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Show State Body Will Join In Protest i Protest of the Utah public ser-jvice ser-jvice commission will be linked with I those of various Utah mining com-(panies com-(panies against abandonment of the Frisco branch of the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad company. Application for abandonment of the line was -previously dismissed without prejudice February 15, 1936; then the case was reopened again and the Union Pacific railroad rail-road made a party to it. Hearing on the matter will be conducted at the Hotel Utah October 26 at 11 a.m., when the public service commission com-mission will have a representative to enter formal protest against the application, or send a written protest. pro-test. Agreement to intervene in the case was reached Thursday in a meeting of the commission at the office of E. E. Corfman, chairman, with the Citizens' Rate association, S. B. Harmon of the Tintic Lead company and P. H. Hunt, manager of the King David Mining company. com-pany. The branch line was established in 1880 to handle ore from the San Francisco mining district to the Salt Lake valley smelters. Built originally by the Utah Central Railroad company, it was acquired" by the Union Pacific when it took over the Salt Lake, San Pedro and Los Angeles route. Approximately $100,000,000 worth of ore was taken out of the district up to 1920, according to Mr. Hunt. Recent developments in several mines of the district led to an organized effort to have the line retained. |