Show I b 4 i IJ hI 4 PLAN PI TO Tp I GOT OHr FIT A HAIJ RAILROAD OA Junction EU Engineer Thinks I Government Might ht Mi ht Help Many plans have been advanced to get a r railroad Int into the basin Sometimes Sometimes Some Seine times rumors have come that one was going to be built right away Now j I comes a plan that seems very j I ble With the necessity of building new training and detention camps facing the government the value of or orold old Fort Duchesne Is felt elt Now conies comes tho the plan pIau for the government I to stand expense of oC building a roadbed road bed hed into basin basalt and allowing ing the railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road to equip and operate I erate Such a aplan aplan plan plan plait would give the government a good fort tort or camp for prisoners and give ghe us a railroad If used for a de de- camp for German prisoners prisoners' they could be used to fine advantage in building ditches and improving things generally This too would help crop production and that is what the government wants Another Another Another An An- other thing tiling after afLer the Ule war many of the Germans German would likely want to stay star right here and send for their families fatuities The Uintah basin hasin would surely welcome German settlers In times of peace Follows Follows a a letter to the plan to sa save YO Fort Duchesne It has just occurred to me that you are in a position to get a railroad railroad rail rall- road now regardless of any railroad company or financial Interests Hol iy to training camps would not Ft Duchesne make a good one already built The cost of the camp campas as now constructed would almost build the road It would seem that the cost of grading borne by the government government government gov gov- and permit the Rio Grando Grande to place the steel and operate would save old Ft Duchesne Give Olve the government a partially completed camp and the Uintah basin a railroad at the same time Ft Duchesne to creek is very cheap construction I would think that concerted action on pan part of the basin and possibly Salt Lake City to be taken up with the war department before they get settled on something else else might result favorably favorably I to securing a a. road What do you think It would make a mighty good camp C. C L L. MITTON n I |