grand valley
below New Castle, among which the old
Slaughter ranch and the Henrickson
ranch and it has been said that the OBJ
ject of the proposed purchase was to
start town which was to be known as
Chapman and from this town to run
line of railroad to Meeker and thence
on through eastern Utah to Salt Lake,
Chapman to be the main point of con
nection with the Denver q Rio Grande.
The Post has made little or no men
tion of the venture because we saw no
evidence of any substantial action and
we did not care to publish what looked
very much like rumors and nothing
more, considering that we could well
afford to wait until some definite action
had been taken by those promoting the
venture, at least to the extent of fling
some papers and making some claims
as to what those interested in the ven
ture proposed to do.
The following, taken from recent
issue of Denver paper, sets forth the
claims of the promoters of the project
and because it is of especial interest to
Garfield county, should the objects of
ba int foI ho inI MT
the Post publishes the article in full:
Articles of incorporation were filed
with the secretary of state today for
railroad on the western slope. The
road will be started at point on the
Grand river in Garfield county; it will
cxtends to Salt Lake City. 1t is to be
known as the Grand River, Meeker 4
Salt Lake railroad.
The signers of the original articles OF
incorporation are Alfred Muller, Viii
liam D. Lippit, William P. Simmington,
Arthur Friedman and John T. Mcclure.
all of Denver. The company is capital
lied at $1O,OOO,OOO. The fling fee paid
to the state is more than $4,000.
The road will have its start at point
to be named Chapman, situated on both
the Denver & Rio Grande and Colorado
Midland railways. The exact location
of this point has not yet been deter
mined. 1t will depend largely upon
the report of the engineers now work
ing in the field. They are seeking
point from which the road may proceed
by the lowest possible grade. There
will be new town built
From the Grand river the route as
proposed will extend northerly through
Garfield and Rio Blanco counties to
Meeker Junction, following the White
river valley westward from this point
to the Utah state line, thence to Salt
Lake City. Rights of way to Meeker in
Rio Blanco county and to the Utah
state line have been secured. 1t is
understood that construction work will
commence Immediately
Already capital to the amount of $2,-
100000, sufficient to build the road to
Meeker, has been subscribed. This cap
ital, it is said by officials of the road,
is supplied by individual capitalists in
eastern and western cities, who are rep
resented by the incorporators and dire:-
tors of the new road.
Alfred Muller. an attorney of Den
yer, will act as general counsel for the
company. He will have headquarters in
Denver Temporary quarters for tn,
railroad have been secured in the Ernest
& Cranmer building, adjoining those of
the general counsel. Later they will be
located in the new Foster building.
Officials of the road say that because
of the easy grades and maxi mum curva-
lures obtained, the route will be IA
vorite for heavy freight traffic. Be
sides this, they say, the preliminary
surveys show a saving in distance over
the route traversed to Salt Lake City
of 100 miles.
The counties Immediately affected by
i, the new railroad are Garfield and Rio
: Blanco in Colorado, and Unita, Wasatch,
Summit and Lake in Utah. The terri
Dtory in Bio Blanco county alone to be