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Show - Seems A ; Certainty ! Meeker, Salt Lake Railroad Starts Actual Construction Work. At the Commercial club Tues-. Tues-. jay night, Supt. H. C. Means, alio has just returned from a lrip to Salt Lake and Denver, Stated that on every hand there las talk of a railroad for the Ifinta basin, and that there has no doubt but that this sec-'tion sec-'tion would, within a reasonable time, be on the railroad map of : the West. . j The latest move -the iucorp-tfatiou iucorp-tfatiou of the Grand Valley, Meeker & Salt JLake road and fie commencement of construction construc-tion near Newcastle, Colorado, -is a prominent topic of con-rersation, con-rersation, not only in railroad circles, but tv the public generally. gen-erally. It is the prevailing opinion that the new road will belong to the Hill interests and that it will have, therefore, traffic arrangements with the Midland, which has its tracks from Grand junction to Colo-rado Colo-rado Springs, and parallels the 1). & R. G. from" jGlenwcod Springs to the former, place. Actual construction work has lrun on the proposed road. Mr.; Means stated" that the :nlk in Denver is that there is no question but that Moffat has ecured the necessar3r funds vith which to bore; the. four-1 nile tunnel r through .'James! eak, and that ; next year fur-her fur-her construction- work-: of the D. N. & P. will take place. -The Uintah Railway com-fit.ny com-fit.ny is not idle and already has teel on the ground to push its racks onward trotn Dragon. Ahile nothing official has been :iven out b' the company, it is Mieved that once further con-tructi( con-tructi( n work is commenced, the road will gradually push on to the Uinta basin. |