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Show UTAH & WYOMING RAILROAD. Several different newspapers have tried to obtain some definite information respecting this road, who its projectors were, what their plans were, &c. (etc.), but without much success. There is reason to believe that it is designed to connect the Central Pacific with the Colorado branch of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, one of the most powerful railroad corporations on the continent, for the purpose of completing a line across the continent that shall compete with the Union Pacific. It is no secret that the C. P. would gladly escape the coal monopoly of the U. P. and the trans-continental traffic is very heavy and well worth competing for. We believe, however, that we have received a piece of information that gives good grounds for the opinion that there is really a determined purpose to build the Utah & Wyoming from Granger and Randolph through Paradise to Corinne at an early date. On Sunday last, the Chief Engineer of the company called on Mr. A. M. Monteith, an intelligent and respected citizen of Paradise, to ask for information respecting the shortest and most feasible route from Randolph to Corinne. Mr. Monteith, who is familiar with the topography of this whole region, gave it as his opinion that the best route lay through Paradise canyon to Old Paradise, thence over the divide to Mantua, which would probably involve a tunnel in one place. From Mantua to Corinne the route would be direct and easy. The engineer desired Mr. Monteith to convey him over this route, saying that, if it proved direct and feasible it would be chosen and a branch road would be built from Paradise to Hyrum and Logan. Mr. Monteith was to have started out with him some days ago. The engineer stated positively that it was the determination to have trains running from Granger to Corinne before the expiration of the present year, but this seems hardly practicable. It seems, however, to be a settled fact that the immediate construction of this road has been fixed upon. |