Show CONTRACT SAID TO 10 HAVE VAVE BEEN LET BY THE OP VP U. U P. P A f contract has been awarded by tie Union Pacific railroad for the construction of a line from Wamsutter sutter Wyo WO to Craig Colo olo as the thestel f first step stel toward reaching the rich richI I Uintah h. h valley says the Denver News Work Work Fork will willbe be rushed by that railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road with view to the capture of the traffic ahead of the Denver Rio Grande the San Pedro Los Angeles Salt Lake and the Denver Sait Salt Lake lines nil all of which are hurrIn hurry hurry- ling lag In surveys In antici anticipation of the I great geat profits s which will accrue as theIr the Ir result I sult of or the extension of transport transportation t tation n facilities through the district A Announcement that the contract had be been been been- n let came carne Monday night from O 0 Omaha l the general headquarters of the Union Pacific Once o ce developed by the introduction flan tion of railroad facilities facUlties the Uintah basin basin If will be 10 one of the richest producers in the west as its resources resources ces ces Pl are varied and practically inex inex- Not only in the agricultural agricultural tural tural J and livestock possibilities is ui the district immensely rich but its II mineral fIerar wealth has been covetously regarded regard d for many years r The town of Va Wamsutter sutter is on the I Cheyenne division of ot the main line ot or ori i the Union ion Pacific Craig is the i present terminus of the Denver Salt L Lake ke railroad From this point lit it is understood understood the Union Pacific I Plans planed to to parallel the Denver Salt La ke road oad westward through th the Uintah Uintah Uin Uin- tah valley lle to a junction with its own lines lines' at Salt Lake City or Ogden The Denver Rio Grande railroad has located part of ot its lines and the location has been filed with the Utah state railroad commission The survey starts from Colton Utah a few miles east of soldiers' soldiers I summit and runs northeast toward I Fort Duchesne Duchesne and nd Vernal Utah l both points on the projected extension extension exten exten- sion of the Denver Salt Lake H. H U. U Mudge president of the company company company com com- pany says that on n account of the heavy snow on the range the surveyors survey survey- ors are now working on the lower end of ot the line Colton is almost on top of the Wasatch range and has a I heavier grade than the Soldiers Summit Summit Summit Sum Sum- mit line but lt the grade Is e entirely tirel feasible according to Mr Mudge i iThe The survey being made by the San San Pedro Los Angeles Salt Lal Lake e railroad rail rail- road road part part of the Union Pacific system system tem tern between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City City Is Is from Pr Provo vo west of Salt Lake City The territory to be invaded is the thc prize on which David H H. Moffat 1 centered cen cen- centered his hopes for a big traffic when wizen he projected the Denver Salt Lake railroad through the basin a realization realization tion only in a dotted line o on railroad maps showing proposed construction The surveys that have been made Including the location of the Moffat line probably will now blossom in attempts at realization In view of ot the I fact that one of the lines actually i has begun construction Railroad men say that the fact that the Union Pacific contract was for tor construction only as far as Craig the present terminus of the Moffat road suggested that perhaps there might I be some consideration in prospect by which the Union Pacific would join In the completion of the Moffat line or that one or the other lines would be built through and that the Uie second company would secure traffic rights over the completed lineTh line Th The great U Uintah basin the nanie name as it appears In Utah literature comprises Du Duchesne and Uintah counties a large section of undeveloped undeveloped undeveloped land that was held until re re- s an Indian reservation A considerable portion of the great area Js is s capable of ot Irrigation and Is under on of the government irrigation irrigation irrigation tion projects It Js is backed on the north and west westby westby by th the Uintah find and nd Wasatch mountains mountains mountains moun moun- rich in coal and other minerals There is an abundance of timber e enough ough it is said In one one forest to supply ties to build a railroad from fromI the Atlantic to the the th Pacific o |