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Show IBM IMH aAlf T,ake Route Abandons Uintah Uin-tah Basin Project in Favor of This Branch Line. WILL EXTEND FROM LUND TO KAIBAB FOREST An Important and Much Neglected Section at Last is Promised Transportation Facilities. (Salt Lake Herald-Republican.) Abandonment of the plans of the Salt Lake Route to extend a branch line into the Uintah basin was re ported in railroad circles yesterday to , be the result of a decision on the part of the official board of the railroad to mak" preparations to extend a branch line down through southern Utah from Lund as far as the Ktiibab na-j na-j tional forest, touching all important 7 points en route. A survey for the line H it is reported will be started within m a few weeks. l Attorney C. B. Stewart said that the 4,i project of reclaiming more than 40,- yf 000 acres of semitropical arid land Si west of Hurricane, Washington coun sel ty, by establishing a sorie; of storage ak dams on the Rio Virgin, has been Riv- 3 en new life as the result of indications X that the Salt Lake Route intends build- H, ing a southern Utah line. As soon as Si the railroad starts buildine this line, Mm it is said, capitalists will be ready to H invest more than $1,000,000 in the M Rio Virgen Project. MM. In addition, numerous timbering H companies, including the Eccles Lum- H ber company, and other concerns in I U., the northwest, are reported to hae Httjf dispatched their timber rruigors ' make a special inv-'stiuratlon "f the Oi Kaibab national forest. This, it is I ' said, is entirely the result of reliable li assurance that the Salt Lake Route wf 1. intends building a branch railroad 1 1 down into the Dixi country. II The forest service departnv tit nn- 1 nounced more than two years ago that 1 the timber in the Kaibab national for- l est had matured, was ready for rut- T ting and would be sold to the highest F bidder. 1 Immediately after the announce- B ment speculation became rife of the l building of a railroad branch line to 1 that section. It is said that predic- ' tions that the road would be built by 1 the Salt Lake Route are now about to 41 materialize. f Saya It Will Pav. 1 "The building of a railroad down ILo through southern Utah from Lund will If " result In the establishment of one of V the best pavinir branch lines in the -4 west," said Dr. Ernest Green of Cedar -' M City, during a visit in Salt Lake. "The Mr buildine of a steam railroad will meun , g the extension of electric lines. J While a branch line extended south 1 from Lund would penetrate the most Jf extensive iron fields of Iron county it would also touch the new coal fields If in Little Salt Lake pap, recently op- 1' ened by R. A. Kirker of Parowan, a coal mininp expert, who has filed on jl the coal lands in the United States y Land Office in Salt Lake. Less than eighteen mileB Bouth of tl is coal prop- j erty is the new coal discovery made 1 by Dr. Green of Cedar City, and it is reported that new beds of anthracite I coal have been discovered alonp the proposed route twentw miles north of Hurricane. It is reported in railroad circles that officials of the Denver & Rio Grande have under consideration the early extension ex-tension of a railroad into the Uintah basin by way of Helper and Indian canyon. This railroad recently filed rights of way from Duchesne to Ver-nla Ver-nla in the United States land office. |