The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-13
RUSHING WORK
ON COPPER LINE
Interesting Details of Bingham
& Garfield Road Now Under
Consideration.
FOUR GREAT TUNNELS
PART OF THE CONTRACT
About 1900 Men Employed in
Building the New Line at
Bingham.
Special TO The Tribune.

Special TO The Tribune.
BINGHAM, Aug. 12.-The new elgh-
teen mile Utah Copper railroad from
Bingham to Garfield is being pushed Wig
orously. tents being pitched along the
line sufficient to accommodate a sinall
army. Over the whole distance some
construction work has been oone. eNcep.
close TO town. where tunnels are to De
driven. 300-foot bridge. l6o feet high
at its greatest altitude. will be construct
ed across Carr Fork. little west OF the
Copper highline. From Carr Fork to
Markham gulch to point near the III
merton hotel will be nm open cut WORK
has been inaugurated here. one stsanl
shovel being In operation now. Another
bridge 200 feet long Will span Markham
gulch.
-Four Tunnels in All.
There will be four tunnels in all, one
10 be driven 400 feet from Markham 10
Freeman gulch; another, 200 feet, from
OF 700 and 500 feet each. from Smclter TO
Dead Horse guIch and from Dead Horse
gulch 10 Dry Fork: The Meyers Con l.
struction company has the contract Tor
base of operations. 500 feet Of tunnels
having already been driven at various
points. The grade on this road VIII not
be n heavy one. averaging not more than
2.25 per cent for the entire distance. the
route being comparatively direct. The
distance 10 Garfield over the highline is
at least twenty-five miles. Inc new inc
will cut off the distance seven or eight
miles. The tunnels are TO he 233 feet
high by Is feet wide. and Will be TIM
bered where the formation Is soft. Those
are between 1900 and 1900 men employed
a various points along the line.
Solving Difficult Problem.
The most difficult problem to solve In
tho industrial operations of the camp rs
railroad transportation, This has been
the case to quite an extent for several
years past. The Denver & Rio Grande
has done wonders I'm the way of trans
portation. but one lone railroad cannot
perform miracles In the face OF mar
veious production They have In the
neighborhood OF 5000 ore cars, which they
are running as Systematically and eX-
peditiously over a per cent grade as the
congested condition OF traffic will allow
and yet they are deluged with trafhc.
They have made maximum daily hauls OF
at least % 900 tons OF ore No railroad
could he expected TO do more, The clos
ing of the Yampa smelter means an addi-
tional tax upon the railroad. Heretofore
the ore from the Yampa mine was taken
10 the smelter over the bucket tram
way Now they have an excellent con-
tract 10 furnish the smelter at Garfield
with 300 tons daily-ore suitable for flux-
ing purposes. AT times the mine is COM
pelled TO close. not because they haven I
the men TO mine the ore al this end OF
the line, nor because the ore isn't needed
at Gbrleins out Simply DHtduSe lutS c1l
get the cars to take II there. This may
occur many times before this extra ton
mage Is permanently provided for; \
higher rate OF speed would pTecip!tatc
accidents and a loss Of time entaied IN
the end. The closing OF the Utah Copper
mill at Copperton. when little town ot
600 people was wiped out Of Existence
in no way affected tho railroad tonnage
The 1000 tons Of ore daily. which had
heretofore been diverted to Copperton
nov follows the main channel TO Garfield