Show DENVER AND mo RIO mm GRANDE FILES RIGHT OF M WAY Y PLATS PLATO Proposed Branch Leaves the Main Line tine At Colton i b bRights Rights of way vay and maps showing he the route to be Le taken tal by y tile ui branch alien of ol the Den Denver ver Rio Hio Grande Graude w were re offered lor tor riling at the federal land and o l ce Saturday but as the as-the the territory tei- tei through which the proposed line me would pass is in the tile jurisdiction o of r the federal land laud oHice at Vernal the he filings were forwarded to that office The fhe proposed branch ranch leaves the he main line of the Denver Rio- Rio Grande at Colton and the maps which were vere offered for filing show the rights of f wa way between Vernal and Rand Rand- lett ett No other survey between these pOInts which are about twenty-five twenty miles apart has been made by any other ther road seeking entrance into me we Uintah basin The Hie loute loule to be taken by the branch ranch branch after it ft leaves the lie main line life will be in a northeasterly direction From rom Colton to Duchesne the line 1 ib is almost most direct The fife distance between these hese two towns is about five tilty miles The road then follows close to the Life ae Duchesne river and does not go into Myton 1 but strikes cross across the tile Myton lyton bench Among the towns which are on the right Ight of way ar are Duchesne 1 Randlett Randlett ii Myton ion Bench e north 1 til l Myton ir bench ench Ouray valley Dry Gulch and Lake Lake ake Fork All v of the towns are surrounded by large agricultural i nets i The mileage of the proposed line I will vill be about five eighty miles This is the line which was surveyed surveyed sur- sur eyed by two corps of ot Denver Rio Grande rande engineers during the fall months and for which it is claimed there acre is not a grade more than 1 i per gent cent The road will run through a mountainous district immediately out I of f Colton It is estimated at the operating perating department offices in Salt I Lake that some of the construction work vork will go as high as a mile but that the average for the theline thene i iUne line Une ne from Colton to Duchesne will be beabout beabout bebout about bout a mile Some doubt is expressed as to the intention of the Denver Rio Grande Grandeo to o build that part of the line be- be between between tween tween Duchesne and Randlett at the time ime of the construction of the tile road from rom Colton to Duchesne as the development development development de de- work has not been extensive exten exten- extensive sive ive there The right of or way between between be- be tween those two places was filed in order to hold it against any ny co com com- line This is the first filing made by the Denver Rio Grande but it is known I that hat the Union Pacific system has made filing on government lands for rights of way from the western entrance entrance entrance en en- trance to the Uintah basin Herald Herald Herald- I Republican F Four ur widely separated nooks and crannies in Utah are enthused with the buoyant hope that this spring or summer will witness initial constructive constructive con con- work looking to the build build- building ing into their respective localities of the longed-for longed permanent branches During the past w week elt word I Ihas has been dropped that there will be lone one of the prettiest constructive rail rail- I Ilone road oad races Utah has witnessed since 1 the late COs GOs when the Central Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- J and the Union Pacific made I track laying records and finally m meton met meton l lon on the Promontory in central Box BoxElder BoxElder BoxElder Elder county This will be a contest to see which road can an first enter the fertile ferUle Uintah Uin tah talf basin and serve serve citizens of that valley with its acres render finder canals and acres more of arable lands Not only that but there thoro Is the promise of a branch line Hue Into St. St George Utah's Dixie land another into the rich mineral districts districts dis dis- I of Deep Creek while CramI from Cram I comes the word that abig a aI big factory and railroad for 1917 I is 15 the aim of or of the enterprising citi citi- citizens zens down there Herald Herald can |