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Show I Union Pacific Ry. Construction I Program Involves $5,000,000 B Two Railroad Branch Lines and Four Hotels for Tourist j Travel Are to Be Completed Under Present Plans. m Tho Union Faciac railway system Is K now committed to a program of do- IB volopmcnt of tho industrial and sconic JB rosourcos of tho southwostorn part of M Utah, tributary to tho Los Angolcs & JB Salt Lako railroad lines, involving B3 tho oxpendlturo of somowhoro In tho m nolghborhood of 15,000,000. Confirmation of this plan has boon I glvon nt tho general ofllcos in Salt M ' Lako of tho Los Angolcs & 8$lt Lako railroad and tho Oregon Short Line, I following Intimations mado during a 1 program of investigation and pro-I pro-I llmlnary work which has occupied tho 1 1 major part of tho past summon f I Tho program lncludos tho construe- ' tlon of tho Delta-Fillmoro and tho li ,j Lund-Cedar branch linos, tho formor 1 i being already woll undor way; tho l taking' over of tho Cedar City hotel. l! begun by tho Commercial club ntthat M placo as a community project somo H years ago; tho construction of hotols if at Zlon National park and Dryco iflj canyon, and of u smallor structuro at jH Cedar Droaks, which -will furnish Jf meals and similar sorvico and a limit- IK od numbor of rooms, but which is not H dosignod to compoto with tho main structuro at tho Codar City terminal, twonty-Jlvo miles away. Roughly speaking, tho construction of tho branch linos, with all thoir appurtenances and requirements, will Involve tho oxpendlturo of somowhoro around $3,000,000, It is calculated by railroad ofllelals, figuring somo sixty-flvo sixty-flvo miles of railroad lino at an Investment In-vestment of around $G0,000 a mllo. Open Great Territory. Tho Killmoro branch will open up a vast omplro of agrlcultual territory woll supplied with wator, of which tho main drawback linn boon lack of adequate transportation facllltlos to carry to market tho valuablo farm, orchard and truck gardon products it is cnpablo of growing. Tho Lund-Cedar branch will also servo to dovelop a considerable area of agricultural land, but thoro tho wator supply is not so largo nor so cQtnin as that in tho neighborhood of Fillmore, which is undor a canal from tho stored wntor in tho Sovior brldgo dam. Tho Codar branch, however, how-ever, will sorvo to make avallablo to tho markot or smoltor tho ltnmenso Iron oro doposlts, dovolopmont of which has long beon tho dream of tho Industrial promoters of that district. dis-trict. Prosenco of bthor inlnorals in tho Tushar range has long been known, but development has boon rotarded for many reasons, chlof of which is tho lack of transportation. Coal Is being mined near Codar City in Coal Crook canyon, and other largo doposlts do-poslts aro known to Ho In tho mountains. moun-tains. . Tho attention of tho railroad men nt prcesnt however, Is bolng dovoted to tho dovolopmont tjf tho scenic rosourcos ro-sourcos of tho southern Utah region. This, with tho adjoining wondors of tho Knlbab forest and tho north rim of t "'and Canyon of tho Coloado, Is ' .wiiht of visitors and tho des- A descrlptlvo writers a vast wonderland. Plan For Tourists. Whllo tho presont nnnuoncomont hns beon foroshadowed at various times both In tho visits of promlnont railroad ofllelals and In tho uaturo of tho Investigations they nro making, tho raoro doflnlto word has awaited tho presont visit to tho southern Utah roglon of a party of railroad ofllelals whoso makeup Indicates clearly a study of accommodations to bo provided pro-vided for a heavy tourist trafllc Into that region which tho Bystoni ofllelals hopo to build. An Important stop In ibrlnglng tho program to fruition was tho visit to tho various beauty spots mado oarly In July by a party of trafllc onicIalB of tho systom, headed by Carl It. Cray, president; H. M. Adams, vlco-prosldont vlco-prosldont In chnrgo of trafllc, and W. S. Daslnger, passongor trafllc man. ngor. That Mr. Gray should make tho trip at that timo, In splto of tho fact that tho great railroad Btriko was Just boglnning, wub In Itsolf sufficient wnrrant of tho soriouB study bolng glvon to tho region. Mnny visits havo beon mado thoro by somo of. tho samo party and othor ofllelals slnco, nnd at presont Jir. Daslnger Is nt tho hoad of another party of hotel and ongl-noorlng ongl-noorlng exports who nro spondlng sevornl days in southern Utah. Included in tho party with Mr. Daslnger nro P. W. Gentsch suporln-tondont suporln-tondont of the hotols and dining far sorvico of tho Union Pacific systom, tho man whoso rocommondatlons will count for much as to tho location and equipment of hotels; D. R. Darr wator onglnoor, whoso problom is undoubtedly undoubt-edly to study tho ono very important featuro of hotol location in that roglon tho wator supply, and how It Is to bo furnished; J. P. Mack of Los AngoloB, assistant onglnoor assigned as-signed to tho Salt Lako Route; Goorgo E. Goodwin, chlof civil ongl noor, national parks sorvico, whoso approval and cooporatton will bo ro-qulrod ro-qulrod in all that may too dono in tho way of hotol construction at Zlon National park; R. 13. Gory chlof of lands, United States forest service, whoso approval will probably bo necessary for tho obtaining of hotol sites at both Codnr Droaks and at Dryco though at tho lattor placo stato lands aro also avallablo as a hotol slto; J. H. Riddlo," from tho ofllco of tho district forestor of this district nt Cedar City, and familiar with road construction work In that mountainous mountain-ous territory; Randall L. Jones, soc-rqtary soc-rqtary of tho Cedar City Commercial club, archltoct of tho hotol to bo taken ovor by tho Union Pacific, and Chauncoy G. Parry of Salt Lako and Cedar City, trafllc managor of the Zion National Park company. Leaving Codnr last Wednosday morning, by nutomobilo, tho party, aftor a drlvo of nibout flftoon miles, found thomselvos on tho top of tho omlnonco known as Codar mountain, whonco a downgrado platoau road loads to tho west rim of Zlon National Nation-al park. ThlB wonderland Is seldom vlsltod by outsiders, on account of Its difficulty of access. Tho party loft tho automobllos near Codar mountain, and took saddlo horsos and a wagon to tho west rim, about thlrty-flvo miles from Cedar. Thoro tho night was spent in open camp and, after making a study of tho wonderful area thoro and Its wator supply, tho travolors found trail down tho canyonwalls by way of a draw which brought thorn out in tho canyon of Njfrth creok, Which Is crossed by tho highway Into tho park not far from Virgin City. Thursday night was spont In Zlon National park, where a further study was mado of possibilities, and tho party returned to Codar City for Friday Fri-day night. Saturday night was spont at Cedar Breaks, at a hotol on tho rim, 10,400 foot abovo sea lovol, tho party making a Burvoy of possibilities thoro in tho way .of hotol sites and wator supply. Yostorday thoy pro-coodod pro-coodod ovor tho road now bolng built from Midway to Long valley, past Nava'jo lako and Duck springs, and J thence by forest road to Dryco canyon. can-yon. Tho return to Cedar City will bo mado today. Cedar City people nro planning to meet tho visitors tonight and tho I party will soparato tomorrow at j Lund, tho major portion coming to SalfLako. Two Millions for Hotels. A rough guess Is that tho hotol program pro-gram now practically decided upon, although tho details have not been arranged, ar-ranged, will moan an oxpendlturo by tho railroad intorosts of around f2,-000,000. f2,-000,000. Tho first stop will bo tho finishing, furnishing nnd operating of tho now, hotol at Cedar. This structuro struc-turo Is nil undor roof, and tho Interior In-terior is partly completed, Lack of fundB caused tho Codnr City men who undertook Its construction to halt their program, and it has been in Its prosont condition for sovoral months. Tho announcement that tho railway company will oporato this structuro gives an idea of tho standard of sorvico sor-vico to bo maintained throughout tbo tourist circuit which tho railroad will dovolop. So far as can bo loarnod no decision has beon reached as to tho exact location of tho othor hotols and It is Burmlsed thnt this will await 'tho report re-port of pio present investigation, which appears to havo beon tho most comploto In dotall of tho sovoral now mado. In tho moantlmo thoro is somo dlfforenco of1 opinion among residents of Cedar City and of othor points affected in southern Utah as to whether tho dovolopmont of tho upland systom of roads would bo advisable, ad-visable, with a hotol on tho rim of Zlon canyon, at an altitude of about 700Q foot; or whothor tho hotol sltQ thcro should bo on tho' floor of tho canyon, at an altltudo of about 4000 foot. Tho formor wJuld bo cooler In summor nnd tho necessary road program pro-gram would shorten tho dlstnnco materially between Ccdnr and Zlon, nnd between Zlonmnd Cedar Droaks or Dryco. It would also shorton tho prosont routo from Zlon National park to tho north rim of tho Grand canyon. Problem Twofold. On tho othor hand, it is argued, such a slto could bo used for only a short Btiinmor tourist season, and as soon ns tho fall rains nnd snows bognn tho Investment would bo tlod up until lato tho following spring, whon tho molsturo had left tho ground sufficiently suffici-ently to pormlt of travel. Wh6roas a hotol on tho floor of Zlon canyon national park could too utilized for a much longer tourist season, and should tho roads to tho park bo improved im-proved somewhat, could bo mado almost al-most an nil-year proposition. Tho problem Is ono on which any railroad men ns yet approached aro 'muto, and if any decision has boon roachod, which is vory doubtful, it 1 fc 1 H UU3 ilUt UUUU UllllUUUUUt With a good hotol at Cedar City, It Is at present contomplated that perhaps per-haps a loss protontloua structuro will bo required at Codnr Breaks. Somo accommodations will bo provided from tho stnrt for porsons doslrlng toi stay overnight, and tlfis can sbo Increased, In-creased, it Is pointed out, as trafllc may demand. Plans for development at Dryco appear to bo along about tho samo lines as thoso at Zlon canyon national park, with tho excoptlon that tho nature of tho canyon Itself makos a romslto practically tho only cholco. Points of Scenic Interest. Thoro nro, howovor, many points of sconic interest in tho vicinity of Dryco which ns yet havo not rocolved much attention. Thoso includo a natural brldgo of proportions and a natural cavp, as yot unoxplordd, but from which somo oxcocdlngly .beautiful .beauti-ful stalagmito and stalactlto spool, mens havo boon shown. Tho railroad has not yot soloctod Its terminal slto at Cedar City. ThiB is expected to bo within easy dlstanco of tho hotol, but it is indicated that tho price asked for tho ground originally mentioned is not la accord with tho Ideas of tho railroad ofllelals as to tho value of Cedar proporty. Application for a cortlflcato of con-vonlonco con-vonlonco nnd necessity to build tho branch from Lund to Cedar Was filed with tho interstato commorco commission com-mission nt Washington somo timo ago. In duo courso tho commission forwarded Its usual quostlonnnlro to bo filled In by Uio railroad." Thl.7 Ht complotod, and wa8 forward Washington. Tho S tho federal commission will " tho nppllcatlon quickly, and i, K favors tho construction of ihn J "BX by tho ra..road-on wh.d Po J, gW IsllttlodoubtastothoflnauW -tho branch lino should bo conJ 5-within 5-within reasonable time 7M |