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Show LUND BRANCH AUTHORIZED Washington, Oct. 21 The interstate inter-state comnierce commission has is sued a certificate of public convenience conveni-ence and necessity authorizing the Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad to build a thirty-two mile branch from Lund, on the main line, to Cedar City in Iron county, Utah, the commission being convinced that the proposed branch Is necessary to the development develop-ment of the iron deposits of Iron county and essential to the development develop-ment of tourist travel to' the Utah parks and the north rim of the Grand canyon. It also is convinced that the building of this road would aid the development of a large territory whose growth has been retarded by lack of rail facilities. In its statement of reasons for granting the certificate, the commission commis-sion in part says: "It Is claimed that the development of the territory has been retarded by 'he lack of transportation facilities. With the exception of the applicant's main line, there Is no railroad within with-in seventy miles of the route of the proposed branch line. The applicant anticipates that there will be a rapid increase. in the cultivated area as scon as the proposed line is constructed. construc-ted. Around Iron Springs, a point on the proposed line twenty-two miles from Lund, there are deposits of iron ore estimated to contain 400, 000,000 tons. |