Show is CHEATING iNTEREST Warner Millers Project the Subject for Speculation ADMITS PLANS ARE MATURING urthcr Details of the Chicago Railroad Rail-road Organization Senator W A Clark of Montana Jilay be One of the BackersSalt Lake Ogden Again Mentioned and that Heads I Local Activity in Buying Land Significance of Other Recent Local Moves I Inquiries are heard dully from railroad rail-road and business men as to the latest Sail LakeCalifomla line which Warner War-ner Miller Is supposedly bacl inS Not only aro local people Interested but Eastern llnanclers are eager for details de-tails That something Is in the airS air-S there Is not a particle of doubt hut local railroad officials when questioned I profess to know nothing of the project pro-ject The Tribune in Its dispatches gave tho Chicago Record story and I subsequently the Chicago Chronicles article with other comment The Record Rec-ord has a later story however which shows that the Milwaukee Southwestern South-western will be Incorporated that It I will servo as a link In the new transcontinental I trans-continental line and that exSenator I Miller and Col James McNaught are behind It The latter Is i a railroad attorney at-torney He Is promoter and builder of the Great Northern Canada Mr Miller in an Interview with the Record Rec-ord admits that the success of the plan is practically settled The same paper again mentions the Salt Lake Ogden and in conclusion reiterates that sew I oral Western capitalists arc back of the project among whom are men I prominently connected with Western I and Southern railways All these facts and hints and repeated statements state-ments have set local people guessing and while they are still In tho dark the I bellcf Is general that the line will be r built I SALT LAKE OGDEN The fact that the Salt Lake Ogden road Is so frequently mentioned coupled with recent movements of that road have led to the belief that Pres i i Ident Bamberger knows I more than he has told of the latest railroad scheme i I A few days ago the Salt Lake Ogden Og-den started condemnation proceedings I against Thomas W Jennings to obtain some ground for terminal purposes On I Saturday a lot on the same street was I transferred to the railroad company for the same purpose The Devoreaux property Jennings estate lies pext the Salt Lake Ogden station and It I has been hinted that some railroad Is milling to buy the whole tract I i I It te no secret that the eighteenmile I road has the most valuable city franchise fran-chise for some future through line and that the present activity Is a move for the future rather than for tho present IR proved by the fact that the Salt Lake it Ogden already has ground enough for Us terminal IS SENATOR CLARK IN IT I Senator W A Clark of Montana has II said that he Is ready to bulk the Salt Lakf Los Angeles link This fact was i brought out a year ago In these columns when W H Ilolabird was here on railroad business Ilolabird had just negotiated the Santa Ana Newport It New-port railway deal for J toss Clark and I W A Clark at Los Angeles He was here twice and secured complete data rovcrlnc the several lines connecting the Rio Grande Western and Utah Pacltlc with the Santa Fe as well as data covering an Independent line from S Salt I Lake to San Diego S Senator Chirk has so much money that he prol ably finds it hard to properly prop-erly Invest It He Is at present owner S of one railroad and his Interests in theft the-ft are so vast that the line Mould greatly boneflt him By tills time he undoubtedly knows that the line south vest would be easy to build cheap to operate and the returns would he inestimable in-estimable In view of new conditions In time Pacillc With these facts In view it is not at all unlikely that Senator ClarJt Is one ° C Lh Westerners Inter tstedOTHER OTHER MYSTERIOUS MOVES been Thomas Taylor of Cedar City has negotiating with Enstcroers for the sale oC his coal and Iron ll11c13 In Iron county 011 the route to lower Call lomla The Colorado Fuel Iron company on a hint from Chicago 511 weeks ao imaci its ksiaK agent take buy similar up and lands In the same COUnt The Liters have Interested themselves county In Iron C ° Unly through the Hemingway coking process and ome private ne CotUtlons have bem made with Presi dent Bruback of the Sanpete Vallev This road Is also In a direct line for California and has two coal mines one SW and one being worked Like the Salt Lake e Ogden Its franchises and property are very valuable al though but a small local line The Utah Pacific as mentioned recently Is preparing to send out a surveying party early this spring to go over the route between Uvada and the Santa Fo tracks and lastly the Rio Grande Wcsu I crn Is quickly building southward from Bolnap to Marysvale while Its sur I voyorji have run lines clear to Iron county There was no need of the sur vey unless the company proposes to I build for Its cnglnoiTa like The Trib une certainly have blue prints and pro files of preliminary surveys What all these moves mean can point I to hut one result the completion of tho link between the City oC Saints and the City of Angels RESOURCES OF THE LINE The resources of the hue have been frequently described but a brief repe tition will be Interesting at thlr time Ioremost among the future products oC southern Utah are coal Iron and sulphur of which there are Incxhnust able supplies Live stock Is plentiful Tropical fruits are grown In Washing ton count Mlillo In Nevada from Ploche and Deer Lodge and De La Mar I clear down to Vanderbllt arc mines of various kinds all of which would give good tonnage returns with development following a railroad The through tourist travel Mould bo valuable and with a branch to tho Grand canyon It Mould become a noted line for sightseers and above all the through traffic for the Orient and Paci I fic points Mould be a great revenue for a railroad |