Show BONUS FOR MOFFAT ROAD VIA VERNAL Suggested mass meeting 31 ol 01 j citizens of valley bs be call ed to Dis discuss niss proposition J L hayes manager of the W P coltharp Mei cantil ho has just 0 id cd from his ea stein buying trip found plenty of optimism and enthusiasm eveia where he went and he heald lots of uintah basin talk as far away as chicago and st louis in the latter city lie he was informed that activities are soon to begin in the oil field lecent ly located by gorse and others two oil ilg li with mith a capacity each of feet aie 11 3 to be shipped in won soon and the chances axe ate that drilling will begin in tile the cal eaily IV spring in ml all I hayes interviewed many business niell men relative to the in prospects of inducing the ingnal management ement of the denver and salt sall lake lahe railroad to biang the road by way of oreen green t gorge and he believes belle that if ie the proper steps ai abc c taken it can be accomplished and suggests that a mass masa of the elti citizens zens of this valley be called for the immediate future to discuss tho tion when the engineers were called to denver last fall they are said sad to have made the statement that the final sur vey will come down the gorge T the e reason they believe the road will be built through the gorge Is ia that it will be cheaper in the long i lun un even though the first cost of construction st will be pel pei mile as against per mile further south newman erb president of the company Is perhaps now on his way from europe having baving decided to leave there as soon as the news reached him that denver had voted the hc bonds it Is firmly believed continued on page 3 BONUS FOR FOH MOFFAT AT ROAD VIA VERNAL continued from page 1 in denver that the preliminary work of surveys and elevations i will begin within to sixty days and while arrangements f or his work are being made bids will be for the tunnel construction will require tle tive labor of 1600 nien men for years and also he building of towns of 2000 population at each portal the voting of the bond issue has also made it possible to finance the dent ei salt lake railroad from I 1 the terminous ter minous into aalt alt lake city this means un an expenditure of new capital in colorado and in utah of not loss less than in addition to the cost of the tunnel construction and it will also give employment to aiom I 1 om to men for the next three or four years it is planned to complete the konsti notion of the simultaneously with the tunnel or before |