Show INTEREST iN SUHVEYS The Southern Pacific Denies l 1 Knowledge of Kelton Line MYStERY SURROUNDS WORK Idaho Scene of Great Activity in Preliminary Lines No One Known What Kelton Survey Means Idaho Midland Doing a Great Amount of Work Colorado Wants Pullman Company to Pay Up More Money for Incorporation Fee New Oregon Line Road t Republic ITotos The Southern Pacific officially denies that its surveyors are laying l out that line from Kelton Utah north into Idaho to tap some valuable mining districts dis-tricts As there is no doubt that some railroad Is behind the survey the question ques-tion as to which oneof the big systems is behind the project Is quite InterestIng Interest-ing to railroad men Thc Oregon Short Line is naturally anxious to know who ordered the surveys as the line would eventually be 3 competitor of that system Its local officials however know nothing of the matter Thc presence pres-ence of the Burlington surveyors who entered Idaho from its southeast corner cor-ner wa fully known but no great attention at-tention was given it at first as It was looked upon in the light that preliminary prelimi-nary surveys are ever regarded But the survey from Kelton northward has been so quietly made and its promoters pro-moters so carefully concealed that an Impression has gained ground that there is something Important behind it though what no one has yet been found who can or will divulge the plans Idaho at present has probably more surveyors at work on new projects and preliminary lines than any of the Intermountain In-termountain States The O R Nand N-and Northern Pacific forces In the north of the Slate have been temporarily tempo-rarily withdrawn owing to an armistice armis-tice in the fight for territory but the Idaho Midland is extremely active and In the southern part of the State several sev-eral mysterious outfits have been causing caus-ing suspicion A man Just down from Idaho states that confidence is freely expressed In the Idaho Midland plans and that the road will prove n much more extensive one than has been dreamed of |