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Show MILLARD COUNTY EAGER. Committee Gets San Pedro to Promise to Survey Through County. (Sundn) n Dilly ) A committee, consisting of James A. Melville, V. W. Kelly nnd Alma Greenwood, Green-wood, appointed by tho County Commissioner) Com-missioner) and residents of the various towns In the eastern part of Millard county, were Jubilant vtaterday afternoon after-noon ovsr tho prospect that the Ban Pedro, Los Angeles &. Bait Lake railroad rail-road will ctoss their section of coun-tr coun-tr Member of the committee jes-terda jes-terda met with Chief Engineer McCartney Mc-Cartney and, nftei listening to their report, Mr. McCartney agreed to not only make a personul trip ovtr the proposed pro-posed route, but to send out engineers In tho near future to make a preliminary prelimi-nary survey, Tho toule proposed by the committee Is from Leamington via Oak Creek. Holdcn. I'lllmore. Meadow and Knnnsh to Mllrord, a district ot country which Is Inhabited by'6010 people, peo-ple, nnd which members of the committee com-mittee say will furnish not only a laige passenger traffic, but will lend tn the development of rich quaities of ted sindstone, gspsum, ele , with which the district abounds, nnd therefore furnish a liree freight tralllo to the. road The district which the proposed lino would traverse is rather Isolated from tho lalltoads, and would pass between the two routes now In operation In that pirt of the State Members of tho committee claim that the route would not only ho shortu than tho ono nl-roadv nl-roadv proposed for the new toute, but that a firmer, better roadbed would bo found than thn one now owned by tho Oregon Short Lino the soli of the lat-ter, lat-ter, according to the eomtnlttee, being rilled with alkali, which has a tendency lo destroy tics, rails nnd mar- nery, Messis Melville, Kelly ur Greenwood Green-wood have discussed the n ler with Messrs. Kerens, Reams a. Clark, J Ross Clark Reed Smoot T B Gibbons Gib-bons and C O Whlttmore nil of whom they say were favorabls Im prF.n,I Bnd the committee will return to Millard county on Tuesday next more hopeful than they have ever jet been that when the route of the Bin Pedto Los Angeles el Bait Lake rail roid Is Anally determined upon It will be through that pot Hon of Millard county outlined bv them nt their meeting meet-ing with Mr McCartney jesterday |