Show RIO GRANDE AFTER COAL if deal Is consummated a railroad Is likely to be built into castle valley soon the extended visit of robt worrester Por rester the coal eipert ot the P V coal pan to emera county accompanied by one of the leading engineers ot the rio grande western railway company has again boosted the hope 0 our citizens to the expectation ot seeing a railroad into this section 0 the county within a corn ively short tune mr forrestor has spent the past 18 dais in county for the purpose oaten sibly of examining coal lands of which he had exported before A birge portion of that time his spent in convulsion binyon belo v the to of emery but coal fork straight cotton bool and other cadion coal measures were visited 13 uell ind all the points direfully cire fully ind minutely en by mr forrester in a note book made and provided for important pur poses the coal man left tor hunting ton while mr forrester is quite well acquainted with the coal prop arties of huntington cannon it is quite likely he will look up some oddi and ends some new d sceneries that may have occurred since his last visit mr forrester ordered three tons of coal from the griffith mine shipped to bistle gate tor a test numerous consultations have been held by the d company s coal min with coal land owners and the mat ter ot options has been frequently dis cussed although negotiations have not et reached the point where papers and coin have been some of the coal aind v are wearing broad er em lea and are rattling kes and auls in their pockets to familiarize them selves with the prospective music of jingling coin all this seeming mastery and what i portends would be full unravelled were it within the province of ahe progress at this time to do so one thing la evident however ai d that is that behind mr forrester IB the ro grande railway system and that concern is re ching out tor more coil lands these they want either to devel op immediately or themselves or else seek to control them and thus exclude some other coi cern from cecur ing a large acreage of nl here and building a railroad line to tap the property e aro inclined to believe the grande people wi 1 soon make good their oft attempted bluff to extend their railroad system into this portion of em ery county remarks that have bateh been heard to tall from the lips of those in the high councils of the company this course seems more than likely accompanying mr forrester was an old kio grande estern engineer whose time atae spent wholly in ascertain log the elevation of the different licali ties visited this matter 0 s for it ig the first time such work has ever been performed for the bio grande system in this locality iho both mr fossler and the en gincer has been most thorough h L thompson of the home of railroad contractors spent bev eral daas iba the coal expert and en gincer but just whit mr thompson e business waa did not recently a railroad official naked a what our ie would do toward encouraging a railroad it was hinted that it a free right of wa was assured and some grading done for freight es the railroad was reada to talk business there would be no difficulty we believe in securing a free right of way but how much grading bould be donate 1 13 an tit I 1 hon orange seel ester div voiced tie ti e sentiment of many a hen he said I 1 give a railroad company a free of vay over any lind I 1 possess llao give sufficient ground for a depot site and ard I 1 think thit th it is all t corn pany could ask of any citizen it others choose to donate some work instead of land all very good that would arnd to even matters up I 1 think if there 14 any contracts tor grading to be let our peo pie should be given preference over out siders other things being equal the citizens of the various mettlen ants should be given a chance to do the grid ing in their e localities within the period of mr Forree far visit here to other men have been in j the county one of whom secured some i options on coil land in ferron canyon |