Show ANOTHER ROAD GOM1NG D1 R G to Tap Utah Coal Measures V JOHN W GATES INTERESTED I 1 i The Iron and Steel Stagnate Hns V Coal Lands In County l Bought Emery COU ty to Develop There the Iron of Iron County Suggestion of Deal V With the Clark Road Route of Now Lino and Details of Big Plan Rovlow of the Rio Grande Western Report Railroad Notes V TRIUNE SPECIAL Price Utah Dec 10The people of Emery county und of eastern Utah generally are much Interested In the Information which several persons profess pro-fess to have verified that there Is to be another line of railroad through this part of the country and which Is to I be nothing more ores than an extension ex-tension of the Denver Rio Grande V railway from Grand Junction Colo to tup the great coal measures of Emery and Stinpete counties The line would go from the present western terminus to a point near Green River Utah and then branch off to the south on through Sallna canyon to a connection with the San Pedro Loa Angeles Salt Lake Senator Clarks line The rexsons for such a line arc apparent ap-parent In the fact that the Denver Rio Grande has for months been buying buy-Ing Its coal 1 In Carbon county taking the t greater part of the output from the ncwlyopenedup mines at Sunny side Again John V Gates the barbwire barb-wire magnate as Is well known has had men here looking up the coal measures mea-sures of the county with a view of developing de-veloping the great Irondeposits of Iron countyand made a substantial offer I 1 for the Sunnyeldo properties before they passed Into the hands of the Plea J J sant Valley company Falling to get hose which aio most valuable for the coking piopcrtles of the coal he sent men Into Emery county and he Is be leved to have found what he was looking look-Ing for In Ferron andHlntlngton canons II can-ons Gates wants an outlet for his Iron on the PaclJlo coast and will have this In the building of the San Pedro Los Aii geleo Sjalt Lake road which will come within a very few miles If not actually penetrate his Iron miners From he nearest point on the Senator Clark road If the Denver Rio Grande did not actually build to n connection with Il Mr Gates would construct a branch of his own In order to get to the coal In fact It Is stated that Gates has long had In mind the development of his Iron properties by the building of an Independent line to the coast with branches Into the coal fields of this part of the State So confident are the people of Emery county thai this Is the deal that num bClS of them Interested In coal measures mea-sures say that at the meeting of the I directors of the Senator Clark line I which Is i to be held In St Louis on the 18th of the present I month Mr Gates will be present and confer there with the directors as to trafllc arrangements and other details of his plans and that IC an understanding is not then reached Incorporation papers will be filed for another Pacific coast line with Mr Gates and other steel and wire mae I nates at its head Mr Gales Is l said to be closely associated asso-ciated with Richard C Kerens first vicepresident of the San Pedro Los Angeles Salt Lake and It Is I further believed he and Kcrens are behind the work of securing eighteen sections of coal lands belonging to the national Government and lying between Price and Huntington some of which adjoins coal measures of the Pleasant Valley Coal company up toward Scofield This tract would be exchanged through a trfido between the Stale of Utah anti thd United States These surveys have been worked upon the greater part of the summer by J C Dick a wellknown promoter whose home Is In Salt Lake City |