Show DIRT IS 13 FLYING THIS SIDE OF DF STEAMBOAT A LETTER FROM COUNTY ATTORNEY AT CRAIG TO VERNAL MAN ANNOUNCES ANNOUNCE THAT ACTUAL WORK HAS BEGUN ON MOFFAT ROAD work hat has actually begun on the moffat road this olde elde of steamboat bar ir that sounds rounds too rood good to be true but the information tomes omes bjorn such it a direct oaid reliable source that Is no reason to doubt it mr D kinnahan a real estate and insurance man of vernal la Is in re eidt of a letter aiom av W D B wile county attorney of moffat county lu ili which la is the foll following oming interesting paragraph I 1 well they commenced making the P dirt fly on the extension from steamboat to craig this hla morning and it looks as aa though wo we will have hae a rail road yet before tile the end of the world 11 the letter was dated at ct ara aig I 1 g olo friday Novem bei 8 fi dilday iday Is ie a good da as nomo home of the most 10 important events in history have not only bun beun on oil that day da but have hae been finis bd on oil thit that day the routt county Seu sentinel tinel pub fished at steamboat springs I 1 a copy of which bearing date of novem her ber 8 has reached this alila office and has bab an item headed good Rail railroad news 1 I the item was probably written two or three days balfore bf fore the late date of publication and la Is as fol iowa As netar near as the sentinel can learn leam extension of the main line of the moffat road from steam boat springs to blayden and will begin in a few days bidders for the grading and the rock work have been on the glouid for a number of das and all are prepared to sail in the minute the contracts are let the chances are that the branch to the anthracite country will start at about the sanie same time the craig empire of NoN november ember 9 published the following interesting item A couple of weeks ago the umpire empire announced that construction of the moffat extension would commence within a certain number of days but had to hedge because of the fact that the right of way may had not all been secured now there beems nothing in the way as a corn com of craig and blayden aitt zens zena have hane guaranteed the tree free right of way in consideration of which newman arb agrees to commence work at once grading tools tents and other paraphernalia are being hauled to the various arlous points aleong the line and men have been coming from denver dener on every train the latter part of this neck eek to go to work on the extension one contract for fifteen miles of grading has been let and it is expected a si millar contract will be awarded today actual con st ruction has already commenced and by the middle of next week weather permitting things will be humming all along the line meanwhile the union pacific is unloading cars of steel rails at wamsutter sutter and it Is probable that the old prediction that the U P will mill be the first to pulla pull null a train into craig will be fulfilled when newman erb first gained control of the ibe road the woid mold was mas sent out from denver to the effect that operations would mould begin immedi abely and that one thousand men would mould be put to work soon afterwards report had bad it that actual work would biot begin until spring in a later interview in new york mr erb haq quoted as saying that grading would begin as soon as titles could be secured to rights of way may between steamboat and craig steps were xe re taken to secure such titles the carey boys whose ranch extends for ia a distance of nine miles along the route offered free permits throng h that territory other owners of land also came through with of offers 1 1 ers of free rights ofay the on only 1 y ones left me were re non rI residents dents of continued from page 4 t 41 DIRT IS FLYING THIS SIDE OF STEAMBOAT continued from page 1 whom hom there are not many it la Is claimed that one or two of them insisted on being paid the more mere fact that work has begun on this side of steamboat will stimulate activity in tho the basin no matter how long it takes to reach vernal there will be a good healthy boom here next spring maybe this fall and winter just juat as long as 1 lo 10 in progress so BO long will people come flocking into this great undeveloped empire of northeastern utah the history of railroad building and country development la is that home seekers have tried to get in advance of the road when the first elret grading was done this side of denver the population of routt county began to increase slid land land i values alues advanced A large number of routt county people have been coming to the ashley valley and the reservation for coteral years but the number Is 13 small email to what it will be in a few months there has been enough printed in the vernal express in the last fifteen years about rubout the coming of the mortal road to make a large sized book and oft times tho the readers have been thoroughly disgusted with the reading and many times the management of the paper has been disgusted with the printing but hope eternal ever springs in the human breast and the paper printed and the people read evir evi r hoping and trusting that there come a time when the steel ribbons would glisten under a sun that shines here more days in the year than in any other country on earth let us all trust that this news Is not too good to be true in a few days we will have more definite in formation |