Show NE EW RAiLROAD IS PLANNED FOR UT AMII I 1 Ion I Eastern Capitalists at Work on Interurban Line TO BE OPERATED BY STEAM Joins Provo Logan and All Intermediate In-termediate Points Simon Baiuberger Turns Down Great Offer Jor His Lin and Resort Senator Smoot Interested S I 1 J 1 Ujmuh I Mahler president of the LakeShore Lake-Shore Kltilwny company of Cleveland 0 hag been In Salt Lake nearly two weeks laying plans for an intermbrin railway system such as he and his fellow fel-low capitnllstB have put into operation I In several Eastern cities It I will take in Logan and surrounding towns Og dcn and Die villages between it and Salt Luke and the villages south lo Provo 71 1 is to he a steam railroad and not it t Irolley I line although Cleveland Cleve-land advices say that Mr Mahler Is avery a-very prominent promoter of electrical railroads in Ohio and president of a pioneer system running from Cleveland to Toledo a distance of 110 miles The I dispatch also said he had helped build j several prosperous railway lines While here he spent a large portion of his time driving over the I country with Simon Uambcrger to whom he made very liberal offers fOI the purchase of the Lagoon resort and the road leading to It When he came he did not know that Senator Smoot had been in New York to interest capital in an interurban inter-urban trolley line project the franchise for which Is already asked for but as soon us he did learn Itlie made advances ad-vances to the junior Senator and he became be-came interested in the new scheme of a steam railroad I When seen by a Tribune man yesterday yester-day Senator Smoot admitted thai he had considered the proposition and while he would not say how far along the plans had progressed or what other capital was IntoroatPd he did say that the road Is ahornln He was very reticent about tIme inatttv nreferrlnc to u have Mr Mahler make the report The latter had already left for the East and could not be reached Mr Mahler Is one of the capitalists who own similar Interurban railroads in Eastern communities nnd as they have money for Investment they are looking toward the Vest Some of them are New Yorkers and others are in Cleveland Mr Mahler drove through the entire district to be Included in the service lo see If there was sufficient population to warrant the building of the road He expressed great satisfaction satisfac-tion to his friend and went East In an enthusiastic mood Ills offer to Air Bamberger was very high but the Salt Taker was not satisfied satis-fied and put a prohibitive price on his holdings Tie is at DC La Mar and couldnt be reached yesterday The project Is I a large one and means the Joining together of the principal cities and villages of the valley by a road whiHi will give frequent local oervlce al low rates The valley Is pretty thickly settled and Salt Lake and Ogden are the centers to which the people peo-ple naturally gravitate By the proposed pro-posed road they can travel cheaply and with frequent train service The systems sys-tems already In operation In localities no more thickly settled than this are said to be paying good dividends and the fact that the men are branching out Is i an Indication that t tho proposition is a good one |