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Show ' U.S. COURT TO -:" REVIEW SALE OF MOFFAT ROAD Supreme Tribunal To Go Over Charges That "Public Interest'' Was Not Protected In I. C. C. Rulings. According to the Denver Post, construction of the Dotsero cutoff, cut-off, and Denver & Rio Grande Wastern Railroad ownership of a. control of the Moffat road were thrown into jeopardy on January j 9, when the United States supreme court decided to review a suit brought by the Moffat Tunnel league of Colorado and the Uintah Uin-tah Basin Railroad league of this state, to block Rio Grande acquisition ac-quisition of the Moffat road. The two leagues have been . , fighting Rio Grande control of . the Moffat and construction of the cutoff on the theory that these two projects would prevent completion of the Moffat road wastward from Craig, Colorado, to Salt Lake City. In their suit which was filed by . A. L. Vogle of Denver, the two leagues charged that the interstate inter-state . commission order permitting permit-ting the Rio Grande control of the Moffat road should be declared null and void for the reason that the commission did not hold such hearings as required by law. - -. Charges were made that the com-v com-v mission refused to receive and consider material evidence. A three-judge federal court in Delaware ordered the suit of the two leagues dismissed, whereupon whereup-on they appealed to the United States supreme court. The supreme su-preme court agreed to review the controversy, which is taken to indicate in-dicate there is a substantian foundation foun-dation for the fight started by the two leagues. The fact that, the Dotsero cutoff cut-off project is so closely related to the Rio Grande's acquisition of Moffat road control which is now under attack before the U. S. supreme court may mean that work on the cutoff may be suspended, sus-pended, temporarily, at least. J. S. Pyeatt, president of the Rio Grande refused to discuss the possibility that work on the cutoff cut-off will be interrupted. If the supreme court of the ' United States should declare the . sale of the Moffat road to the Rio I Grande illegal, the situation would be complicated by the fact that the Rio Grande already has let a contract for the construction of the cutoff and is financing the project with a loan obtained from the Reconstruction Finance cor-, poration. The Rio Grande having complied with all the requirements of the I. C. C. It is problematical what effect a decision of the supreme court might have on the work now under way. The two leagues, represented by attorney Vogle of Denver, have made a hard fight for several years to prevent the acquisition of the Moffat road by the Rio Grande, realizing that the cutoff would mean that the Uintah Basin Ba-sin would seal all chances for a railroad through the Uintah Basin Ba-sin west from Craig. The Uintah Basin Railroad league, who have been fighting hard to bring around conditions that would insure a railroad through the Uintah Basin, consist of the following members: G. V. Billings, president, Fred C. Fer-ron, Fer-ron, .vice president, W. H, Paul, secretary. Executive committee: G. V. Billings, W. H. Paul, R. E. Miller, Fred C. Ferron, J. P. May, ' H. M. TidweU, J. O. Stewart, Geo. E. Guild and Heber T. Hall. . The Uintah Basin league members mem-bers and others have contributed -V considerable money and time in the Interest of a railroad through this country. |