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Show Provo May Get Moffat Railroad Mount Streeter mines, the town organized organ-ized by M. T. Streeter, president of. the company that proposes to build ' the new railroad. ' The town has its support from the great semi-anthracite coal mines operated oper-ated by the Axial Basin Development company. The articles of incorporation, incorpora-tion, filed with the secretary of state March 26, name as incorporators Mr. Streeter, whose residence is given as i Moffat county; Oscar J. Lambiotte, 841 Washington street; Walter Hamilton, Hamil-ton, Argonaut hotel; Arthur A. Dillon, 841 Washington street, and Warren B. Mulford, 1243 Adams street, all of Denver. Den-ver. The company la capitalized for $1,600,000, hi 10,000 shares of $100 each. The seven directors include th incorporators named and John . B. O'Hearne and Lester H. Friend. The Survey of the New Road Runs From Craig, Colo., to Provo. Contracts have been let for the con-strultion con-strultion of a thirty-mile piece of railroad rail-road which, it Is expected, will eventually even-tually link Colorado and Utah. It is to be built by the Mount Streeter Railroad Rail-road company, which will operate out of Craig, the present terminus of the Moffat road, to the Utah state line. This link will eventually connect Denver Den-ver and Salt Lake.' The survey for the new Jlne turns south at Craig and goes -to Mount Streeter, thirty miles, then to Meeker, where it follows the course of the White river to the Utah state line, passing through Rangely. The Utah part of the line, it is believed, will proceed from Provo by way of Duchesne, along the valley of the Strawberry river and thence by way of Ouray, Utah, to the Colorado state line, a distance in Utah of approximately 200 miles, ' closely approaching the number of miles to be built in Colorado. Colo-rado. The survey for the Mount Streeter railroad is upward of sixty miles south of the Moffat survey, which passed through the Uintah . valley, entering Salt Lake from' the north, instead of from the south, as proposed in the new line. The first thirty miles, contracts for the construction of which .have been let, will take the road to the |