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Show BIG MOVE EXPECTED. SOUTHERN -PACIFIC NOT KLUFF-1NG KLUFF-1NG THIS TIME. Salt Lake Tribune. Several people well versed in railroad rail-road matters yesterday stated that The Tribune was exactly right when in its story of the Southern Pacific being be-ing after Iron county coal. "Further than this and the building of a southern south-ern line,'' said one, ''the Southern Pacific Pa-cific is makiug the nurvey via Clear Lake to form a Rio Grande Western connection for Ogden and at the same time be the first road to the great sulphur sul-phur deposits. By such a move it would have its own coal within easy reach of its line at Ogden. A letter just received by The Tribune from a railroad roan in southern Utah says that active work on the part of the Southern Pacific is looked for The company is not trying to parallel any other road, but is looking out for itself and proposes to soon startle the Utah railroad world by its sudden development develop-ment of southern Utah. It is further reported that Thomas Taylor of Cedar City, who in the past has owned considerable coal and iron lands in that vicinity, has made several sev-eral trips to San Francisco of late presumably pre-sumably for the purpose of making a deal with the Southern Pacific. Just as the statement was made that the surveyors were in the employ of the California corporation so can the. fact be plainly stated that the company has had a deal of some sort with the j owners of eoal lands near Cedar. I Any praetical-minded person, after : figuring on the vast deposits of iron, j coal and sulphur in the territory in i quest ion and the short distance to be covered to form either a Southern 1 Pacific or Santa l'e connection, will j plainly discern the benefits to be derived de-rived to hot!) companies in the event of their building the inexpensive nraneh. The only wonder i. that Mich ; 1 road ha- not been built beiorc, |