Show MAY MEAN oA A RAilROAD FOR THE UINTAH BASIN Surveyors Sur Have Hu Ikea Been Working Over Ocr Two T Proposed I Routes One Oneia ia via Meeker and ami Other hy hJ 11 of Grand Junction That the campaign of extensions toT to T je e waged by the new management of the Colorado Midland is to be an ag ag- aggressive ag- ag one is shown by the spirited manner in which Mr Ir Carlton and his associates are already e entering into the he development not only of the road itself but of ot the industries which will prove rove a valuable source of income to the he road Already they are contemplating a pad pad of their own into Grand Junction Junction Junc- Junc tion ion eliminating the joint track agreement now in effect with the D R. R G G. and already two routes for such a new line are in contemplation One of oC these routes runs to the north from rom Meeker l and amt across the west to tap ap the Uintah country the other from rom New Casle via Collbran to Grand Junction tapping the rich agricultural agricultural agricultural ag ag- ag- ag and stock raising plateau country The latter route is said to tobe tobe tobe be greatly favored and already advanced ad ad- steps are known to have been taken aken for such a line Une Should toe line ine be routed via Meeker Grand Junction will be but little injured however low ever as the plans of Mr Carlton call for the complete development of the latent possibilities of the Grand valley and the surrounding territory News has also been received here hereto to o the effect that one of the first steps In the development of this section will be the construction construction construe tion ion at an early date of the line line Ine from Fruita on to Mack a distance distance dis- dis tance ance of oC some eight miles which will permit of oC the early and complete development development de of the products of oC the gilsonite gil- gil mines of oC that district All of this traffic will wili be routed via Grand Junction the Interurban line being reconstructed and used for the heavier traffic The line will then be he extended on Into the Uintah country and to the copper interests of the owners In In Utah tapping the richest agricultural and mining fields to be found in the entire west The new management will come into In in- In to formal possession of the road on May 31 As was announced In the News a week ago J. J J. J Cogan now general manager of the tho also by the Carlton interests Inter Interests Interests ests has been nam named l as the new general general general gen gen- eral and he will have charge of the rebuilding of the present pres pres- ent lines ent-lines lines and and- extension the extension of oC the lines into the new fields |