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Show 'Plan To Contest : I Line Abandonment i j Ernest D. Salm, executive sacre-! sacre-! tary of the Utah Citizens Rate asso- i 'ciation, met with a group of local men Friday afternoon in connection i with the application of the Los Angeles An-geles and Salt Lake Railroad company com-pany to abandon the Milford-New-house branch line of the company. 1 As the executive officer of the association, asso-ciation, Mr. Salm previously had' been authorized by the association directors direc-tors to enter into the protest as the representative of local mining and business interests and in behalf of the Milford Lions club. As a result, the interstate commerce commission, with whom the application for abandonment aban-donment was filed, has set a hearing to be held before the Utah public utilities commission on January 9, 1 1935, at 10 o'clock a.m. Mr. Salm had already assembled some data regarding the matter and it was with a view to getting additional addi-tional information and contacting local people that he came to Milford. Aside from the mining business, which has been at more or less of a standstill the last few years by comparison com-parison with previous activities, it was shown that the branch line is used extensively for incoming and outgoing sheep hauls and the hauling of wool and water; while, with the renewal of mining activities generally gener-ally and the imminence of a big strike at the King David mine, the branch line, left as is,, will soon again come into its own as. a heavy carrier. S. B. Harman, secretary of the j Tintic Lead company, was present , from Salt Lake and introduced f ig- ! ures showing that, . for" the years 1928-29-30 and up to July 31 of 1931,. that company had paid a total of $21,344.14 as incoming freight charges charg-es on supplies, etc., while, for the same period of time, a total of $73,- 1 303.45 had been paid as freight charges on shipments originating on the 'branch line. Present at the meeting, in addition to Mr. Salm and Mr. Harman, were K. G. Link, mine superintendent for the Tintic Lead company; State Senator George Jefferson, Mayor and County Commissioner O. F. Hubbell; J. C. Smith, cashier of the Milford State bank; O. C. Koch, president of the Milford Lions club; and David S. Williams, secretary of the club. |