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Show A NEW RAILROAD In w riling of the recent incorporation of the Provo & Logan Railroad Co , mentioned In the last Issue of Tun UiH'tniMCAN.the Ogden Standard says that Hon. David Kccles, president ot the above company and or the Ogden Rapid Transit Co. as well, is pushing the extension or the latter to the mouth or the canyon. In reference to Loth roads that paper continues: "Since the Incorporation or the Provo Si Idaho railway, moro slgnltlc a nee- has been attached to the can) on line. Piesldent Kccles, or the Transit companj and thenewcompany, stated that a line from Provo to Idaho would bo built, despite the Interurban line that now seems assured, with head-quartets head-quartets at Salt Lake. To Insuro freight and passenger tralllc, It Is Imperative Im-perative that from the capital to this city a railroad lino be built to Include the majority of towns lying between the two points. This would necessitate neces-sitate the, paralleling of the Bamberg-ei's Bamberg-ei's road J'o Idaho, one of the nearest and best routes Is through Ogden cam on, which ract has been dlseoveied bj the Tianslt company, and, while no dell-nlto dell-nlto statement would bo made by or-tlclals, or-tlclals, there Isa probability that the canjon extension will bo part or tlus Idaho line." The intention or the incorporators is to build a road rrom Provo to Logan Lo-gan through Utah, Salt Lake, Webber, Box Elder and Cacho counties The road will be. propelled by steam, electricity or other convenient motive power. The capital stock is $200,000,. divided Into shares of the par value or $100. Olllcers and directors aro Da Id Kccles, president; Mathew S. Browning, Brown-ing, vice president: Hiram II. Spenser, treasurer; Charles II. Klrchner, secretary. secre-tary. These together with Henry II. Ilolapp, Nels 0. Fljgare and Robert S- Joyce constitute the board or directors |