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Show i; ' SURVEYORS SENT f INTO FIELD. i Surveys of the Flooded District or Salt ! . ' Lake Route to Begin. - ', J11 . Meadow Valley Wash Routo may be V l'f Abandoned Two Hues Open U, In That Case. , ', .X" .$',, , Slnoo tbo disastrous washout cm , the Salt Luke Route Bpcculation hna L Boon rlfn na to whothor or not tho ' ' railroad olllalala would robulld through the Mondow Valloy Wash or f ilnd sorao other foaoablo route. It hna boon auggostod by thoaa who ) eoom to know that tbo boat plau for tbo Salt Liiko Routo to adopt ia to go by way of Ploobo and coming Into i ,. tbo main lino near Lao Vegao, or to "" brnuoh from Lund running to Oodar Olt7 aud ou. down by wny of St. Georga aud to Moapa, tboro conuoot- iug with tho rnulu lino. Tho moat foaaiblo of tbo two, montlouod paaaiblo routes would, in tbo oatlmnt- iou of all oonaervntlvo roou, bo ibo laat nnmod. aud tbo St. Georgo peoplo are working Btrouuously to havo tbo road oomo tbnt way. 1 It h uuderetood, too, that a number of Provo pooplo. hoavlly Interested lu tbo Moapa ooiiutry, nro working to tbo eamo end aB tbo St. GeoreK poople, and it would Beem tbHt tho Irou oounty oitizeua. ospsololly tboeo of Oedar Glty ehould join forces with thorn and oU"or laduuamouta ounugli to tho Salt Lako Routo oUlolnla to bring tho inuin liuo of. tooir mad tula way. Tho ofllolala of tho road havo alrondy sent ont aurvoyora to la- ' vostignto both proposed routa, and A upou tbo completion of thelr4 In- r reitigntiona oomething dellnlto will 4 " bo glvon out to tbo publlo. sj . Fruru one of our exchanges wo , -wr"'"' .wiiViw-or Cj ' Interest: Uaforo leaving for Loa Angeles Sunday aftoruoon, Mr. Clark gave J- ' out too following Interview on bo- . ' '.half of hlraeolf nud W. H. Bunoroft, I first vioo proaldaut of tbo Salt Lako Routo: "Tho weather oouditloiiB alno tbo woahouta. In Ibo Meadow Valley WhbIi 1 havo been mob tliat n thorough ox 1 nmluetlou nf tho present Hoe hie I not baen poailblo, aud suoh an ox- I nmlnntinn oaunot bo made until Inter. '9 but na soon b tho wenthur will 1 parwlk the raattor will ba gonu over I carefully by oompotont engiueorn to I determine tbo oxaot amount cf 1 duniago dono aud tho fenslbility of i ' reoaiistcuotiug th Hue thrni gb tho 1 Meadow Valley Wa8h in It former 1 looatiou or ohonboro. In tho 1 menptlme rceotiiiolsannooB nro boing I rapde on two otbor roulpa with view I to nacortalulug If eatlsfaotory nltor- 1 nato ia available. It it ia not found I fna3iblo to robuiid tbo liuo through I tho Meadow Valloy Wash on an nbaolutely sofa basis, then It ia poaalblo nno of tbo other llnea will bo ndoptod and tho rood oouatruoted on auoh route. However, an yet nothing doUnlto haa beou deoldcd : upon and nothing wan bo or will bo decided ns to what ia to bo done in the futnro until foil toporta nro submitted by tho onglneora giving the rotnlU of their inveBtlgntiona." v TO GIVE UP WASH LINE. Itt ia prtty genarally undnrstood. - altboDSh U has not bon dcllnitely aunoouol that lb Mendow Vallsy Wmh lino will be abaudoned. There nra two alternative rout. One wonld , leave tbe prevent Hun cf tie 8u Pdro near Land, going in the direct Ion of Ootlar City and St. Georga I and meeting the wtabliihed line of the Salt Lake Route near Menpa. Tbo other would range toward tho north and weat and would touch Pi-oohe, Pi-oohe, aklrting tbo roothllla and oom-iug oom-iug in to tbo present line about fifty - milea thia aldo of Laa VegaB. If tbo Meadow Valley Wash Uno ia to bo ro-CPOBtruotod, ro-CPOBtruotod, u high liuo will b eur-veyodt eur-veyodt During hia visit in Salt Lako Mr. GJftrk made it positive that no time ia to be lo?t In tbe reiionBtruotion of V tho road. Just oa soon as a ronte la ;Jl decided npon, constrpatlon owrpfl i'I ll bo.ostabliibed tuiil the work of patohlng up tbo mieaing seotlon will bo ootuuiouced. , Mr. Olark expects to returu to Salt Lako lu about two weeks. |