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Show FAVOR LUND ROUTE FOR KAIBAB ROAD President and Secretary of Salt Lake Commercial Club are Busy in Washington. IF RAILROADS ARE BUILT GOVERNMENT MUST DO IT Interstate Commerce Commission and Government Regulation of Traffic Rates Have Discouraged Capital. That the officers of tho Salt Lake Commercial club arc fully convinced that the southern routo offers the most feasible location for a railroad to the national Kaibab forest timber is proved most conclusively by the fact that President Jensen and Sec. Hal-loran Hal-loran were In Washington recently, for the purpose of lobbying for a government govern-ment railroad from Lund, via Cedar City, Hurricane and Kanab. The following special to the Salt Lake Tribune as published in that paper of the 18th Inst,; "Washington, Dec. 17. At a conference con-ference here this afternoon attended by W. J. Holloran and F. W. Jensen of Salt Lake, the matter of government govern-ment construction of new railroads in Utah was taken up. It was explained ex-plained to A. A. Jones and Chief For ester Graves that railroad construction construc-tion had practically ceased since the government had taken over all natural resources, and in order to develop outlying out-lying districts the logical sequence waB that the government must build or give aid toward building railroads to those districts. Mr. Halloran and Mr. Jensen, representing rep-resenting the Salt Lake Commercial club, spoke in the interests of a railroad rail-road from Lund, Utah, to tho Kaibab forest and the opening up of a great agricultural section in southern Utah. A survey and a prospectus of the proposed railroad will bo prepared at once." The fact that the southern route Is only five miles longer than the ono suggested in a bill introduced in the house some time since by Representative Representa-tive Bryan of Washington, providing for a railroad from Marysvale to tho forest, and in view of tho fact that a much easier grade could be obtained and a far richer section of country developed, by building the road on thin side of the mountain range, has evidently evi-dently appealed to the Salt Lako Commercial club. Theso men are disinterested parties, interested in the development of the entiro state of Utah, and the fact that they are boosting for tho western routo is most significant and should have the effect of securing a careful inspection of both routes by competent compe-tent engineers before a bill is passed authorizing the building of a government govern-ment railroad to tho timber, A full investigation is all wo ask for, and we aro willing to leave the selection of the most feasible route to any committee of disinterested men, bo they engineers or merely hard-headed hard-headed business men. Ab to the contention that under present conditions capital docs not care to engage in the building of railroads, rail-roads, the developments of tho past few years would seem to bear out this statement. Certain it is that there is just as much need for additional addi-tional railroads now as at any time in our past history, but are they being be-ing built? If not, why is it? How, except on the foregoing hypothesis, can this condition be explained? |