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Show line refuses to make any traffic agreement which might interfere with the interchange of traffic with the Salt Lake Route, of whose stock the Union Pacific owns 40 per cent. The Orem interests also have about concluded the sale of a bond issue of $400,(100, which it is proposed to use in the construction con-struction of the line from Spanish Span-ish Fork to Payson just as soon as the line now building from Springville to Spanish 'Fork is completed. The new section of road will cost about $50,000 a mile and it is expected to be completed early in the spring. There is a report that the road intends to issue $2,000,000 more in bonds to extend the line south of Payson into the rich agricultural territory in Iron county and perhaps to Washington Washing-ton county and tap the Dixie country. Herald Republican. Dixie After Railroad Negotiations are under way between be-tween W. C. Orem, representing the Orem line, and traffic officials of the Union Pacific system at Chicago looking toward a traffic agreement between the Union Pacific system and the Orem line for the interchange of passengers pas-sengers and freight at Salt Lake for and from points on the Orem line in Utah and Salt Lake counties. coun-ties. Representatives of the Orem line have been in conference confer-ence with the Union Pacific officials offic-ials in Omaha and Chicago off and on for three months, and while no definite answer has been given the Orem interest as to what the Union Pacific will do, it is understood the steam- |
