Show HIGH COUNTY SURVEYS Burlington Force at Work on a New Line I PARTY ALSO AT MINIDOKA It I I Preliminary Run Shows Aim to Parallel Oregon Short Line Local Situation is Daily Growing More InterestingRock Island too is Looking This WayIts Officials Hero Yesterday Altus Tunnel Heading Cut ThroughWork to bo Rushed to Completion by June 1st I The local railroad situation is becoming becom-ing decidedly Interesting The air is filled with rumors which huve considerable consid-erable foundation but what Is more Important L Is the act surveys are being actually made by one or more roads which indicate the great interest being shown In the West by the transcontinental transconti-nental lines Some days ago It was told in The Tribune that the Burlington surveyors f had entered Utah at u point west of I JSvanslon In their search for preliminary prelimi-nary lines to Salt Lake and Ogdcn It now develops that another party of Burlington men has been running lines I In 1 northwesterly direction through Rich country in the northeast corner of Utah Bear lake projects south from Idaho Into this county and the preliminary pre-liminary survey so far run strikes northwest from a point on the yon yo-n lug survey near Aim I enters TTtnh I northeast of Woodruff crosses the Bear river passes through or near Randolph Mcadowvillo Laketown and Garden Clly and northwest between Paris and Preston It further evidence la t needed that the Burlington Is seeking out a route to Portland Or In audilon to Its Utah line It can be found In the additional fact that still another Burlington party of surveyors got off the Oregon Short Line train at Mlnldoka last Saturday and at once commenced running preliminaries pre-liminaries buck toward Pocatello By locating on a map Mlnlduka Pocatello Paris LaketoAvn Randolph and Evans ton a person can see at a glance that the Burlington Is I figuring 1 out a preliminary pre-liminary rturvpy to duplicate thC Jion 1aclllcOrogon Short Line route TIs several I possible routes Into Ogden and Salt Lake either from a Wyoming line nr one from Lyons Cola have already boon pointed out so It Is an assured fact that the big system Is not only casting its cc toward Utah but beyond to the Paclllo ocean One railroad man said > osterday that I doztns even hundreds of preliminary surveys Avero run to one road actually built That is true but It Is also a fact that no road was yet built without a preliminary survey and such ark costs money The indisputable statement state-ment remains that the Burlington lllaonil River railroad in Nebraska has two or more surveying parties In the localities mentioned and has com pltle l data for two Utah lines |