Show WOULD WOULD- NAVE HAVE UNCLE SAM BUILD RAILROAD Congress Congressman an Urges Government enl to Build Kaibab Forest Line Proposing that the the- United Stat States a government should build a railroad from Marysvale into the Kaibab national na na- forest in order t that attha the government govern govern- ment might receive receive ve adequate returns return on its stumpage e which has been advertised advertised ad ad- for sale and that purchasers might have means of transportation James W. W Bry Bryan n congressman from W Washington introduced d a bill in congress con con- gress this this this' week authorizing the de de- agriculture to build the railroad It is estimated that will build and equip the road It is is' is estimated esti mated that the increased value of the timber to td the government will b be on account of oC the building of the road One of the big problems that confronting the forestry forest forest- ry department is a means of transportation trans for the timber The forest is miles from Marysvale sand and the tho government has made an allow allowance nce o of a thousand board oard feet o account ac count of the difficulties of transportation transport transport- tran transportation port port- adon The country is rough k ken n and the railroad companies say the tonnage would not justify the tho building of the line unless the timber is sold to a big concern t that at could handle the timber in large quantities It is proposed d by Mr 1 Bryan that the government operate t the railroad in iD the same same manner in Jn which it operates operates operates oper oper- ates the reclamation se service vice railroad from Boise to t the e. e dam and as it is planned to operate the government owned railroad f in Ala Alaska ka In his address addres Mr Bryan said that t there ere is more than two billion feet of lumber on the Kaibab forest one half halt haltof of which is ia going to to waste and the tho only feasible railroad connection is with the D. D R G at Marysvale Mr Bryan also alRo called attention to the report of Chief Forester Graves in I which he ther things OJ Aside however from op opening ning up r the national forest such railroads would greatly benefit many many adjacent sections which are now shut off from the markets and stimulate te the development development development devel devel- and us use of much public land which now is comparatively idle The Kaibab ra railroad l oad for exa example would traverse a a rich agricultural agricultural- grazing and mineral district in southern Utah and northern Arizona whose dev development devel l. l would be gI greatly atly hastened by government construction of the road |