Show EAST SOUTH WEST TO i MEET IN THE BASIN Surveys Headed In This 1 Direction From Denver Gallop and Salt Lake Lako-Bamberger Lako Interviews Interviews Inter Inter- views lews Moffat Interests It looks as If Denver and Salt Lake might Have have ave railroad representatives representatives representatives in here at the same time inthe Inthe in inthe the very near future A dispatch from Denver says a party of surveyors for tor the Santa Fe left that city for the basin Another dispatch from Gallop N. N M. M says surveyors for the Rock Island have started a temporary survey from that city from the southeast It will come in by way of San Juan and Grand counties i Governor Bamberger of Utah has i been In Denver Interviewing the I Moffat Interests with reference to I extending that road westward A A- Denver dispatch dated May 31 says We In Utah think we should meet Colorado half way in the connecting of the Moffat road and our state and we are ready to do so whenever plans are complete asserted Gor Simon Bamberger of Utah this afternoon at atthe atthe atthe the Bro Brown n hotel a few minutes after after af af- I af-I i ter his arrival here from Salt Lake I accompanied by Mrs Bamberger and I their son Julian M M. M Bamberger There Is a vast territory In the Uintah Uintah Uintah Uin- Uin tah basin and adjoining country which would become one of the most valuable sections of of our state If It were traversed by railroad Governor Gov Gov- Bamberger Damberger continued Th That Thatis That t is why I have come to Denver at this time The cold rainy weather today to today today to- to day has upset our plans but before I leaving the city I want t to talk with I Ithe the Phipps and Evans Interests In la regard to completion of the Moffatt road and bringing it Into our state I understand Senator Phipps Is one of the men most largely interested in the road I First Plan Piau Abandoned I i F It was our intention to go from Denver Denver over oyer the thel Moffatt road territory I on on n an inspection trip traveling by I automobile but the change in the weather will prevent that I wanted j to see the road and the country from this end I hope to see the Denver rl in the he road ri u interested Monday Monda I and had then start back home June home June 5 5 We j I jwill will start from Salt Lake on a trip I through the Uintah basin to look ji over the territory which we want to reach with the railroad I In the group which will make the II trip from Salt Lake next week there vill be twenty leading Utah financiers ers and business men mea with the governor governor governor gov gov- J and his son They will remain in the undeveloped country countr for most of the month mouth examining all of its Vet minutely I I Asked 1 if the Utah state govern- govern To C Correspondence Page Ei EAST T SOUTH WEST ST Continued from Page One ment merit or citizens had taken any native na- na active active ac ac- tive steps toward organizing a construction construction con construction con con- campaign for the connecting connectIng connecting connect connect- ing link Governor Bamberger Damberger said they had not but added We are ready to go ahead with the building II just as soon as we learn the road is feasible I came came here to find out what Colorado people expect to do Out there we dont don't think it is fair to ask you people to build the road right to our doorstep We think we ought to do half of the work our selves Financial Interests Ready I Financial Interests In Salt Lake and other Utah cities clUes are prepared to organize a building plan and begin begin begin be be- gin construction at once the governor governor governor gov gov- Intimated as soon as he makes J Ja a favorable report Though no its route has been chosen he tentative plan is to connect the Moffatt Moffatt Moffatt fatt road with the D. 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G at Soldier Soldier Soldier Sol Sol- dier summit Utah by extending It westward from Its present western terminal at Craig Colo Cole It also Is la possible e he that electric roads In which he is interested may maybe maybe maybe be found to be practicable as connecting connecting connecting con con- lines These are Utah lines linea which run In proximity to the country country country coun coun- try try which the extended road would t tap p. p There Ther Is still sUll about miles milea of road to be built to connect Salt Lake and the Moffat line the governor governor gov goy explained The territory In Utah alone which would benefit by bythe the he extended ro road d contains over half halfa a a million acres which are rich in coal oil gas forests agricultural lands Iron ron copper and other minerals Interest In Coal Fields I The governor evidenced special In Interest Interest interest In- In terest In the coal fields In Routt county A eA big desire In Utah his son interrupted Interrupted in- in is eis to secure a hard clean coal oal free from soot A large proportion proportion proportion tion of our own coal is sooty and the soot is a detriment to Salt Lake City They w were were re assured that Routt county coal is a high grade bituminous what we want said Mr Barn Bamberger berger Governor Bamberger said he was hopeful that Colorado will approve the bond issue for the completion of the James Peak tunnel which he un understood understood understood un- un would be voted on In he fall of 1920 Perhaps the people of or Denver will take the matter up themselves themselves themselves them them- selves and put the tunnel through he said I should like to see that done |