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Show HIKE SU8VETS FOR HEW COt if Engineers Study Most Feasible Feas-ible Routes for Line to Emery Fields. WANT RATE TO COAST Interests Hopeful of Getting Same Tariff as Applies to New Mexico. A? a part of the gigantic project to consolidate various holdings in tho JSmcry county coal zone and to create a mighty system of fuel mines under one control, surveys are now being made from Provo. Spanish lork. Nop'hl and other common points, to Mohrland. which is located In the very heart of the bis: fuel district. These surveys, It Is declared, will determine deter-mine the line over whioh the Utah Coal railroad, n vital part of the vast enterprise, enter-prise, will be constructed. The road from the coal fields, will Intersect the Salt T.akc route at a point to be named upon completion of the surveys. It also has transpired fnat when the Utah Coal railroad shall have been con-' strutted, the samo freight rate on fuoV may become effective from Mohrland to the Pacific coast as now obtains from Gallup. N. M.. one of the great coal shipping centers of the country, which supplies such coast points as Sun Pedro. Los Angeles and Ran Francisco with immeasurably im-measurably vast quantities of fuel. Wants Benefit of Bate. J7roin railroad officials it Is learned that (he Gallup rate lo the coast is allowed al-lowed also from all Utah common points over t'ne Salt Lake Route. That raio Is quoted as JS.tJa per ton. Jn other words, it costs Sfi.liu per ton lo shin coal from Gallup to Los Angeles and San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Tho same rate is allowed by the Salt Lake Route from Utah common points on its lines. The Interests hi control of the Finery county fuel mines project now proposes to secure the allowance of the samo rate from Mohrland. and other points on the proposed eoal line, to the coast, the same as though they were common points now included in the rate list. II' the .interests succeed In seeming the Gallup rate, effective at Mohrland for coust shipments, Ihey will bo able to enter en-ter Into wide competition. It is declared, with the New Mexico interests, for thu vast market on the coast, as well as for the great shipping market to points Irnns-Paeilie. Confer With Officials, If fne Gallup rate is not allowed al Mohrland, for coast shipments, it is probable prob-able that the shipments from the Emery countv zone would cost the Gallup rate, plus the expense of freighting thocoal over the proposed lino Lo Ihe point of railroad intersection. Fred A. Wann, general traffic manager of the Salt Lake Route, Is expected to arrive iu the city today, and it is understood under-stood will confer with William C. Sharp, president of the Unitori States Smelting, Kenning & Mining- company, representing- the Interests In control of the big project and others with regard lo tho rate question. Mr. Sharp. It is understood, under-stood, will then leave for the east, where ho wilt enter inlo further deliberations with the men concerned in the great undertaking. un-dertaking. May Get Dock. It is also understood that negotiations arc under way by which Ihe big deal may Include the securing of :i great dock for fuel storage and shipping purposes at San Pedro harbor. Just what concessions con-cessions of this character are comprehended compre-hended in the project have not been made known. The proposed railroad will doubtlesslv bc projected as an oullot fur the big Emery county fields, extending ninety miles or more from the heart of the zone to Ihe intersecting point. Tt Is estimated esti-mated that the road will cost 55.(00,000. Purchases of holdings In limery county hiiVc already raised tho amount involved in-volved in tho project lo upwards of 510.000,000. Other negotiations to no-qulre no-qulre additional eonl properties are under un-der way and, it ia declared, will increase in-crease the total sum Involved by millions. mil-lions. Roads Lead to Market. "When Urn coal line has been constructed construct-ed along: the- course as decided by tho surveys now heinjr made, it will connect at Mohrland with the Castle Valley rood, making a continuous line through tho fuel zone to Price, on the Denver &. Rio Grande line, thus leading to markets in every direction. Of ih(! possible routes of the coal line, tho most feasible hi present sem lo he from Provo, via Springfield and Thistle Junction, from Spanish Fork via Huntington Hun-tington canyon, or from cither Xephl or Juab on tho Salt Lake Route direct to Mohrland. Soldlor';; Summit, lljlltop and oilier physical obstacles in tho region of the proposed line are being taken inlo consideration in making tho surveys. It Is declared by a numlior of local railroad rail-road niftii that the mosl fraslhlc road would be that from Spanish Fork to Mohrland through Huntington canyon. |