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Show I SKIL1RI5 MAY BUILD I UINHIO I LABOR AG2NT MAY CON- TIlACT TO DO THE WORK. I Surveys Under Way Hy the I). & H. G. From Two Points On t the Mnin Line Into the Hnsln H Now Determining Grndcs HI From Price and Helper. HI Surveys under way by tho HI Denver nnd Rio Grnnde from Hi two points on the main line of HI the rond into the Uintnh Hnsln H may liavu rcmlltft ns far as the building of a railroad into that part of the state is concerned. I It was learned Inst nilii that l tho Denver and Rio Grnnde has entered into a contract with L. G. Sltlirls, labor ngont, to con- struct the rond in the event that tho Denver and Rio Grande de- H cides to build, says Sunday's H Herald-Republican. J. D. Gwyn, chief engineer for tho Denver nnd Rio Grande, is at tho Hotel Utah, and says that the company has already com- H nlctcd surveys into the Uintnh H Basin. The work which the en- D Kincers tiro doing at this time is fl for the purpose of determining H the best route. H For several years the com- H puny has had a survey througb Provo Canyon by wny of Hcber H City, but tho engineers arc now determining the grades from L Helper, Prico nnd Soldier Sum- L init to the interior of the Rnsin. H Population maps nnd tonnngo H mnps have been prepared and H soon will be in tho hnnds of the H operating nnd traffic depnjt- H ments. H Gwyn says the surveys now H under way are to determine the grades nnd that he could not H 8nv WMat would bo the result. H Shortly after tho visit of E. H L. Brown, vice president nnd in K charge of ocratlons of tho Den- H ver nnd Rio Grnnde, A. B. Ap- H person, general superintendent, nnd W. E. Wilkinson to tho Uln-H Uln-H tab Basin. L. M. Purccll, L. G. H Sklirls and J. B. Ottcnstein also H made tho trip. It was learned H last night tlint Sklirls purchased H propertv in tho vicinity of the H towns where terminals and stn H tlons might bo placed. The H deeds have not all been delivered H aa yot, but the options nnd the H contracts which were entered in-H in-H to by Sklirls are said to bo bind- ing, nnd are being taken up. H Sklirls would not comment on the story that he had purchased property along the proved right of wny nnd only smiled when questioned about the con- iract. Tho information that the land had been purchased and the contract mndo was gained from H " f to 1'atty tliat nccompan- led Sklirls on his trip. At the time it was reported that he had made Inquiries ns to what tho different towns along the pro- jvoacd routo would do in tho niut- ter of granting bonuses, free H lights of wny nnd terminal fa-H |