Show I I UTAH MAY HAVE HAVEA AVE A NEW ANEW Alt OF HE PURCHASE OF THE MOFFAT ROUTE AND COMPLETION OF TUNNEL PLANNED Financiers Financier Contemplate Dranch Branch Into Basin Provo I Proposed Terminus of Road Los Angeles Angeles Plans Plans for the consolidation consolidation con con- of a half dozen ozen Ion long dormant dor dor- mart mant railroad enterprises in California California Califor Califor- nia Ut Utah h Arizona and Colorado toward to toward toward to- to ward the possible possible promotion of a n new newline newline newline line which abich may form an important link in a transcontinental system tem has been announced in Los Angeles The new road which Is is not yet Incorporated incorporated incorporated in In- and for which the pro pro- motors maters say stock will not be offered to the public is named the C Utah Pacific It is dubbed b by the promoters the C U U. U P. P t system and they have devised ed a symbol symbol sym bol of a cup and saucer for it Officers of its financial department department depart depart- ment meat have been opened on the tenth floor of the Marsh Stron Marsh building Ninth and Spring streets in Los Los Angeles and nd J in 1 Denver and and Salt Sail Lake as well Thoa Thos with the promotion promotion promotion promo- promo tion include Judge John T. T Pope former fanner attorney general of Utah George Blair lair Sturgeon former consulting consulting con con- suiting engineer University of Cali Cali- California fornia II M M. M Gillam of Los Angeles Arch L Mitchell former state corporation corporation cor cor- potation engineer of Oklahoma and once connected with General Goethals in the construction of ot the Panama canal C C. B. B Ohearn of the Neal Stationery company I. I Sterling formerly for merly of the Gold Seal Refining com company Coin Coin- om- om pany pony and Utah and eastern capitalists capital fists Lose names names' according to the promoters will not be made mad public until conferences now being conducted conduct conduct- ed are concluded As told b by Mr Gilliam secretary of the temporary promotion organization the ensemble follows The proposed road will be in three divisions The first calls for the purchase purchase purchase pur pur- chase outright of The fhe he Moffat route rotte for or which promoters say say sayan an option has been obtained at a price of or 32 cents tents on the appraised dollar Valuation valuation the completion of the construction con con- of ef the tho now unfinished tunnel tunnel tun tun- ad nel t from frem the Denver side of the mountains to a point near Kemmling Kemm Kemm- Kemmling ling Colo with the resultant abandonment of twenty-three twenty miles milea of the existing road over the mountains and the rho straightening the of-the road Into in into to its terminus at at C Colo This will call for expenditure of for the purchase e I af the road and an additional forthe for forthe forthe the completion of the tunnel The The second division contemplates lates construction of a new line fib fAill the Craig terminus over o the Tampa Tamp Tamp pl pla- pla tau through the towns of Maybelle and Lily Colo and tapping the Elk Creek oil fields and tence ranee dropping nto into the gigantic and undeveloped Uintah basin of Utah tah touching the towns of Jensen Vernal Taft Roosevelt Myton blyton My ton i and Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne cleans and thence via the Straw terry Nerry river A dozen undeveloped have been lo located on th tbt way to Heber City Utah with a final final fin fin- al terminus for the division at Provo For the construction of the lino fir Mr Ir Gilliam Gilliam- says that charters aready already al a already al- al ready have been procured for or Colorado Colo Cob rado redo Wyoming and Utah and that two on the Strawberry river riv river er r comprising COO acres each have been purchased outright and are being be be- being be- be ing big platted and that six others for tor which the title has been conveyed are awaiting like development lie Ile declares he and his associates have under option twenty-one twenty power sites aites of acres each it being planned planned plan plan- ned to develop these and the resultant result ant electric power for the operation of the road The New York system of electric locomotives rather than the Pacific electric railway system of self powered powered cars will be used he said |