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Show Join In Protests To Abandonment Of Frisco Branch Charles A. Root, executive secretary sec-retary of the Utah Citizens Rate j association, together with repre-I repre-I sentatives of local mining interests, in-terests, were guests of the Milford J Lions club Wednesday noon at a I very fine chicken dinner served at I the Union Pacific dining room, at j which time considerable time was ! given to a discussion of the appli-; appli-; cation of the railroad to abandon the Frisco branch , line. The I speakers were unanimous in de-! de-! claring that, with excellent pros-! pros-! pects of early shipping of ore in large quantities, now was not the time for such abandonment as it would set the district back many ' years in the working of low j grade ore properties besides seri-: seri-: ously interfering with the movement move-ment of heavy timber and machinery machin-ery into the Frisco district. Present at the meeting, in addition addi-tion to Mr. Root, were K. G. Link, representing the Horn Silver and I affiliated companies; L. F. Block of the Frisco Silver-Lead company, j and D. E. Kirk of the Quadmetals I corporation, one of the newer de-I de-I velopers of the district. Preceding and following the Lions club meeting Mr. Root was shown over the area affected and also conferred with livestock and other interests with a view to assisting as-sisting in opposing the application. Selar S. Hutchings, assistant ecologist of the forest service, in 'charge of the Desert Range Ex-j Ex-j periment station, located 50 miles ' west of Milford, was also present 1 and extended an invitation to J Lions and others of this section to j join in the big two-day field tour ! of the work being done out west. ' The presidents of the University of Utah and the Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural college will be among those present, together with other prominent livestock, forest and scientific authorities of the west. |