Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-11-30 | Page 23 | Will Select Route for New Coal Road

WILL SELECT ROUTE FOR IWML HUD Work Is Begun by Surveyors for Grade to Salina Canyon. Special to Tho Tribune. PKOVO, Nov. 29. The Central Utah Railway company, organized horo to build a railroad from Salina east through Salina canyon to the coal fleldH for a dI:;tnnco of about twenty miles, haa surveyors sur-veyors in tho field for preliminary surveys sur-veys from which tho most fcaslblo grade will bo selected. Tho company purposes to bepln construction worK as soon after the routo la selected as possible, and expects ex-pects to havo the work well under way this winter. The railroad company, be-Ini? be-Ini? composed of men connected with the Wnsalch Construction company, haa the advantage of having a construction force ready to take up tho work whenever the time Is opportune President W O. Oreer of tho railroad company, who holds practically all of tho stock, states that the road is being built to the coal Holds to secure a part of tho big con I traffic that Is bound to be developed de-veloped by the shipment of coal to southern south-ern California from the large coal fields which arc being opened In Sevier and limtry county. Ho believes tho Held 13 largo enough for two roads, tho one recently re-cently organized by Salt Lake and Ogden capitalists and his own road. Ho says that none of Ids company owns any coal lands there. The Knight Interests own several thousands of acres of coal lands In the new field, which will bo developed by the present owners or through consolidation with othor proportlc.1 after the railroads reach the field. But Mr. Knight disclaims any financial Interest In either tho Central Cen-tral or the Salt Lako corporation's road. The Knights and Mr. Creer aro, however, associated in other business enterprises and construction companies, nnd if tho Knlchts open their coal mines the Central Cen-tral will, without any doubt, bo available for transporting the coal to the Denver & Rio Grande at Salina for shipment to the coasL