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Show RAILROAD IS . . PUSHING ON. Construction Work Progressing On Meeker-Salt. Lake. ,New Castle, Dec. 20. The Grand Rivtr-Meeker and Salt Lake' railroad has completed the fir. t tw: miles of ; iircad grade and , have several hundred hun-dred men at work as well as a big gang of graders on the line. . The surveyors are now ', at Piseauce creek, 20 mik s from here. At Pttrolith camp two drills are working prospecting for oil, but no wort! has been received of their success. The same people who are backing the road are said to be behind the oil drilling. The railroad is said to be projected to tap the gilsouite fields of the Uintah Uin-tah basin 'ami 'the oilfield at Rangely and Standard Oil money is supposed to be behind be-hind the company. The directors of the -Grand. Valley, .Meeker & Salt I.;.ke railway company met in Denver Den-ver December i. ih and issued $15,000,000 in gold bonds to build and equip ihe road. Last Saturdry and Sunday a number of railroad men were on the grounds of the uew railroad rail-road at New Castle, bui their mouths were scaled as to who was bdhi.i 1 th t building of the Grand River-Meeker road. Rumor Ru-mor has it now that the new road is simply a continuation of the Midland, which is to be taken over by the Rock Island or the Burlington, both of which roads have been endeavoring endeav-oring to secure a route to Salt Lake and the Pacific coast. It is claimed that bonds sufficient suf-ficient to cover the cost of the road for the first hundred miles have been told ami that there will be no trouble in selling the babauce. Cars of horses and mules and construction machinery are still " arriving at New Castle, and it is believed that within a very j short time information as to : who is responsible for the road will be given out. Meantime, work of throwing "j dirt is progressing in thedirec-3 thedirec-3 tioa of Meeker. Rifle Tele-I Tele-I gram. I The Denver Republican of I Tuesday annnouuees that the work of grading on the Grand River-Meeker railroad is now iu progress and that twenty miles v ill be ready for the rails before spring. |