Show I SPLENDID DOMAIN RAilROAD I Territory From Marysvale Maryvale t to Junction and on South Is Wonderfully Fertile CITIZENS MAKE A REPORT PROSPECT OF OP BRANCH BRANC OR MAIN MAINLINE MAINLINE MAINLINE LINE BEING BUILT Special to The Junction May 21 Gearon and Rust who are Investigating the practicability of building a railroad south from Marysvale rys ale to ta Junction along the east and west fork tork ot of the theSe Se Sevier Sevier vier Ier river recently asked certain lead leadIng leadIng leading Ing citizens for tor or a report about the country Below is the report compiled by E E Sprague John D Morrill John T Luke C P Bal son John K If Stoney S W Brinkerhoff and D H IL Robinson Foremost among the many prosper prosier prosperous ous villages along the Sevier river Is the town of Junction It Is the county seat of Plute Pluto county and ana an is a very thriving little village of inhabit inhabitants inhabitants inhabitants ants situated In the central pat part of Plute Piute county sixteen miles south of Marysvale the southern terminus us of ot the Rio Grande Western Vestern railroad and near the junction of the east and south forks of the Sevier evier liver ilver from which it derives derles its It name Among its various resources are acres of fawning farming land with a No 1 water wat r right at present chiefly cultivated for nay and small grains but which would be ideal for sugar beet heet culture and hundreds of thousands of tons f sugar beets could and very likely would be raised if It there was railroad ad transportation to convey them to market It has the most mod modern modern modera ern era and house in southern Utah has in tn elegant legant school building and maintains a graded school with four tour departments and school population Fine Flee Water Sy System iem It has a fine tine water system Installed and the people turn their taps In their houses and drink from the pure moun tain tam stream The people have taken a pride In good homes that are free from mortgage with village streets and sidewalks It Jt has the only cheese nh ft z L cheese nh ft z L factory in the south and puts out an article that commands the high highest highest highest est market price in the state and we wish to say in connection with this that the people of Junction are awake in the farm tarm dairy daI and poultry business and are looking to the raising of pure vure bred cattle horses and poultry It has four thriving mercantile establish establishments establishments establishments ments that are doing a good and profit profitable profitable profitable able business Three miles east of ot the town Is a good roller mill that supplies the neighborhood as well as most of the east and south with flour and other roller mill commodities Within four miles mites there Is a good water power site from where power should be supplied with very small cost Junction Is IB the very ver heart of a great eat mineral belt which Is practically un developed and unexplored some som large and promising mineral bodies have been discovered on either side of the town but In the main no mining has been done and the great grent gre t mineral wealth only waits walts the mystic touch of the railroad to induce prospectors and cap ca ital to transform the haunts haunt of the coy coyotes coyotes coyotes otes and the mountain sheen Into busy hus districts of life lite Industry and wealth e lt With a railroad Junction would be become become become come one of ot the greatest pleasure re resorts resorts sorts Borts in the west It has two large res reservoirs reservoirs the Otter creek and the th Plute Piute within easy r reach rach ach cf of o the town lown where Wishing fishing and duck luck shooting Is Ideal trout that th t weigh 10 to 12 pounds Is a very common catch catchIs la Is T Land of plenty On top of the mountain west of June Junc J nc tion is the beautiful Buffers lake that abounds in native lake trout Here the tourist in the heat of or the summer may enjoy boat riding and fishing and In hale the healthful breeze from the snowcapped mountain peaks The east fork of the Sevier SeVle river is the natural outlet of all the country countr east and southeast of Junction as far tar faras taras faras as the Colorado river a distance of miles by wagon road roads covering vast areas of farm tarm and grazing land with numerous villages which supports head of sheep and head of cattle In this vast ast un undeveloped Undeveloped developed d country lie thousands of acres of good coal and timber lands that hat are likewise waiting for tor railroad transportation and all this must come comeby comeby comeby by way vay of Junction miles mUes southeast of Junction with all its It freight traffic and travel coming this way vay is Johns Valley Valle which like magic is coming Into settlement and cultivation It has bas acres a res of ot farming land which In the last three months has been taken up at the rate of ot acres per vel month There are great opportunities here In farming mining dairying cattle sheep and poultry raising and citizens think that a railroad would give gIe that impetus to the country countI that would make nake It ft wealthy and a desirable place In to live and also that In a 2 short period of time it would return a handsome profit to the railroad com company company compary pany pary S |