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Show FROM LOS AXGKLKS TIMES A short dispatch last week informed inform-ed the public that the Interstate Commerce Commissioif had granted permission for th Union Pacific system sys-tem to build thirty-two miles of track from Lund to Cedar City. Utah. This apparently unimportant item ot news means that Los Angeles is to gain two things a new industry and a new playground The industry is iron, something the Southwest lacks, and by its fundamental fund-amental nature will mean an aid to nearly all other industries for steel is the Uterometer of industry. Vast iron deposits, said to be the greatest in the world, will be opened up by Los Angeles interests and the product pro-duct shipped here for distribution. The playground is Zion National park and the district about it, already al-ready visited by motorists. The hign-ways hign-ways will be extended and hotels established es-tablished on the Yellowstone plan, while the railway will make possible a popular resort. In discussing the plans of the road yesterday, Marion deBrabant, assistant assis-tant traffic manager of the railway, who made one of the surveys of the terrain, said that the resort features should he ready next summer, when the railway spur will have been built Both passenger and freight service will be maintained on the line. Mr. deBrabant said that five hotels would be established at Cedar, Cedar Breaks Bryce canyon. North Rim Grand canyon can-yon and Zion National Park. The same system as was worked so successfully suc-cessfully in Yellowstone Park, with all its features will be put in. including includ-ing stage lines. |