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Show I lull l uunly ami (lie I S. t.K. When the president and boa nl of directors of the Utah Southern railroad rail-road offered to Utah county some JvtX) share of stock in the mad. payment to he made in grading, grad-ing, tieing, and other work on tho line, the leading men of the county saw the importance of taking advantage ad-vantage of the offer. At the meeting in Alpine, on Sat unlay last, reported in Sunday morning's daily Hkkat.u, most of the stock was suUscribcd for. but it was found not to be equally divided among the settlements of the county, and it was then propositi to appoint a committee of thirteen to make an apportionment offering to each place its fair proportion of slock; the committee being authorized to take the full amount of stock otlered. The following gentlemen formed the committee thus appointed and authorized autho-rized : David Evans, Lehi; L. E. llarring-1 llarring-1 ton, American Fork; George Halii-J Halii-J day, Pleasant Grove; T. J. McCul-lough, McCul-lough, Alpine; J. H. Milncr, Provo; 1 Win. Bringhurst, Springville; C. W. Wilkins, Spanish Fork; Kolx-rt j Davis, Salem; Orrawell Simon, Fay-son; Fay-son; D. H. Flolladay. S.intaijuin; Y. Price, Goshen; John Carson, Fairfield; H. F. Cook, Cedar Fort. The committee met, after their appointment, ap-pointment, apportioned the stock, and selected agents to take contracts; and after the farmers get their crops gathered they will commence and prepare for the iron that portion of the road which the company wish graded and tied immediately. The people of Provo expect to come to the October conference by rail, and some of them have been speculating to the extent of sundry prospective liats, suits of clothes, and pairs of boots, on the expectation. As we understand it, there is nodilii-culty nodilii-culty in disposing of the stock in Utah county, on the terms oflered, many gentlemen being desirous of possessing possess-ing more than would come to them under the apportionment; so that I should any settlement decline its full j share of stock, there are numbers anxiously anx-iously waiting to Like it. The advantages advan-tages that the completion of the U. S. R. II. to Payson would confer upon the county, and the entire southern portion of the Territory are very great, and assure ils being a paying properly from the first. Those who travel on the road to-day know something of the large freight r.nd passenger Ira flic between Sandy and this city. Extend the road to Payson, and it offers facilities to Thitie and Xelxi, as well as Camp Floyd, giving them advantages for development similar in part to those now enjoyed by Little Cottonwood and Bingham; while, were it extended to Xephi, those advantages for the vast low grade deposits of 01 e ii) Mount Xebo would be most materially increased: and the entire traffic of southern Utah and southeastern Xevada, would be a source of revenue and a stimulus stimu-lus to commerce greater than most people now have any idea of. The completion of the road even to Provo is a matter of the greatest importance to the entire cunty; and we hope to see our friends about conference time, and to make the trip to the Tinipan-agos Tinipan-agos by rail. |