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Show ROAD ill NAMED Rail Line Will Tap Deseret Mining District; to Cost $1,500,000. .Speckil io The Tribune. l'HOVO, liec. 1-1. Additional information informa-tion of interest was given out here today concerning the proposed new railroad which v.dll run from Delta twenty-two miles north to the Deseret mining district dis-trict and forty-eight mile:? .south to Ka-nosh, Ka-nosh, via PiHmore. It is announced that the men who will Incorporate the road and be directors of the company are W. II. Brereton, president presi-dent of the State bank of Provo; John 1 Uoundv, capitalist and mining man; , Thomas F. Pierpont, of the Provo Foundry Foun-dry and Machine company; G. .1. ('arpen- : ter. seed man; G. H. Weindselnmn, jeweler; jew-eler; William V. Price, farmer; Dr. O. K. Robison; L.afe Brown, sheep man; T.ee lu. Baker, attorney; Alva Nelson, cashier of the State bank of Provo. In addition to the announcement as to ' who the directors will be the further j statement Is made that the right of way i has been obtained for the entire distance and that some of the contracts for grading- already have been let. The committee commit-tee which arranged for the right of way has just concluded its work. It comprised com-prised G. .1. Carpenter of Provo; William Asluon, civil engineer of Salt Lake; Jacob H. Turner of Salt Lake; George Austin of Salt Dake, said to represent the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Sugar uompany; A Iva Nelson of Provo and George W. Craig, agent of the Salt I-akc Route at Provo. Surveyors are now in the field doing the preliminary work, it also is announced, an-nounced, and actual construction activity activ-ity will begin at once. The promoters sav that the new road will cost approximately 1,500,000 and they add that the money already has been obtained. |