Show WILL ROUTE BE CHANGED alio great disaster that has hap to the salt lake routes line in tho meadow valley wish section pronounced by railroad men as the t greatest calamity in railroad history is a hard blow to all utah as well as f to tho bondholders bond holders the exact amount of d imago will not be known t until alic now going over tho route make their report which is expected about the but it Is known that over one hundred miles of the line is destroyed and that the damage will amount to millions of dollars in addition to this direct loss the line or rather that pirt of it destroyed will be out of commission for a length of time not less than sixty or ninety days eo that tho loss in damage and traffic will be enormous besides tins there is P the loss of confidence in a road that runs through a country subject to such terrific washouts wa shouts and where at best time is lost in travel owing tp so much trestle work and sharp curves vc believe another route will be selected where tho line will secure against such disasters as ex penen ced in the meadow valley wash country washington county offers a route secure against such washouts wa shouts of as ar 1 good a grade as the meadow valley I 1 wash with less sharp curves and a route that will shorten the line bc teen salt lake and moapa several y miles in addition to this a route through this country would tap a t rich agricultural and horticultural k section and hurry along irrigation projects that contemplate reclaiming acres of the richest land that lies under alie sun allot which would be tributary to the line then too there is a great number of promising mineral prospects that would be developed with the advent of a railroad into this territory lower down after leaving ton county alic line would run v t through rich agricultural lands and and a strongly mineralized section t in fact the line would have a good country to pass through all the way nearly that to us appears in every way better for a railroad route than the route through the meadow valley country this matter will be properly laid before mr bancroft the vice dent of tho salt lake route in a day or two alie washington county 4 i commercial club having taken the nutter up and appointed a delegation to wait upon eliat gentleman and tell him what the people of this county arc prepared to do aa an inducement for the line to build i through the county free rights of way depot bites etc are guaran teed and alie delegation is given a free hand in any arrangements they may make the commercial club being to back them in any 4 thing they may say or do in the if matter J C while of course it is impossible to say whether alio route will be built through this county or not vo tho matter will bo very carefully cart fully considered and careful consideration wo fed almost certain will decide the day in favor of the washington county route aa the shortest safest and most profitable one the fact that the southern company has contracted alie government to remove feet of lumber from the plateau within four ears makes it appear that frank A dudley and his associates socia tes an pretty confident of having alio railroad built within ali at time |