The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-10
CALLS MOFFAT
LINE CERTAINTY
Colorado Man Declares Enter
prise Is Attracting Capital
Far and Wide.
Is ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT
UTAH'S MARVELLOUS RICHES
Says Uintah Basin Holds Untold
Wealth; Presents No Engi-
neering Difficulties.

With the news of the reorganization
Of the Moffat road and the determine
ton TO send the line 10 the coast by
way of Salt Lake City, all eyes are
turned toward the country the road
will traverse. Eastern Utah and more
particularly the Uintah basin country
is having it's resources sung to wait
ing world of investors Not alone are
Utahns learning that untold wealth lies
over the rugged mountain range i'll the
land of the old Indian reservation, but
people in the east are being told about
In the Denver Times of June 8
Hugh O'Neill gives an interview
with John B. Mailing of Routt county,
Colo, the county of the present ter
minus of the road, What Mr. Mailing
o 'Neill follows:
said John B. Mailing OF Routt county this
morning; when the Moffat road is re-
organized said Mr. Mailing again. un-
loading from his capacious pockets a
graphs, when that is DONE" he reiter
ated. ''and the Denver Securities COM
into Kansas and raise the money to build
the road right into Salt Lake City.
There isn't any man in this unthink-
ing town" said Mr. Mailing hotly;, who
into this enterprise II he could realize
that right across the range there are
millions Of acres Of the most fertile land
in The world and billions OF tons of min
eralized deposits that are lying virtually
untouched. just because there are not
steel rails to help them out.
Look at this said Mr.. Mailing. OPEN
ing his portfolio of pictures. THAT is
Uintah basin. Utah. Look at those rivers.
and rivers and rivers. Look at the
breadth of them and the body of them
Five years ago, sir, that was an Indian
reservation. given over to the Indians
and idreness Today $50, 900 acres have
prise has put 100000 acres under ditch
Today the government has put i12 600
acres under ditch FOR the Indians. There
are 500 miles of bitches and laterals made
miles OF bitches and laterals put in by
the government. And that territory
said Mr.. Mailing, that irrigated land.
and thousands acres more. is 200 miles
away from any railroad. and Is waiting
now for Denver to complete the Moffat
system and put tintah basin on the
transportation map.
Marvellous Wealth of Coal
Back there said Mr. Mailing. SIS
the Bonanza corral. near Nernal They
clipped million pounds OF wool there
last year. Farther back here" said Mr..
with the index finger of competent
hand there are $4,000 acres of coal
land I'm Routt county. hold by Colorado
for the school children Of this state: That
coal has an average thickness OF sixty
feet to the acre and Will run 10000 tons
for every acre mined. on n those hos school
splendid coal, and that coal must lie there
until we get the railroad.
~ know a man named A; l.. Stone"
said MI. Mailing. re1ecliyely, "who is
The Updike has eighty three distributing
depots in Nebraska. They, get their coal
from Illinois, Pennsylvania, West Nir-
ginia and Hooking Valley. Q. Mr.. Stone
told me that ne was able to get thirteen
ears of Routt county coal last year. and
II we had the railroad through to the coal
would get the whole Nebraskan market
Rich Gilsonite Deposits.
You know about sllsonite. don't you?"
hydrocarbons, They are using il now
more extensively every day in japanning,
lacquering and IN some kinds OF paint.
Well here is picture OF a gisonite de-
posit. and here is Uintah basin. where
that deposit lies. where they plan to
run the Moffat road through on It's way
lite deposit is 200 miles from any railroad.
In 1909 they shipped with difficulty.
because OF lack OF railroad facilities, 37,-
900 tons OF gilsonite Last year the de-
out $4,000 tons. This year they will ship
more than 100 900 tons. And, sir. II this
100000 tons of gilsonite right now from
Uintah basin and shipping II into Denver
You talk of railroads" he said why,
no railroad proposition was ever con-
There is no desert problem about this
proposition There arc the Wasatch