| Show railroad officials drawing tentative plans for extension OF denver pacific to kanab the denver pacific railroad company has made application to the interstate inter state commerce commission of the united states tor for bermiss permission I 1 on to build a railroad from denver colorado to san pedro Il aie abor arbor california a distance of at eight hundred and fifteen miles it the railroad Is a built over the route as now outlined it will lessen th the a distance from denver colorado to southern california seven hund red miles cad will pass through a vast amount of 0 country through which chefe ahei e Is no railroad with within a dis distance fance of one hundred miles or more on either side in a letter received lec elved recently by 0 C bowman of kanab from coleman crenshaw president of the denver pacific rell radI road company at salt lake city says that it Is his big I 1 intention ix to build the rial road directly through barab kanab the purpose of the letter was to make an inquiry as to td kanaba natural 0 1 resources as to how many carloads carload loads kanab consumes each year t end nd also how tar far the people havo have to drive their livestock to ship them he also asks for an estimate of 0 the distance from kana b to moab and fro from m chanab kanab down the barab kanab gulch to the Color colorado rdo river inquiry was also made as to the coal minerals and oil if the people in this vicinity are am interested in the contemplated rall way mr air cronshaw crenshaw asks for them to send a man to represent ka Kaa abs in teresta at a hearing which will come up UD in the near future at los angeles california 0 0 bowman read the tha letter to the associated civic clubs of southern ftp utah h which met at deaver beaver saturday october 16 15 where it was voted unanimously to back kanab in the proposition this project of denver deaver pacific railroad company would represent an investment of and would make ma ke employment tor for r ss great many men it would open up to tho the public the national park paik located at the grand canyon cannon of arizona which at the present tima h has no fa 0 loties in other words the traffic have no way of getting into the park unless they go around several hundred miles out of their way it if ill the contemplated railroad la is built ever or this route it would give n r direct entrance into the national park and would make it one ot of the he greatest national parks in the united states the contemplo contemplated n ted route would run from moab aboab to kanab from kanab almost due south down the kanab gulch to the colorado river and thence on to san pedro harbor |
