Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-08-24 | Page 2 | Way Cleared to Build Roads in Salina Canyon

WAY CLEARED TO 10 BUILD BUllO ROADS IN SAuNA CANYON Trouble Ironed Out After Quarter Cent Century ry o of Squabbling i I. Arter After a Controversy versy er y e extending te n l g over ever a quarter quarte of a I century the way was as cleared cleared Saturday for or construction construe u tion thon of a railroad line and a n new newstate w state stat highway through h Salina can yon A tentative agreement overcoming v vA ing big tho tile points of or dl dispute pu e between bet the Denver Rio Grande Western r railroad and state and county road rOM officials as was tas l' l reached a hed at a a. conference confer confer- ence ence enee FrIda Friday between A A. A C. C Shields dlf vice vico prell president t And ld g nager er of ot fits tho 1 railroad th tho SevIer county commission u tho to o state road cor i commis-i don and the U.-S. U. to forestry fostiy hy department nt RAILROAD READY M t the con conference Mr Shields Shields' In Indicated ted that lh tho D. D R. R G. G V wi W. Is read ready to complete completo the line lne a SO- SO project as soon as the state count county and forest department will remo e remove the highway from the railroad railroad rail rall- ro road d grade and eliminate all 11 but eleven or tw twelve l c o of the twenty eight grade grado crossings on the line Une This was agreed to by the tIle state Mate road commission the thc SevIer county commissioners and the tho forest servIce Ice through District Engineer R. R 11 H. Rutledge and B J J. J Finch tho the for forest st service r agreement it being subjeCt to approval aJ at Washington Tho The realIgnment re re realignment realignment re- re alignment of or the highway It It- jS' jS es estimated will cost third one of t which would bl bo be borne by ci each h of r the tho three thre Interested parties STARTED IN 1903 I 1 The Salina aina canyon railroad line was as start started d In 1903 a. a and d constructed to within two mUes of the proposed terminus some orne eighteen en miles up tho the canyon from front tho the ale Marysvale branch line The project was temporarily tent tent- tern tem abandoned however ho when r residents failed tailed to d develop cop coal de deposits deposits deposits de- de posits and arid tho tue grade grado was e eventual eventual- alJ al- al J ly iy taken over for a n. hJ highway w Ab About u five fi years ago a coal coat mine was as opened up and public agitation I for tOI completion lon of f the theline line was as a's 1 re revived Until Friday e however the railroad company had been unable to to r reach ach acha a a. satisfactory agreement with cou and for concerning th the road Railroad officials sa say say that tho the branch line Une which will connect with the alo branch at Sauna Salina can be completed t d In III about SO 90 days after a a. settlement II Is definitely reached retched I I