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Show LINE pi I Colorado Man Declares Knter-prise Knter-prise Is Attracting Capital Far and Wide. IS ENTHUSIAST ABOUT- UTAH'S MARVELOUS RICHES H Says Uintah Basin Holds Untold Wealth; Presents No Engi- H neering Difficulties. With the news of the reorganization fl of the Moffat road and the determiua- jH tion to send the line to the coast by IH way of Salt Lake City, all eyes are IH turned toward the country the road 11 will traverse. Eastern Utah and mora particularly the Uintah basin country is having its resources sung, to a wait-ing wait-ing world of investors. Not alone are Utahns learning that untold wealth lies IH over the rugged mountain range iu the land of the old Indian reservation, but people iu the east are being told about In the Denver Times of June S Hugh O'Neill gives an interview IH with John B. Maling of Routt county, IH Colo., the county of the present ter-minus ter-minus of the road. What. Mr. Maling says to the Times as recorded by Mr. CTNeill follows: "When the Moffat road Is reorganized," said John B. Maling of Routt county this morning; "when the Moffat road is re- VM organized," said Mr. Maling again, un-loading un-loading from hln capacious pockets a cargo of maps and reports aud photo-graphs: photo-graphs: "when that Is done,". he relter-atcd, relter-atcd, "and tho Denver Securities com-pany com-pany is a 'going' concern. I can go alone into Kansas and raise the money to build. the road right Into Salt Lake City. "There isn't any man In this unthluk-ing unthluk-ing town," said Mr. Maling hotly, "who wouldn't put every dollar he could raise Into this enterprise if lie could realize jl that right across the range there are millions of acres of the most fertile land In the world and billions of tons of mtn-orallzed mtn-orallzed deposits that arc lying virtually untouched, just because there are not steel rails to help them out. "Look at this." said Mr. Maling. open-Ing open-Ing his portfolio of pictures. "That Is Uintah basin, Ulan. Ixiok at those rivers, and rivers and rivers. Look at tho ' breadth of them and the body of them. Five years ago, sir, that was an Indian reservation, given over to the Indians and -i'dreness Tooay 160,000 acres hav been homcsteaded. Today private enter-prise enter-prise ha& put 150,000 acres under ditch. fl Today the government has put 112,000 acres under ditch for the Indians. There arc o00 miles of ditches and laterals made by prlvatu enterprises. There arc 500 miles of ditches and laterals put in by the government. And that territory," said ' Mr, Milling, "that Irrigated land, with facilities for irrigating thousands and thousands acres more. Is 200 miles away from any railroad, and Is waiting now for Denver to complete the Moffat system and put Uintah basin on tho transportation map. Marvelous Wealth of Coal. "Back there," said Mr, Maling, "Is the Bonanza corral, near Vernal. They clipped a million pounds of wool there last year. Farther back hero," said Mr. Maling. tracing the lines upon the map with tho Index ringer of a competent hand, "there are 12H.000 acres of conl land In Routt county, hold by Colorado for the school children of this state. That coal has an average thickness of sixty foot to the acre and will run 90,000 tonfi fur evorv acre mined. On those school lands today there arc 10,000.000 tons of splendid coal, and that coal must lie there until we get the railroad. "I know a man named A. L. Stone," jl said Mr. Maling reflectively, "who Ib manager of tho Updike Coal company. The Updike has eighty-throe distributing IH depots in Nebraska. They get their conl JH from Illinois, Pennsylvania. West Vlr-ginla Vlr-ginla and Hocking Valley. O. Mr. Stone told me that he wns able to get thirteen cars of Routt county coal last year, and fM If wc had the railroad through to the coal jl fields, ho said that Routt, county coal jl would get the wholo Nebraskan market. jl Rich Gilsonite Deposits. IH "you know about, gilsonite, don't you?" said Mr. Maling. "It's one of those new hydrocarbons. They arc using it now more extensively every day in japanning, lacquering and in some kinds of paint. Well, here is a picture of a gilsonite de-posit, de-posit, ami here Is Uintah basin, where jHBl that deposit lies, where they plan to run the Moffat road through on its way HBl west. Again, remember that that gllson-ite gllson-ite deposit is 200 miles from any railroad. "In 1000 they shipped with difficulty, tHJ because of lack of railroad facilities, 37,-000 37,-000 tons of gilsonite. Last ycur the dc- HBfl mand was so groat they managed to get out SS.O00 tons. This year they will ship IHI more than 100.000 tons. And, sir. if this road was made, they would be shipping i'00.000 tons of gilsonite right now from Uintah basin and shipping It Into Denver. HBfl "Vou talk of railroads." he said. "Why, HBfl no railroad proposition was ever con- IHl fronted with the certain success of this "There Is no desert problem about this proposition. There arc the Wasatch IHBb Continued on Page Two. ftwfl SMS MOFFAT DUD IS ASSURED FACT Colorado Man Tells About Hie Riches of Country That Will Be Traversed. Continued From Pago One. , mountains In lT(ah: they present no en-Rlneorinc en-Rlneorinc difficulties to railroad men. But, suppose the Moffat road slopped dead al the foot of the Wasatch mountains moun-tains tnn roo.l there, and the agricultural products, and the mineralized products of Routt county and tho I'inlah basin would rIvc you so much freight that you would have to double-track your system to haul it." "I have been talking about I his thing to deaf ears for more than two years said Mr. Moling, "and only lately have I got a hearing. I know what's waiting in Routt county and the I'intah basin, be-cauFO be-cauFO I have lived there and I w traveled every foot of the ground. Mr. Moffal knew it and realized It. and that knowledge gave him faith and courage to keep on and on. and to keep on alone Other men are finding It out now and clvlng heed lo the thing that T have been hammering at so long. "It Is not. only a. railroad that I want built, but a mighty empire that I want opened to the energies of men. "The soil there." said Mr. Ma ling "there is no richer soil existing anywhere "Thero are rivers there," said Mr Ma ling. "Look at those river waiting to be tapped. There are billions of tons of coal, actual billions. There are millions of tons of gilsonlte- There are millions of tons of other valuable mineralized deposits. de-posits. And there they will stay until we get tho railroad to them. "And we. are going to gel that railroad rail-road now." he said, folding up Ms mans and reports and pictures. "We have got Colonel Dodge behind the new organization organiza-tion and Lawrence Phipps and H. M. Porter and W. G. Evans and John F Campion and J. K. Mullen and Charles Boettcher and Thomas Hayden. "Those men mean business. They mean lo put the road through. "Tho proposition Is a good one. too.' he said, "from a merely financial and Investing In-vesting point of view The Moffat estate es-tate holds SS.000.000 of bonds of the Mol-fal. Mol-fal. road. The Denver Securities company, com-pany, thai Colonel Dodge organized. wl put up 5750.000 In cash to redeem some of the rurrent Indebtedness of the road In exchange for that J750.000 In cash the company will, in effect, prct $4,000.-000 $4,000.-000 of the bonds held by Ihe Moffat estate, es-tate, and that will give to each member of the Denver Securities company more than $6 in bond value for every dollar In cash ho subscribes. "But that end of It," said Mr. Maling. "is small compared to this other end a great big Idle empire of wealth that Is lylnjr across the range at the vcrv door of Denver, and Denver- Is only bc-glnning bc-glnning to realize it's there." |