Show C v U T S supreme P court cour rules A against ins pasah denver and rio grande railroad may acquire denver and wt salt lake line mile out cut in distance to denver the united state supreme court monday removed the last obstacle to linking the denver sale lake and the denvert rio orande western railroads ft hen it denied the moffat tunnell ler league lile of western colorado and the uintah basta basia railroad learue leeg ue the th to sue in federal courts to prevent merger the two to origami representing lin interests in the uintah basin baslin sought to prevent the denver RIO gaarde heern line from purchasing the me deover denver salt lake better known imon rn ti moffat road tle purchase would enable the denver wo rio grange western to link the two to roads through construction st of the dotsero dottero cicoff thereby shortening the rail distance between denver and d salt lake by miles opposition to the proposed pur chr thae e vas lodged by the two I leagues ag on the grounds that it forever would prevent construction of a oad through the uintah basin the interstate commerce commas ida granted the denver rilo orande grande western silon to acquire aeck control of the denver demer salt lake over their vigorous protests pio 0 tests after the interstate corapi compi nirce comm slon the to leadis le agis s sought an injection ui in federal court to prevent the railroads from in me ac cord cordz aice nce with the order the inie ease case was tarried carried to the united states supreme court with the t two no leagues contending that the uintah basin in utah and the ad johng section of north northwestern estern Colora ep ha had 4 been wiep the understanding eliat a railroad would P aventi ally be built through the territory A merzer merger they asserted mould serve to prevent construction st aff a railroad to salt ule lake through the bashi the denver denv r rio orange grange west atrit contended that without linking the two the adv advantages vintages of tle the moffat tunnel ud be destroyed the supreme court based its decision largely upon the importance of solving traffic problems leml present i in ia crossing the continental divald these problems the court d would be lessened by build ing fco U dotsero dottero cutoff which is under construction and using the malfat tunnel averd by the denier dener salt lake rial road tribune |