Show RAILWAY TO DIXIE L ASSURED f j Vice President t J. J Ross ClarK CIarli of Salt Lale Route Ma MaKes Mahs s Announcement I INCREASE CREASE BONDS TO RAISE THE MO MONEY Luncheon at Commercial Club Today Means Much to Utah St St. StGeorge George and ami Washington c county I mt Uta Ular h will Avill ha have t railroad t r c with ith the outside world not not at sonic some dim HII an and distant si ut di date tc but in iu the thc very crr near future j l The Itc r road ad will run lun from St. St as rig 1 on ti the Virgin tI river to Si St g George and d other towns towns' in in Wash ington c county and will be built huilt b by the 1 S Salt t Lake route At pr present the the Salt Lake route is buil building ing a a. bl branch line linc from Moapa to St. St I Thomas 1 As soon as this line is completed which will be within tic the next feW v mouths months work on the theline lin line to St. St George will commence This Tills was in substance the promise made mado tills this afternoon by J. J Ross Clark second vice president of or th the the Salt Lake route at a meeting held beld at the Commercial Com Coin mercial club which was attended by prominent t officers of or tho the Salt Lake route and aud leading citizens of Utah The announcement of Mr Clark was greeted greet greet- ed cd with cheers and was waa followed by byth byth other th r speeches in which the speakers wished the company all success in the building of the tho new line lIfe The announcement of Mr fr Clark explains ex cx- plains in part the meeting of stockholders ers of the tho company which will bo ho held in 3 this city on M March 4 t at which time the tho stockholders w will 11 1 be bc c Basked asked to toyoto voto yoto on the proposition of ot increasing tho the authorized bonded indebtedness of the from to The TLe bonds of the company at t present outstanding total only 48 It Jt has been beeD known for some time that the Salt Lake route hud had at least two surveys from Irom its main line lino to St. St Gc George and other towns in Utah's Ulah's U Dixie land Quo Ono of these calls caBs for a 1 lino line from St. St Thomas to St. St Geor George c along don the Vir Vir- Fin in river river Tho The other runs run southerly from roin Lund At tho the gathering a at tho the Commercial club dub this afternoon Governor Go Spry remarked remarked re re- re marked that the Salt Lake Lako route had bad done clone much ranch to develop parts part of Utah but that there was one part that needed ii a railroad for its proper development JIo no said ill that ho be referred to Washing Wa Washington bing ton county and expressed tho the hope hole that some rome da day there would b bo a railroad railroad rail rail- road into that Thc The O said that ho had bad heard hear l rumors that the Salt Lake route wag wa va coing to buill build iu iii that direction Iud and that perhaps Mr Clark could d deny n tho rumor Clark Springs Surprise Mr Clark did ail id not den deny the tho rumor lIt lie confirmed it Ho lie announced th that t jt it was tho the of the Salt Lake route rout to buill into Washington on county at t tho the earliest arlic t pos possible late that as at lo soon toon as at the tho line lino was wae completed to StThomas St. St Thomas noma the work of pushing biu it t through to Washington county would bo lio o taken up 11 and that it it w would nM be 1 pushed d with t the he least pos possible ibo delay dilar Mr Ir Clark also announced that it would be bo the policy of tho Salt Lake route not only to keep its lines up to the highest standard but that a as fast fat fasts as s nce necessary it would mako improve c improvements ments ment anti ami build branch Hues Tb The address s followed a luncheon Yon in the by T 1 II H. Man Man- 1 assistant general frei freight ht and passenger the Salt Lake route routt to o Mr fr Clark and an and others Those present pres pres- cut ent were Those at the Luncheon J J. J Ross Clark vice president of tic the Salt Lake route Fred Jred A. A Wann general gen eral traffic mana manager t r for that road Governor Go William Spry former United Sta Stages es Senator Thomas I Kearns D David Ditl Keith V. W. W. W Armstrong president of the he Commercial club JO Joy II 11 John Johnson sou and W W. J J. Hallorau Halloran former presidents of the tilo club Joseph Joserh F E E. C Caine ine secretary of the tho club J J. W. W Houston Colonel E. E C. C Loose Dr D. D H. H Calder Warden en Arthur Pratt and Mr |