“You can depend." said he “that
work will positively be commenced
ou the north and south railroad
this fall. We have the money.
All our plans were perfected be
fore the financial depression came,
and it will not cut any figure with
our people. The work will prob
ably be commenced at the south
end of the line.”
“I am not at liberty to state just
the route that will be followed, but
the road will pass through some
of the greatest coal and iron lands
in the world, not to mention the
great soda lakes and oil fields in
ihe Sweetwater country.
“Wyoming is indeed a wonder
fully rich state. You don't think,
do you, that the American people
I are going to let such vast resourc
,es lie undeveloped forever? Fi
-1 nancial panics do not detract from
j the value of the wonderful depos
' its of mineral of all kinds in cen
tral Wyoming.
“Every member of the company
I represent, with the exception of
ex-Governor Campbell, is worth
at least a million and a half. Over
$250,000 has been spent in the
i purchase of mineral lands in that
I section, and now’ it is proposed to
! develop them.
| “It is not the purpose of the
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company to do much advertising.
