Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-12-05 | Page 3 | Right of Way Report

Right of Way Roport." Special to The Tribune. FR'JVO. Dec. I. At a meeting of citizens citi-zens of Provo held In tho Commercial club rooms tonight the committee appointed to collect funds with which to buy a right-of-way for the Utah Railroad company com-pany from Spanish Fork canyon to Provo made Its report. W. JT. Ray. chairman of tin committee, and J. T. Farrcr. secretary, sec-retary, explained that tho road wished the cltlr.ons of Provo, Sprlngvllle and Maplnton to buy It a right-of-way which would cost about SSO.OQO. ivovo'a chare being about J:t3,0u 1 A number of ypialccrs talked In favor (of the plan and the committee was Instructed In-structed to go ahead and take subscript Hons for tlie fund. At the conclusion of the meeting JMOQ was subscribed by those present. Among the donors wa.s .1. William Knighl. 500: ft. M Allen, SfiOO: and William M. Knyluncc, S2.1U. Tho road will tap the rich coal deposits de-posits of Kmery and Carbon counties, come through Spanish Fork canyon and connect with the Salt Lake route. Unless Un-less the citizens of Provo. Sprlngvllle and Mapleton bought the right-of-way between be-tween the canyon mouth and Provo the company planned to touch the Salt LaJce route at Spanish Fork, the nearest point.