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Show THE RAILROADS OF UTAH. Utah Is well supplied with railways. It has an outlet to the f-ast over the nph-ndldly equipped Union Pacific coming in from I he north and the Rio (iraiid', the scenic line of the west, coming through the mountains of Colorado Col-orado and entering the state near Price. The Moffat road running to the north of the Rio (irnnde and now under un-der construction will furnish another outlet to the etst. The outlet to the north and north-' west is over the Oregon Short Llil. That to the Pud He Coast Ih over the Union Pacific und San Pedro, Los Angeles An-geles & Salt Lake railway, or "Salt Lake lioiite," ns It Is commonly called, and the recently completed Western Pacific, running south or the (ireut Salt Lake and through Nevada. Millard county Is t, rvt d by the Salt Lake Route, ami It is doing n splendid work In developing the country that Is tributary to It. Last month they Hcnt over this road n special farmers' train of seven cars furnished with nn agricultural, horticultural, dairy and Block exhibit and accompanied by a number of experts In various lines. The train stopped at every town along the route, where the farmers and their wives had a chance to seo tho exhibits and listen to lectures and demonstrations by tho experts. In Millard county the train aroused a great ileal of Interest, and fanners canio from long distances to see the exhibits and listen to tho lectures. The result of tne visit will ne more scientific scien-tific and prodtablo farming, better stock and a larger business for the rallwny. The southern part of the stale has been rather Inadequately served by railways, but this Is to be remedied. The Salt Luke Route Is now preparing prepar-ing to build a branch road from Lund, a short distance south of Millard county, to extend southward, tapping the great timber and mineral resources of southern Utah and connecting with the Santa Fe. This will open up n wonderfully rich country. Another railway In which Millard Is especially Interested Is the proposed Orand Canyon, Iron Mountain Miuth ern Railway, which will start at either Paysoti or Nephl, where both the Salt Lake Route and Rio Cianclo railways touch, will follow the east side of the Sevier valley to or near Sciplo, then by Hidden. Fillmore. Kanosh and Meadow, then on to Reaver, Cedar City and St. Ceorgo, running through a pass in the Pine Valley mountains. A branch will be run Into the Kanub forest reserve along tho border of Arizona and Utah, where, according to government estimates, there are four Lllllon feet of lumber ready for cutting. Utah has never felt the need of a railway commission. The great bulk of Its traffic is Interstate transposition, transposi-tion, which can be adequately supervised super-vised by tho Interstate Commerce Commission. Whatever grievances there are over local freight rates are adjusted bitween the commercial bodies bod-ies of the state und the railway officials, of-ficials, and the latter have always been ready to remedy any injustice that may be disclosed. It was by this means that a reduction was secured last fall on the rates for hauling coal. The rnilwa.vs have also given very generous stop-over privileges in Utah to transcontinental tiaveleis. The railway recognize that only by reasonable rea-sonable rat s r an the great lesounvn of Utah be built up and the business of the roads be Increased, while the people recognize that any unnecessary hatupi ring of the operations of the railways restric ts the development of these I -Mdtrces. |