Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-01-27 | Page 2 | Bamberger Interests to Protest Adverse Report on Uinta Basin Railroad

Bamberger Interests Interests' to v. v Protest Adverse Report I on Uinta Basin Railroad I I. I C. C 6 G. E Examiners Examiners' Disapproval If Su Sustained ta ne Will Wil Will Result in Loss of Eastern Utah p. p B Business siness to o Colorado J Project t lt Backers Contend AT t. t I Objections and briefs will be immediately filed filed by bythe tl f Bamberger interests against th the r of the interstate inter infer r state commerce commission examiners who have filed findings find 1 ings ing on on the the application ot the Salt Lake take Denver railroad Ci denying that company the right to proceed with the construction construction con eon and op operation ration of a G. railroad through tl the Uinta basin the largest undeveloped section of Utah When shown the dispatches fro from i Washington Washing regarding regarding- the action of ot the examiners Julian Bamberger expressed great surprise at fat the tha report If If the application of this hearing Is denied it will be a a. great to the Uinta basin basia and the whole state stale of Utah Utah- he said If u the commission commission commission commis commis- sion adopts the report of ot the ex examiners examiners ex- ex it will throw all the busi bust business bustness business ness of ot northeastern Utah Into Colorado which Is now seeking by b motor highway to draw the trade of ot what that territory This traffic Is now now- going to Craig Colo Cob where It connects connects connects con con- with the Moffat railroad for lor Q n. r The question Involved Is the right to the tha Moffat tunnel through es Janies Jaes mountain mountain which t P Ph h l lv v est eat grade across the A request for an oral hearing before the commission will be made at once to to combat the effect of ot the examiners examiners' examiners examiners' exam exam- iners' iners report WASHINGTON WASHINGTON J Jan 27 AT AP AP- AP Interstate commerce commission commissI n examiners t today day recommended to 10 the commission that citizens of Salt Lake City who have organized the Salt Lake Denver railroad should be denied permission to proceed d with the extensive construction project contemplated by the road The J new w railroad corporation has one file tHe with the commission tentative tentative teri- teri ten ten- taUve estimates and plans for tor c construction construction con con- ri- ri of miles mUes of ot railroad through the Uinta basin from Provo Provo Pro Pro- v vo Utah to Craig Colo Cob where It I Is designed to connect ct with the De Denver Denver Den Den- ver Salt Lake The Denver Rio Grande Western Vestern protested against the granting pf of permission to build the line which the new company Is seeking from the com corn mission Reviewing evidence and findings in his investigation W. W U. U Watson commissioner examiner recommended recommended recommended mended that the commission should rule that the project had been In Insufficiently InsuffIciently insufficiently In- In sufficiently studied by Its promoters promoters' ers ers' that estimates of traffic awaitIng awaitIng awaiting await await- ing its completion were too uncertain uncertain tain lain and nd that while t territory which It proposed to serve needed transportation trans trans- the Salt Lake Denver company had no financing plan adequate to its project Wide Vide differences between estimates estimates estimates esti esti- mates of ot the cost Involved In Jn the project appeared In the examiners examiner's review The new company f first considered that the line would cost while the Denver Rio Grande Vest Western rn engineers placed the cost above 1 O. O