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Show IT IS "A SORE GO. . Contract Let For Building the U., it. & 0. The First Division, from Provo to Nephi, to be Commenced Com-menced at Once. The Denver and Ogden Papers Pa-pers Confirm the Truth of the Report. Early yesterday morning The Dis-tatcii Dis-tatcii had an extra on the street containing con-taining the following glad news: Denvek,Co1., April 21. The contract con-tract has been let for the first division of the Utah. Nevada and California railway from Provo Utah, towards the est. No details can be learned. This is the line which, it is claimed, has very quietly scooped a right of way along the Pacific coast, which will give it entrance to every city from Los Angeles to San Francisco. If this be true the company wouhl surely want an outlet for such a valual.de line, and I according to the report, the line from Provo is to be pushed from Provo right into San Francisco, which will put an end to the monopoly of the Southern Pacific in California. A Dispatch reporter waited upon Col. Moore, chief engineer of the U., N. & C, in relation to the above, when the following conversation occurred: oc-curred: "What do you think of the news contained in our extra, regarning. the letting of the contract for the con- struclion of the first division of the LI., N. & C.?" " Well, I should say that it is veiy vivid." "Have you heard of anything in relation re-lation to this important move?" "Well, no, not positively; of course I have been expecting it." "Is it possible for' the contract to have been awarded without you having hav-ing heard regarding it?" "Oh, yes." "In the event of the construction Work commencing and the first division divis-ion being built, where would that portion por-tion of the line extend?" "To Nephi; that place is the terminus termi-nus of the first division." "Is it possible for the contract to have been let without a public solicita tion or Dids?" 'Yes." "Who has charge of this part of the Moore i "Yes', in Millard county." "The Xcics says that the line is to be. pushed right into San Francisco; is that about so?" "Yes. it is understood that the v., N. & C. will be a strong competitor of the Southern Pacific line." " So the report says." "Weil," said Col. Moore, as The Dispatch reporter was ltaving, "I am glad the work is to commence. It is a good thing for the people as it will furnish an abundance of employment; and it will be a good thing for the road as it will secure them the valuable valu-able franchises awd grants of land that have been given to them all through the south." The Denver jews contains suosutu-tially suosutu-tially the same intelligence as is embodied em-bodied in the report given in TnE Dispatch extra, while the Denver lipiMHcan. besides announcing the letting of the contract, refers to the immense outlay of capital that will necessarily be expended before the line shall have been completed. Yesterday's Ogden Daily Commercial Commer-cial contains the following on the subject: sub-ject: "The instant this road evei gets to San Francisco, as it presumably will sometime, it will put an end to the monopoly of the Southern Pacific." |