Show SURVEYING PARTY 5 IN fiELD fOR BIG NEW NEN UTAH RAilWAY flAtLY Line If Built Will Tap Mineral Min Mm- eral Farming and Lumbering Lumbering Lumbering Lum Lum- bering Sections A corps of twenty five surveyors under under un un- der tier the direction o of Colonel Burgess chief elite engineer for the tho Grand Canyon Iron Mountain Southern railroad left heft Milford last Monday and started tho the survey sur sur- vey sey for Lor that road which Is planned to open up ono one of the richest parts of the entire state of Utah The Tho railroad ultimately it Is said will willbe willbe be be bc- constructed from either Nephi or Payson the Salt Lal Lake o route and the tho Rio illo Grando both touch and thence by a route through the richest part of th the state to the Arizona line The route aa at proposed will follow tho the east cast side o of tho the Sevier valley which has hasSan hasSan hasSan San Pitch Bc Beaver ver and Parowan ranges ranes on the cast east and nd the tho Tintie TIntic canyon Bear river and Mineral 1 ranges on tho the west It will ru a southwesterly southwest southwest- erly direction to Fillmore in Milliard Millard county From Fillmore the road will run to Kanosh and Beaver City thence to Parowan Cedar Cellar City and St. St George running through a pass in the Pine Pino valley mountains The Iho road will open a wonderful agricultural agricultural agricultural agri agri- cultural timber and mineral country as aa rich as any that has ever been opened Inthe in inthe inthe the west In tho the wide valleys traversed by the railroad and in the narrower valleys valleys val val- leys Joys opening into them rich well Watered watered watered wa wa- lards will b bo had in profusion 1 A branch of the road will open the Kaibab National forest where govern government overn- overn ment Umber timber experts have estimated that feet of prime timber are arc ready for the tho ax The line will open up the mineral wealth of the Beaver Reaver country and put that in touch with the market It will open up the sulphur mines of Millard l county and- and of Beaver county The possible possible possible pos pos- sible output of the latter hatter alone will bo tons a year ear 5 The mineral wealth of Iron county that will ill be opened will comprise what Is consIdered considered con- con the greatest iron deposit in America Amer Arner- wet ica outside of Pennsylvania and Michigan Michigan Michi Michi- g-a g gan n and coal that will rival the deposits deposits' of Pennsylvania The tropical semi fruits that have made Dixie as t tie e St George country is known famous all over the country will also be put on all the marl markets ets that cannot cannot cannot can can- not now be reached by these perishable prod products i The initial construction is planned for what will ultimately be a branch of the main line running from Milford l to Beaver Beaver Beaver Bea Bea- ver City and thence to tap the adjacent adjacent adjacent adja adja- cent iron and coal deposits near Para- Para gomah and Parowan When this Is completed completed com corn work worl is to commence on the main line S Among mong the men interested inthe proposition proposition proposition prop prop- are said to be M. M I. I II IL Walker Valker A. A J. J Davis Reed Smoot and several others Eastern Salt Lake and Beaver capital Isto is isto isto to be interested |