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A REPORTS ARE CONTRADICTORY W WILL ILL NOT BE BUILT SAYS ONE MAY BE SAYS ANOTHER Two directly conflicting reports regarding regarding re- re garding the probability of the Salt Lake Route loute building into the basin appeared in n the file Salt Lake press during the week one one that the project was to be abandoned abandoned abandoned aban aban- the other that it awa awaited ted on reports reports re- re ports orts from resource engineers Both follow ollow Herald Republican Herald Abandonment of the plans of or the Salt Lake Route to extend a branch branch branchine line ine into the Uintah basin was reported report report- ed in railroad circles Monday tobe to tobe tobe be the result of a decision on the tine part of the official board of the railroad to make preparations to extend a a br branch line down dowl through southern Utah from Lund as far as the Kai Kai- Kaibab Kaibab bab national forest touching all Important important important Im im- im- im points A survey for the line it is reported will be started within a few weeks Attorney C. C B. B Stewart said that the project of reclaiming more than semitropical arid of acres s land laud west of of Washington Washing establishing a series ton county by I Rio o Virgin of storage dams on th the life as the result result re re- re- re new has been given sult suit of Indications th that t th J Salt Lake Route intends building building a southern railroad Utah r line As soon a as the building this line it i is s said starts capitalists will be ready to invest invest In the Rio m more more re than VirgIn project In addition numerous timbering companies including the Jt Eccles and other cOli con Lumber company re report reported d northwest are terns cerns in the timber r cruisers to have dispatched special investigation of oft make a M to forest This itis it itis tl the the Kaibab national result of ff reliable re reo the said Is entirely is Assurance that the Salt Lak Lake assurance liable abl rail- rail building a b binto branch ranch intends Route the Dixie country ro roan down Into department announced an- an The The Ther r forest rest service ago two years aced more than non th that t the the timber i In II the K Kaibab nation al forest h had d matured r was ready cutting and would be sold to the highest bidder Immediately after this announce announce I racist meat mCI t speculation became rife rIre of of the tine building of a railroad branch line fo to that section I It is said that predictions pre predictions dictions that the road would be built by the Salt Lake Route are now about to materialize The building of a railroad down through southern Utah from Lund will result in the tine establishment oC or orone one one of the best paying branch lines i in n tho tho west said Dr Ernest Green Gre-en of Cedar City during a visit in Salt Lake The Tile b of a steam r railroad rail road will mean the file extension of electrIc electric elec elect file lines While a branch line extended south from Lund would penetrate the most extensive iron fields of Iron county it would also touch the new newco co fields coalfields in Little Salt Lake gap recently opened by R. 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A Kirker of Parowan Parowan a coal mining expert who has liar filed on the tine coal lands lands' in the the United States land office in Salt l Lake Less than eighteen miles south of this coal property properly is the new coal discovery discover made by Dr Green Gree of Cedar City and it is reported report report- ed that new of or anthracite coal h have v be been ll discovered along the proposed proposed pro pro- po posed ed route twenty miles north of Hurricane It Is reported in railroad circles that officials of the tine Denver Rio Grande have under consideration the early extension of oC a railroad Into the tine Uintah basin basin by by way of Helper and aud Indian canyon canon This railroad recently recent ly 1 filed rights of way from Duchesne to Vernal in the United United St States tes land office Salt Lake Tribune Extensive general Improvements i all along the line and the tine possible construction of the tine Uintah basin basil extension extension extension ex ex- ex- ex tension are the features of the work worl planned by the Salt Lake Route for forthe forthe the coming year according to form former r United States Senator W. W A. A Clark I president of the road Senator Clark arrived here yester yester- day morning from Butte Dutte on a tour of or inspection of his western properties properties proper ties During the day day he ire conferred with Vice Pres dent H. H HV V. V Platt General Gener General Gen Gen- er eral l Manager l H. H C. C Nutt and Traffic fic Manager F F. F A. A Wann Vann of the Salt Lake Route with reference to the tine plans for Cor 1917 With Mr Nutt he lie left last night for L Los s Angeles and from there he lie will go to Arizona to inspect some of his mining prop prop- 0 Decision as to whether the tine UInta basin extension m will be built is being belag be ing lag held herd in abeyance awaiting reports re re- ports port from engineers Mr Clark said Awaiting Reports Complete reports ar are expected with within in m the next few weeks and upon receipt receipt receipt re re- re- re of them the tine question will be decided Senator Clark Clark the expressed the opinion that an ext extension into the St. St George country was Impracticable under prese present t conditions on a account count of the heavy cost of construction and the limited amount of traffic that could be developed Continued on page 4 fi r it R R. A H. REPORTS ARE CONTRADICTORY Continued from front page The general improvements included in included Included In- In In the plans for tor the coming year comprise the installation of block signals over a portion of oC the theline theline theline line the laying of ot heavy steel replacing replacing replacing re re- placing old bridges with structures of concrete and steel general improvement improvement Improvement Im im- provement in the roadbed and the purchase of oC new and modern equip ment meat Senator Clark expressed him him- elf del t as well pleased with the busi bus him I ness of the road and predicted for forit forit forit it a great future The rhe senator also was enthusiastic o over er the result of the tho election especially es especially especially es- es inasmuch as the west was responsible for tor the re-election re of President Wilson He expressed no doubt that American prosperity wason was wason wason on a firm basis and would not be affected by the the- result of the election and not to any appreciable extent b by the cessation of hostilities in Europe las Has l Faith aUh in l Future Of course the shipments shipments shipments ship ship- ments will cease with the end of the war w r he said but they constitute tute bite only a small share of our exports exports exports ex ex- ports at the pr present sent time European countries will be in no position to togo togo togo go about rebuilding without the aid of America Th Their ir resources have been drained and millions of their I citizens have been either killed or disabled so that reconstruction necessarily necessarily will be slow A decade probably will have passed before they can restore a semblance of order and there Is no reason why in iii that I time America cannot have established establish establish- ed itself firmly at the head of the commercial world I r believe too that all this talk about a flood of ot Immigration to America at the close of ot the war is little more than a stretch of nation In the first place foreign countries cannot permit bodied able men and women to leave and the American immigration laws will protect protect protect pro pro- us against those who are not able There is no good oo reason reason reason rea rea- son in my opinion why American prosperity should be affected to any appreciable extent by the cessation of hostilities in Europe 0 o oThere There will be a switch of approximately approximately matel in official salaries when the new administration takes hold of at the state affairs on the first Monday in January 1917 This money which ha has been going into Republican families for so many years will vill be transferred to Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic families for the next four years year at least |