Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-10-31 | Page 2 | Uinta Road to Begin in Spring

r INTA ROAD TO BEGIN 11 SPRING Y TO TOBE TOBE BE COST OF NEW RAIL PROJECT J TONS N Of V VAST VASTI A T I RI RICHES H AWAIT I DEVELOPMENT r PREDICTION mCHON Railroad When Completed Will Be Monument to toG G Governor Line to ta Be Miles in Length of the Utah C p v Colorado railroad the project promoted by Governor Simon Bamberger and Salt Lake business men will wili start in the spring according to an announcement made in N New w York by Governor Bamberger Bamberger Bam Bam- berger states George F P. McGonagle state engineer who accompanied the governor on his trip East Yi The railroad will be miles long o and will extend from Springville Utah fifty miles south of ot Salt Lake to Craig Colo the governor announced Governor Bamberger made the following follow follow- following ing statement The project of a direct line like this has been discussed for far twenty years It will open up- up upa a anew new territory which which is rich in resources including coal hydrocarbons oils asphalt and live five stock During the war wheat and beans were fed to the hogs because there was no way of ot shipping it from the country RICH IN GILSONITE There are estimated to be tons of ot gilsonite In this territory Gilsonite is h hydrocarbon dro arbon used as In Insulation insulation In- In for electric wires and on telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone instruments I helped to build the Union Pacific and I say that In three years ye more business will be e developed along this ne new J railway than there has been developed in fifty years along the Union Pacific And I 1 dont don't think th the Union Pacific will deny eny that either eltheA The traffic is already there waiting wafting for forthe forthe forthe the railroad I am going to Washington In connection connection connection con con- with obtaining cooperation be between between between be- be tween the white men and the Indians in Utah in connection with the building of this road I want the Indians to co cooperate cooperate cooperate co- co operate with the whites In preventing the washing away of ot the flood flold waters In sixty days enough ugh water runs to waste to irrigate all an the lands in this territory I TO QUIT POLITICS I shall not continue In political life after the expiration p of or my term in n a a. year but will continue my Interest in inthe inthe inthe the building of ot the road which will bo be e finished in about three years The fi financIng financing financing fi- fi of the road will be through popular subscription in the West Vest and anel Middle West Vest The road will cost 15 This railroad I intend as my monument I arrived here from GerI Germany Germany Ger Ger- I many a poor boy at the age of 14 and andI I 1 am grateful to the United States for forthe forthe the opportunities it has bas given me