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Show ROAD FOR SOUTHERN UTAH. Maps Being Prepared by Order o1 Secretary of the Interior. Salt Lake City, Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the interior, has direct ed the land offices at Las Vegas, Nev., and at Phoenix, Ariz., to prepare maps covering the right of way of the Southwestern Pacific railroad, which is projected from Denver to San Diego through southern Utah. The railroad is seeking government aid in 'building 'build-ing its line, since its British connections connec-tions cannot do anything in a financial finan-cial way on account of the European war. The directors of the Southwestern Southwest-ern Pacific have filed with the sec retary of the interior a request to take an option on 6,000,000 acres ol farming land in Utah and Arizona for a period of twenty-five years at $1.25 an acre. The application for the option is being considered by Secretary Sec-retary Lane and it is rumored that he will come to Utah and go over a part of the land on which an option has been requested. |