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Show v NEW RAILROAD FOR SOUTHERN UTAH Articles of incorporation have been filed at Provo by the Salt Lake, Fillmore & Kanosh Railroad Co., with capital stock of $500,000. The object of the incorporation is to build a railroad from Lynndyl on the L. A. & S. L. and Utah railroad southeasterly by way of Holden, Fillmore and Meadow to Kanosh, a : distance of fifty miles. The following are the directors and officers: George W. Craig, pres-, pres-, ident; T. D. Kimball, vice-president; Alva Nelson, treasurer; W. S. Mc- Cornick, G. J. Carpenter, Geo. E. Robison, W. L. Biersach. A. V. Rob- ison is the secretary, j Surveyors have already establish-t establish-t ed the grade south from Lynndyl and construction work is expected to begin May 1. The company is fully j financed and it is the intention to j have the road in operation in time j to move this year's crops from the j large farming district through which it passes. The road will be a stand-i stand-i ard gauge, single track steam road, j It passes through a rich agricul-l agricul-l turl country much of which is un-I un-I developed, but for which irrigation j facilities are now being provided by f flowing wells and otherwise. The I Sevier Land & Water Company will j furnish water for 30.000 acres and t residents of Deseret have bought 6.000 acres of this land, which will j be brought under cultivation this j j spring and a total of about 100,000 i j acres of new land of excellent qual-iiiiy qual-iiiiy is expected to he farmed within J the next two years in addition to the i I large acreage which has been cultl-, cultl-, , vaied for years. A lugar factory la assured for 1919, and it is fully expected ex-pected that other sugar factories will be built. |
