| Show more railroad talk uintah reservation developments during the past week in the railroad situation leave little room for doubt that the union pacific will commence building into the basin in the spring in fact taken in connection with recent declarations cla of nf R S lovett chairman of the board of 0 directors of the U P that th the line was to be built would apparently not leave a remote suspicion dicion but that work will co commence in menee within the next few months hs thursday of last week john T pope who for the past three years has been connected with W 0 orem and associate in the uintah bisin basin properties and also in their employ received telephone word to meet 1 a party of railroad lail road engineers at rock hills forty five miles west of duchesne the members of the party were carl stradley chief engineer of the oregon short line A mcguire chief engineer of the salt lake and san pedro route W it R Armi armstrong trong general maniger and chief engineer of the orem lines the fact of these three representatives of separate interests traveling together occasioned no surprise as it is to well known that the most friendly relations and traffic agreements i exist among the three companies it will be remembered that in a recent interview senator dark clark stated that his road would bo be interested in the tho uintah basin line and that it shortly bo be built mr interest in ih the basin has been patent for years of tha th three in the party mr stradley vis aa the most familiar with the basin having pent spent the greater part of the past two summers on preliminary engineering work between duchesne and provo from mr popo pope the record learns that each engineer will report favo ably concerning the feasibility of a route into this section while it will be the boards of directors which will decide the matter each engineer of the three road roads is of the opinion that will commence in the spring the arty spent friday night pt duchesne and the following three days were consumed ulong along portions of the projected route between here and vernal dul D chenne record dec 13 1916 A mask ball will bo be given at the city hall tuesday evening dec 28 everything points to a grand success for this affair the salt lake costume co will ho e here aitu a great variety of costumes for the time of your life town hall dance |
