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Show 5ALI LUKE ROAD 10 BUOBLWIGH L. A. AND 8. L. ROUTE APPLIE8 FOR LINE FROM DELTA TO FILLMORE. UTAH Branch Line to Be Built Into Millard County end Will Tap Rich Agricultural Section of State; Application Filed Salt Lako. Copies of tho application applica-tion of tho Los Angolos & Salt Uku rnllroad to tho Intorstato commerce commission for a permit to construct u branch lino of tho railroad In Mil-Inrd Mil-Inrd county hno bcon recoUod by the public utilities commission and by Governor Gov-ernor Charles It. Maboy. No appllca-tlon, appllca-tlon, It Is held by local counsel of tho road, Is nocessary to bo obtainod from the stnto public utilities commission. commis-sion. Tho petition filed In Washing-ton Washing-ton roads in port, as follows: "That permission Is desired to ro-tnln ro-tnln tho excess onrnlngs derived from such new lino. "That the roasons why tho present and futuro convenlonco und necessity roquiro or will require the proposed construction ore iib follows: "Tho territory truversod by the proposed pro-posed now lino Is not now sorved by n rnllroad. Formerly u grazing country, coun-try, it Is becoming un important agricultural agri-cultural section, duo to tho land being brought under Irrigation. A considerable consid-erable portion of tho lands which will be servod by tho proposed lino nro at present undor cultivation and a groat many additional ucros will soon be placed under Irrigation by means of projocts now in course of development and construction. Tho torrltory, therefore, there-fore, will requtro rnllroad transportation transporta-tion service for tho markoting of Its products." The filing is mndo pursuant to a decision de-cision of tho bourd of directors on April 2. Tho routo und terminal of tho now branch nro doscrlbod us follows fol-lows In the application: "From the town of Delta to tho 'town of Flllmorr, a distance or approximately ap-proximately thlrty-flvo miles. It will not pass through uny Incorporated Incor-porated towns or villages botweon the tormlul. Tho application is signed by g. It. Gray, as president of tho company. Tho blue print of the routo uccom-pnnylng uccom-pnnylng tho application indicates that after leaving tho Delta Btntlon In un oxtended S curve the lino will run straight ns nn nrrow to a point near North Chalk crock, two miles directly direct-ly north of tho northern Inmndnrles of Fillmore, when tho line runs directly south to a point one mllo south of tho snmo boundary lino. The stato law, as passod In Octobor, 101!), at tho apodal session of the leg-lslaturo, leg-lslaturo, provides that railroad corporations corpor-ations within tho control of the commission com-mission that Is, doing an intrastate business shall apply for a cortiflcuto of convenlonco und necessity from tho stnto commission also "provided that this section shall not be ennstruod to roquiro any such corporation to socure such certificate for nn extension within with-in nny cltyt or town within which it shall have horetofore lawfully commenced com-menced oporatlons, or for an extension exten-sion Into territory within or without a city or town contiguous to Itu railroad rail-road and not heretofore served by a public utility of like character, or, for an extension within or to territory ul-rondy ul-rondy sorved by It, nocessary in the ordinary course of business." The present branch lino Is probably tho first to como undor this section sinco tho law was passed, although tho main lino of tho Salt Lake & Denver Den-ver Railroad company obtained n certificate cer-tificate undor tho same section. |