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Show H ROAD FOR SOUTHERN UTAH. B i Maps Being Prepared by Order ot B ' Secretary of the Interior. H Slt Lako City, Franklin K. Lane, H secretary of tho Interior, has direct H cd tho land offices nt Las Vegas, Nov., B ' nnd at Phoenix, Ariz., to prepare maps H covering tho right of way of the H I Southwestern Pacific railroad, -which H . la projected from Denver to San Diego H through southern Utah. Tho railroad H Is seeking governmont aid in build- H Ing its line, sinco its British connoc- H turns cannot do anything in a flnan- P clal waV n account ot tho European BX.. war. Tho directors of tho Southwest- ' ern Paciflc havo filed with tho soc B , rotary of tho lntorlor a request to Ht tako an option on G.OOO.OOO acres ol M , farming land in Utah and Arizona H for a period of twenty-flvo years at H $1.25 an aero. Tho application for H tho option is bolng considered by Sec- H .rotary Lano and It is rumored that H -ho -will como to Utah and go over a H nnrt of tIlD land on which an option fl has bcon requested. |