| Show outlook Favorat 1 ne for ra I 1 soon 0 E E calvin vice president and general manager oregon short lineard line and bishop C W nibley visit basin TAKE MATTER UP IN AUGUST E E calvin vice and general manager of tile the oregon short line railway accompanied by his son anti and bishop C kw nibley financial advisor of the Mormon church mid lind a stockholder and director direct dl recto oz of the union pacific railway accompanied by his son eon were in the uintah basin thre days this past wednesday and thursday calvin and nibley spent approximately four houis boul 8 in vernal and vicinity before press of business compelled them to hasten back in their apperson Jack jackrabbit rabbit they illey were not expected until friday or saturday anti and surprised the local folks by coming coining in about 10 wednesday A hasty meeting was arranged for thealin thu the commercial club rooms and then a short trip to jensen was decided on chas carter and W H furnished their cars and mess 1 13 calvin nibley wm win M anderson J L hayes leslie lesile ashton don B colton B D ed D samuels Samuel 3 made the trip to jensen and return mr calvin was very non com on the subject of their trip or of building into the he uintah basin when asked it if they expected to belld re plying they had all they could do to hold what they but bishop nibley described the situation as very encouraging mr calvin was the possessor of a map and information which showed that he knew more about this country than many people it Is understood that there Is s to be a big railroad meeting in salt lake this evening at which this question may come up in august mr calvin goes goe east to confer with the president of the union pacific railway and it Is understood that the matter will be put up tip to him very strongly stion gly that the road should be built members of the commercial club who madu the trip stated that alter the trip they believed that the uintah basin was nearer it railroad than it ever was before while in salt lake this winder ter attending the don D B colton and byron di D extended an invitation to mr calvin to make a trip til rough this basin this sum mor iner and pay vernal a friendly visit this ar calvin prom ned to do and this trip Is isa ag a result of this promise X it was hoped that he would come cut here with the ako salt lake sociability run buta bitae he started out last tuesday morning and made the trip hurriedly bur hur ridly it was waa his plan to atop a day to in duchesne 6 day in myton and also a 4 day in roosevelt after which lie he would come on to vernal for lack ack of time this could not be carried out in a letter to byron D ne baker this week D S spener assistant passenger agent states that this Is inano sense a trip trill for the purpose of an extension of either the short line or the U P but Is himli simply a trip in quest of information no railroad official of such importance fiola either tho short line or the U P haa ever been in vernal before and many local people believe that the that mr calvin collects on this trip will in ili a large measure influence his opinion when the question comes up before the short line and U P roads in tho future for it Is evident that they cannot put off much longer making a decision as regarding building a railroad into this basin A number of closely informed people have long contended that the union pacific ralli oad would be the cirit fir road into the basin it Is also the general opinion thui that AA when ieli we get one lalli oad we will get two or three at the time tile the uintah railway has long declared that some da they expect to extend from watson to the reservation the moffat load Is Stra strain ing every nerve to raise tho the funds to complete their load from craig to salt lake city and the union has hah long contemplated trio the building of a feeder front from salt lake to wamsutter sutter wyoming by way of this territory it la Is freely predicted that when oil conr makes the bi bieak eak all thi ee of them will do so |
