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Show A RAILROAD FOR FILLMORE ASSURED The Salt (Lake, Fillmore and Kanosh Railroad Company filed articles of incorporation in-corporation yesterday. Tte capital stock is 500,000, in shares of the par value of $100 each. Provo is the con: panys general place of husintss. The object of the incoroporatlon is to build a railroad from iLynndyl on the L, A. and S.'.L, railroad southeasterly by way of Holden, Fillmore and Meadow to Kanosh, a distance of 50 miles. The Incorporators are W. 8. McCornick, president of the (McCornick Banking Co. of Salt 'Lake, T. D. Kimball, of LSalt Lake, president of the Sevier Land and Water company; George W. Craig"", i. Geo. E. Robison, A. V. iRcbison, Alva Nelson, !Lee (L. Baker, Dr. Walter T. Hasler, W. I Biersach, IL. B. Buxton, G. J. Carpenter and N. C. Spaulding, all of Provo. The following are the directors and officers': Geo. W. Craif. president; F. D. Kimball, vice president; "Alva Nelson, Nel-son, treasurer; W . McCornick, G. J. Carpenter, Geo. W. Robison, W. L. Biersach. A. V. Robison is the secretary. secre-tary. , , Surveyors began -work Tuesday, establishing es-tablishing the grade south from 'Lynn-dyl, 'Lynn-dyl, and construction work is expected to begin .May 1. The company is fully financed and it is the intention to have the road in operation in time to move this year's crops from the large farming farm-ing district through which it passes. The road will be a standard gauge, single track steam road. It passes through a rich agricultural country, much of which is undeveloped, undevelop-ed, but for which irrigation facilities are now being provided by flowing wells and otherwise. The Sevier Land and Water Company will furnish water for 30,000 acres and residents of Dese-ret Dese-ret have bought 6,000 acres of this land, which will be brought under cultivation cul-tivation this spring. IA total of about 100,000 acres of new land, of excellent quality, is expected to be farmed within with-in the next two years, in addition to the large acreage which has been cultivated cul-tivated for years. IA sugar factory is assured for 1919, and it is fully expected ex-pected that other sugar factories will be built. The rarilroad compnny has made investigation in-vestigation of the extension of the road from Lynndyl northwest, about 25 miles to the Deseret Mountain and Dugway mining districts, and a final examination of this district is now being be-ing made. It is fully expected that this extension of the new road will be made. Mr.' Craig, who is an experienced railroad man, has had the project under un-der consideration, for about a year, as the field seemed to him the most promising for a feeder railroad ot any in the western country. A few months ago he interested Salt Lake and Provo Pro-vo men and after a thorough, examination examina-tion of the conditions it was decided to organize arid push the project to completion as rapidly as possible. |