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Show STEEL COMPANY 10 HAVERAILRQAD COAL AND IRON RE8OURCE8 OP UTAH WILL BE DEVELOPED BY NEW ORGANIZATION Branch to Coal Fields Is First Move In Starting Gigantic .ndustry In Mining Fields of Utah Salt Lake. Kvldenco that plans of tho Columbia Steol corporation to develop de-velop coal and Iron resourcos of Utah are actually under way was given Friday by organizers of the Carbon County Ilallroad company. Articles of Incorporation will bo filed with the secretary of state soon. L. F. Bains, ono of Uie Incorporators of the road, nnnouncod that bids on construction contracts are now befn'g rccolved. Thd same locnl men who are associated with Pacific coaat capitalists cap-italists in organization of the Columbia Colum-bia Stoel corporation constitute Uio officers nnd board of directors of tho railway company. A, C. Kills, Jr.,.nttorneyfor the company, com-pany, explained hat it waa necessary to organize a separate rdllrdad company, com-pany, as right of way over public domain do-main as well as stato land can only bo' obtained by a common carrtor. The Carbon County Railroaa company com-pany Is Incorporated for $000,000 ior tho purpose of building from a point on the Donver'&TRlo Grande Western rallroud believed undorlnld wttn ,coaf rcently acquired from tho Utah Coal & Coko company, a short longtli of the road engineers estimate that tho total cost will be In tho neighborhood of $500,000 on account of the mountainous mountain-ous country which It will traverse and tho character of construction deslrod. The road will cross-soven canyons und be built on solid ground without! bridges or trestlo in order to guard against uamago in caso of labor or other trouble. This plan will mako a safe pormanont road for noavy traffic traf-fic but, enormaustcutsiand fills necessary neces-sary will make tho original cost Tor grading avorage more tnnn y90,-' 000 per mile. Tho road will bo protected pro-tected from floods by moro man so, concrete culverts, according to specifications. specifi-cations. Officers of the corporttons are L. F. Rains, prosldcnt; A. U. Ellis, jr., vice presldont; L. F. Adam m secretary. secre-tary. Thope with W. W. Armstrong and Duncan VacVIchle ' constitute the board of directors. By the articles of Incorporation the .company Is also nuthorlzod to main, tain and operate oloctrlc and other power plants and transmission lines for transmission of powor light, nnd heat and the distribution and salo thereof. Interests flnnnclng the railroad and the Columbia Steel corporation are said to be identical, with Uio exception excep-tion of directors' shares, Uio road will be owned by tho stool company, It Is Indicated. |