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Show ,' A Rio Grand Special rolled into Manti last Monday about noon containing General Superintendent Superintend-ent Welby and Vice President Peabody of til at road and their party. Escorted t 'i Agent Lindsay the visitors were diaveu through the streets, visited the tef&plesnd announced to this journal we pad a most delightful place. It was impossible to refrain from asking the officials what they were here for? and whaj p'nrpose they had in yiew that called them for a trip ovor the Sevier branch. "Why jon fee," said the gentleman addressed, "the a 1 absorbing point is that we must have our line extended ex-tended to the Pacific coast. We are going to dc it, and that right speedily. The qnestion is, from which part of onr lines shall the projected route be;rnn? "You see," and here the official reached out for a pipeful .of office smoking tobacco, only kept around to help lift type into the forms and for the office devil to scatter over the floor, "the line will be run from Salt Lake through Beep Creek country or from the end of this Sevier branch, down by JosopnCity, across the lower part of Nevada and on to the coast. Of course, Los Angeles is the point we intend to make. This will make this branch really on the main line, and while Salt Lake is doing all it can to have the road go by way of Deep . creek, this route will, in connection with onr eastern connecting lines, be the standard route from the coast to Chicago and New York by several hundred hun-dred miles. This is the main thing. If this route is continued from the end of this branch to the coast we can beat the Southeru, Union or Northern Pacific. Thitis all I can say at present. If anything new conies up v-ill let you know. There goes that whistle. Have got to go. Here's your pipe. Good by." It certainly looks as though the Ssvier branch will yet be a part of the main line. |