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Show UINTA BASIN BffiCH " UNDER ClSIDtlllOfj Rio Grande Has Surveyors in Field Who Will Remain Re-main All Winter. .. CHIEF ENGINEER HERE Says Np Definite Action Is Likely to Be Taken Until Spring. No definite action with reference to the construction of the proposed extension exten-sion into the Uinla basin is likely to be taken by the Denver. & Rio Grande until next spring, according to J. 3. Gwynn, chief engineer of the company, who was in Salt Lake last night. Durinz the early part of December Mr. Gwynn was in ihe basin directing the work of the surveying parties, but came out about a week ago. Until about ten days ago the Denver k Rio Grande operated two surveying parties in the basin, one 'in the basin itself and the other on the mountains. The heavy fall of snow and the cold weather about ten days ago made it impossible to accomplish auvthing on the mountains and that gang was withdrawn, with-drawn, but the party in the basin will continue work throughout the winter. Statement of Engineer. The party will be put to work on the mountains as soon as the weather will permit in the spring. Mr. Gwvnn added: We are making only preliminary surveys, with a view to locating the most feasible route. Jt is hardly hard-ly likely that the directors will take any action on the proposed extension until I make mv report on the surveys, which will not be done until the work is completed. Until my report is compiled it .will be impossible to designate tho most feasible route or give any estimate es-timate as to the length of the route or the cost of construction of the extension. , I should judge that the road from Colton would be somewhere .between 100 and 125 miles in length and some of it will be of heavy construction. Grades Not Excessive. The grades, I am inclined' to believe, be-lieve, will not be excessive for a mountain road, but Borne of them will be pretty steep. The Uinta basin is a wonderfully wonderful-ly rich agricultural section, but is not being developed as it should be owing to lack or transportation facilities to carry the products to market. The residents of the basin ba-sin are very anxious to have a railroad built into the countrv, and I believe, if a road is built", that the section will develop bv leaps and bounds. What our people may do, of course, I cannot forecast. |