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Show Railroad Talk. We made mention in one last utn A a railroad rumor that wat all out In the columns of some of our conteropo. ram-N, feeling thnt It was scarcely worth the trouble! bnt Judging by th way the papers nearest the lepnted scene of action are talking there may be more Jn it than we thought. The follo'vlng taken from the Hio)if)eld flenptr, which concludes nu article In that paper on the probability of u road being built aouih from Mnrysvnle. seems to contain something doflnlto on the matter. ' A I'OSITIVR GO" Since the above was pnt in type'' in ne positive information has become public. There is no doubt about the move. Tho company has awarded a eontni' t to Ktlpatrick llros-.t Collins to build a railroad from Mtirysrato t I'arowan, a distance of about 70 miles, and this week the contractors are ox-p.'ded ox-p.'ded to begin 'sending down outflij to establish nt least 50 camps along tlie proposed line of grading. Contracts Con-tracts for furnishing supplies h.ivo also been let. and thu matter has now assumed as-sumed thb aspect of a certainty. Till! PIIOIIAIUjR UOUTB It Is not yet positively known the. exact route of the line, btit It will follow fol-low the Sevier river up through IMote County, Into (iarllehl piolmbly to Orion" and follow the rher acerosa tho range Into Iron cot'ntj , and thence on to I'arowan. I'ar-owan. It will then cross t the 'ron mines of the ' ,oi uln I uul & 'Iro i oomp'in). a disl m. cf a out :'u milts from l'aroivon, Tho Santa fe will also push a line into Iron county from Orauil canyon, or If engineering obstacles are encountered, encoun-tered, from some other point of its jikiJ'i Jititt., The Santa I'o has pictured pictu-red lo extend a branch line to the Iron mountain count!)' of southwestern Utah. It w'ill meet the Mo Orund at that poi ii. HIU UUTOPFS, ' The Salina cut-off is tiJiccIevc fur-tiler fur-tiler attention at once also. Not alone that, but another big cut-off is content-plated content-plated from Denver to Salina. These two cut of fs will shoiten tho distance from Denver to Salina over 300 miles, and give the Gould lines u shorter lino accrosfi tho Inter-unnntaln country than any of its competitors. It certain now that one of the biggest big-gest railroad projects in the West is under un-der way, and a big change Is on tho wing. |