Show L ROAD FROM MARYS VALE F 1j j 1 R G W Laying Plans to l Build to the Southwest I MEET THE SANTA FE LINE Each Road Is Protecting Its f Interests It I Each Ens to Build Only 200 JiUles to Secure the Through Connection I and It Looks Like Business I = I The good ne vs was brought to this I f city yesterday from the East and I J southern Utah that the Gould management manage-ment Is planning to extend Its lines f I I 3 1 from Morysvalo to the southwest Contractors t l Con-tractors are looking over the ground I and surveyors will be placed In the field I i right away to follow up the earlier surveys f sur-veys made by tho company for the I < came extension It Is the purpose of t the company to reach Cedar City at I once but this Is not tho end of the I extension for It has been shown all along that the Rio Grande has an equally I equal-ly good line all the way to Los Angeles The Santa Fe is slowly building northeast J north-east from Its Barn well branch Mauvol I and as was shown lately is trying to I I reach a position where it can meet any I road building from this city The Rio i t Grandes survey to Los Angeles takes HI I la the Iron and Washington counties region but follows the same general r I line below the crossing of the Muddy 1 I river In Lincoln county Nov C > WOULD CROSS SANTA FE j This would make it cross the line beIng l be-Ing worked out by the Santa Fe so it I I is plain as day that the two companies f each In their OWI territory are by constructing I con-structing a very short extension protecting ti pro-tecting their own Interests and at the 8 1 j I name time laying rails that could be I I I connected within a very few days notice i no-tice to make the Los Angeles connection t j connec-tion The Santa Fe has to protect Itself I J I It-self from the Incursions of Its competitors I competi-tors and the Rio Grande has got toil to-il look after its Utah Interests so between 4 I tween the two they could do this and I 1 each would only have to build 200 miles t of track f I I III NOT UNNATURAL MOVE I I r A combination of the kind between the Santa Fe and Rio Grande would not I L J be at all an unnatural move as the I II I J I Santa Fe does not enter Into competition J competi-tion with the Rio Grande in this State It would however get an entrance to I 1 fl J the coal fields of southern Utah and tho I F j Rio Grande would get a trackage right I Ii into southern California Then If f 1 i ° forced to It would get a connection fort for-t I ul San Francisco Independent of its present i t pres-ent connection and one that would be r t I t j in force until Buch time as it secured J I J I US short line from Utah to San Francisco q I Fran-cisco at which time it could in turn h I II 1 give the Santa Fe any benefits to be derived I de-rived by using the same line In brief I I the Santa Fe and Gould Interests do not I clash as to present territory uncovered t I I by their trackage and a wellbalanced i i traffic arrangement might be effected to I i the good of either road and the detriment I j IU I i detri-ment of neither but to the great benefit I I T a bene-fit of Utah in any event I f j LOOKS LIKE BUSINESS I I i ThaMhc Rio Grande is going to the t coast can be asserted In the most positive i I rl posi-tive terms That it Is right now preJ l I I 1 paring to get Its plans in operation I I I seems to be assured from all that can I J be learned and the Information comes I from several and most reliable sources t r III I In Denver the engineering staff of the 1 I I system is being wonderfully strengthened 3 i strength-ened but there Is no news from headquarters I head-quarters 03 to what Is contemplated I IIi I I I Leading contractors however have been jll quietly ndtlfled of the pending plans 1 I I and are dolmg some quiet work In ascertaining i ascer-taining what can be done in the region i l I below Marysvale toward securing men 1 I teams and supplies for the force from 1 I farmers In that region I Whatever the outcome the preliminary prelimi-nary steps will be closely followed fort I i t It will mean much to this State and asA as-A J j I i the Rio Grande extension would traverse 1 trav-erse the most thickly populated settlements It I settle-ments in the southwestern part of the I t i I W l t I j f I j general State the interest in the move will be |