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Show SANTA FE MAY EXTEND Chief Engineer Burns Visits This City. DROVE IN FROM MANVEL Sent Teams Back From Codnr City-Less City-Less Than 400 Miles From Marys vale to Mnnvel Looked Over the Entire Route and Ooes Back to Los Angeles Some Reasons for the Orent Slgniflcnnce of the Trip Oould vs Hnrrlrnnn E. Olllctte Promoted Railroad Notes Chief Hnglneer R D Durns of the Bintn Ke lines In California, was a Silt Lake visitor yesterday, being en route to his home There Is nothing significant In the mere fait nf 11 railroad rail-road man passing through the railroad center of the West, but In this case It Is decidedly significant and Important Jlr Hums his Just completed one of Ihe most unplennnt trips In the coun trj, thai one requiring a drive from the Hanta IV trucks In California to the tallroad In Utah, which means the des sen of Lincoln county. Nev , the key to the Halt Lake-Los Angeles railroad situitlon Mr Hums was accompanied by V II. Menard, said lo be 11 mining expert from Denver, and the two hnvo been for the list three weeks visiting the lolnls. which might be regarded ns future trnflle developers, on the route between Mnnvel and Mnrysvale The fact that the gentlemen nre engineers proves conclusively that they nre looking look-ing out the route for the Sant.i r, as was stated In these columns over a week ngo when thev had visited the Searchlight mine Of course It does not menu that the Santa I"e Is goInK to build but when the. following facts are studied the trip of the chief engineer engi-neer nt this time of the yenr over severnl hundred miles of desert Is, to say Ihe least. Interesting Here nre the facts After the exploitation of the two Los Ani,oles roads starting from this city and lxis Angeles, the Hmta fc nb-lorhed nb-lorhed the California llislern nnd extended ex-tended It norlhw ird The roid had nlwass been considered ns being In line with n Los Angeles extension Cedar City which was visited h Mr Hums Is In the rente 1 nf the cool and Iron region of tnh and It would not bo any timible fot thi Hanta re to get Ihe product and Ian 1 It In Chicago over Ita own tails There Is every leison lo believe that the entente cordlile between Messrs Hnrrlrnnn nnd Oould Is strnlncd This Is proved by Ihe rlrculirs printed to-div to-div on the Tuel 1 ompnny deal This makes It possible for the Hanta Fe to fot in 11 comblnitlon with the Itlo Orandc to be operative at Denver, Pueblo Pu-eblo and latet In southern Utnh It has nireiidy been shown that the shortest stretch of countrv lacklnir iniu to make the Salt Lake-Los Angeles connection Is that between Mnrysvnle nnd Munvcl nnd this Is the exact rojte Just traversed by the chief engineer of all the Santa IV llnea In California. A combination between the Hmta Fe nnd the Gould lines would give the Santa Te additional feeders for Its California line It would give the Oould lines n short route lo Los Angeles An-geles nnd an cntinncc to Pan Francisco Fran-cisco True It has such cntinnces now but the Irallle Is nil secured by Its trilllc men an I only begrudglngly delivered de-livered or received through the Ogden gateway, which inakea It Imperative for the lines to hive an outlet other than Its present connection The distant c from the end of the branch of the Sintu IV In the end of the Kin Ornnde below Mnrysvnle Is exactly ex-actly 3717 miles a short stretch when millions nnd a ttanscontlnental railroad tire at stake The Color ido Fuel & Iron company has holdings In lion county, the corporation corpor-ation In which the unta IV already has some slight holdings nnd the company com-pany for vvhow control the llnrtiman Oould, Osgood, dates and Haw ley syndicates syn-dicates nre now lighting And lastly thcro Is every reason for Ihe Hintn Fo t iking such uctlon and no reison ugiinst It |