Show LOOKS U LIKE KE ROAD WILL ILL Sf BE BUILT l of of the Utah Pacific Line i FIELDS ARE AltE T TO BE TAPPED D DI I I Return of President M From the South Re to o p Plans and Devel Developments Developments But Intimates That t Something Big is 1 On Has a s Con Conference j j ference ferance With ith Pre i Burt of the I k Union Pacific and aad Manager Ban Bancroft Bancroft 1 croft of the Short I ine Jaunt Across tho the Desert 6 There are indications that the th Utah U h Pacific will branch out in the th near i future future to the extent of offsetting CoUts P designs in this state stater by y r building towards Arizona send fur further further ther run a n branch line down to Cedar C ar J City in order to tap the vast coal and andiron andiron andiron iron fields that lie in the vicinity of or that settlement It is a fact that capital capitalists ceJ tal ista have had their eyes upon Iron county for years past as a spot where wherein in to Invest their th ir capital to make m ke the I properties pr pay handsome returns The coal In that region is 18 naturally adapt adapted adapted I ed ed for the manufacture of coke and the introduction of coke ovens in the vi vicinity of Cedar City in conjunction tI n with nth the vast deposits of iron that crop out out of the ground on all aU sides shies is only needed n eded to make that district the Penn Pennsylvania PennI Pennsylvania sylvania S of the west as is soon as there is 15 a railroad built in there I That a road would be eventually built into that region has been con conceded conI conceded I I ceded to be but a matter of time and now that the president of the Utah Pacific company with the general su superintendent superintendent sup p of the Oregon Short Line have spent several days in driving over the proposed route and looking into i the resources of the iron fields gener generally generally ener I ally everything points n the direction of f the vast riches of southern Utah be being lug ing opened up Something Likely to Drop The Th developments in the railroad sit situation in Uh are crowding one upon pon the other othe at a rate calculated dw to b i mattia a with th result I SUlt t Oi t r ir In several zever i tl ris in hL it a fashion that will wm necessitate n h it t the ant ance e of new railroad maps as far as as state is concerned Owing to the feet that dent W H Bancroft of or the Oregon Or on onI I Short Line Lne wired President Al A A W V Mc McCune McI McCune Cune of the Utah Pacific that he would Duld be unable to meet him at Uvada I this morning as business had called him up to Portland P President McCune in company with General Superintendent Superintendent Superintendent E E B Calvin CalYin of the Short Line sam am to town in order to meet Mr Bancroft ancroft ft upon his return from the coast Another significant coincidence was the arrival in town at noon yesterday T of Qt President Horace C Burt General GenerallI Manager lI nager E Dickinson and J B Ber fler Berry Berry ry 17 chief c engineer of the Union Pacific who came in quietly on President Burts palatial private car When seen yesterday President Burt stated st t d that there was no significance to be attached to his visit to ZIon be beyond beyond beyond yond the fact that he was here on his I usual tour of inspection and would stay in the city until this afternoon when he would return to Omaha As soon as the car came to town the three officials drove to the Short Lne Line offices where they were closeted with General Manager W H Bancroft and andE E E Calvin Later in the day President President President dent A W McCune called on the party and spent considerable time in iii their company President McCune Talks When een seen last night President Mc McCune McCune Cune stated that the story published In Inthis inthis Inthis I this column on Friday morning was correct to the extent that General Su Calvin and himself had I been over the Utah Pacific road dur during d r ring ing lug the past week and that they expect expected ed cd Mr Bancroft to have met them at Uvada today but owing to delays the latter had wired them to the effect that he would not be able to get home in time Ume However he said Mr Bancroft came camo in sooner than he expected and but butor for the fact that we were comine up to t Salt SaU Lake today he would have joined j us in the south When asked whether it was a fact that the Utah Pacific would com corn commence mence me nce ce pushing on towards Chloride Arizona with the object in view of closing up the gap and opening the road to Los Angeles he stated that he could not at the present time give any anything anything anything thing out for publication In course cours of further conversation he said saidI I 41 r I met Mr Calvin at Milford where we procured a team and placed the same ame Jaine on a car ear to proceed to Lund LundI Prom Pram that point we drove across the I desert to Cedar City where we made an exhaustive examination of the iron ron prop properties in that district to eventually proceed P ro e e d to Moneda where we took the II train home 4 Although Mr McCune McCun was not ure pre prepared paved pared p r tI to talk upon the significance of I trip in the direction of o the th opening ope ning up of the biggest Iron and coke colte oven over industries in the west at the same time he characterized the Jaunt as M being tn in th the nature of one of the biggest news newspaper paper p pet sensations that has ever occurred in Utah It seems that the desire of the resi residents residents residents dents of the flourishing little burg of Cedar City after years of weary wait waitIng Ing l is about to be consummated d and that they will sIll before a great length pUne Of time be put in iI touch with the out outside side world by the means of the intro introduction Introduction m of the iron horse Into Iron counts countr |