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Show THE CEDAR-LUND ROAD IS ASSURED The Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad rail-road applied to the interstate commerce com-merce commission recently for permission per-mission to build a ne wline of railroad rail-road between Lund and Cedar City, a distance of 32 miles. The line will connect with the main system of the Los Angeles company and will open iron mining territory. While it is true that the line con- necting Cedar City with the Salt Lake route at Lund will tap the vast iron deposits for which this county was named, E. E. Calvin, vice president pres-ident of the Union Pacific system, said recently that one of the chief reasons for building the road was to make the scenic attractions of the wonderland between southern Utah and the north rim of the Grand Can- yon more available. As soon as certificate of necessity and conveyance is granted, Mr. Cal- vin said, it is the present intention 'r to begin construction. Some time ago President Carl R. Gray, in company with a group of local men, made a tour of the scenic spots of this sec- don and, on his return, said he would recommend construction of a Cedar-Lund Cedar-Lund branch. For more than a score of years residents of southern Utah have tried to have this line built and have used the iron deposits as an argument. It was pointed out to the officials of the road recently that if scenic attrac-tions attrac-tions of this section 'of the country became available to the public and generally known, the line would be a. paying proposition on account or the added business over main lines of the road. President Gray said at the time of his visit that anything that added to the wealth of Utah could not fail to be of benefit to the Union Pacific system. |