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Show WELLINGTON TO EMERY ROAD From All Reports It Look Like This Road Was About Ready for Construction The reports keep coming that the electric road down through the Valley is going to be built and built soon, and this week they are coming more persistently per-sistently than ever. The survey was made from Wellington to a point near Cleveland about a month ago as reported report-ed by this paper at the time. Now the report is out that the contracts for grading are let and that the work is to begin at once. In fact it is current report re-port that A. L. Fullmer of Orangeville has a contract and will begin work right away. According to the Price Advocate the name of the road is to be "Eastern Utah Railroad Company" and its officers are: Henry Wade, president; Orange Seely, vice president: Dr. I. R. Parsons, treasurer; treas-urer; Dr. M. V. Moloney, secretary; and these gentlemen with W. J. Tidwell. W. S. Avery and H. C. Pitts form the directorate. lt.s continually stated as an electric road although the statement is that they expect to run by steam for the first operation of the road until the electric povver can be secured. It is claimed thit the hea.lpuariers of the power portion of the road is planned for the Cottonwood canyon and that thj immense im-mense reservoir and water poer possibilities pos-sibilities of that stream are to be utilized uti-lized for this purpose. This will make the headquarters at either Castledale - or Orangeville. From all reports it suerus probable that the company is making their arrangements ar-rangements to begin as soon as possible although we have not been able to get information from anyone who is in position posi-tion to absolutely know what is being done. In the list of officers is the name of I Orange Seely of Castledale. He was interviewed yesterday at his hnmj and found to be as busy with his usual tasks j as though he had not been made vice ! president. He says that he does not I jnow much about the details of the proposition but that he thinks it is a sure-go. He is not posing as a capitalist capital-ist but was asked for his support in the ' matter and told t ie promoters that if j there was anything t.iat he could do to j help th people to get the railroad they j have been needing so long that he j would be glad to do it that he did not have much money to spend but that he might be able to give some time to the matter if that would help. He does not think that the company can be far enough along with the preliminaries as yet to begin the grading, but expects the promoters to be down through the Valley first to interview the people and see what they can do for them in the way of right of way, depot sites, and bonuses before they will be in shape to actually grade on the road. Mr. Seely expects to go over and find out about the condition of things in the near future fut-ure and says that when he is ready to give out anything that he will know it is right before he does and then be only to glad to tell the news if it looks favorable favor-able for a road through the Valley. As to the matter of bonuses the report re-port is that the people of Wellington have obligated themselves to furnish all grounds necessary for the terminal with right of way and to grade the road for eight miles out from the town. The chances are that the promoters - will be down this way in a short time and call some meetings with the people of the different towns and explain what they want to do and get the expressions of the people as to what uhey will do. The proposition looks favorable and with the right kind of encouragement f rom the people of the Valley the chances are that the actual construction may begin be-gin this fall and be pushed along in the spring to an early completion of a line between Emery and the Rio Grande at Wellington. If any people in the world were ever ready for the coming of a railway the people of Emery county are ready and we feel sure that they will be ready to do the right thing by the promoters of I the road when they come down to look over the field. |