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Show i SOU UTAH Southern Utah is assured two new raihoads Work on both roads will begin within the next two months. One of the lines will run from Marys-vitle, Marys-vitle, Piute couutythe southern end of the Denver & Rio Grande In this state, through Graud and Kane coun- ties into the Grand canyon of tho Colorado It will also tap the forests i In southern UtalinVunortheru Arizona j that are said by government experts i to contain more than 4,000.000.000 feet of lumber awaiting a market The second line will run from Lund on the Salt Lake Route through Iron and Washington counties on to southeastern south-eastern Nevada to Searchlight, where it will connect with the Santa Fe The absolute assurance of tho building build-ing of these two now lines came Tues-da. Tues-da. when InstiuctionB woie recehed from New York to file a" llrst mortgage mort-gage bond In 'Parownn. the county sent of Iron county, for $2,000,000. The companj that files this mortgage bond is the Utah & Grande Canyon Railroad companj', which company has taken over all of the holdings of the Utah & Southern Including the surveys and rlght-ofwav Early last December Frank A. Dud-Icy, Dud-Icy, president of the Utah & Southern, South-ern, was in Salt LaV.c At that time. Mr Dudley said ho expected that wprk on the two new roads would begin early this year. Tho first official information of tho course the company had decided upon came Tuesday afternoon to II C. Edwards, Ed-wards, counsel for the company. It was so direct that for a moment Mr Edwaids was staggered lie wa Instructed In-structed to file a first mortgage for a bond Issue of $125,000,000 for tho building build-ing of the two new lines "The instructions which I have received re-ceived mean that two new railroad lines are to be built in southern Utah, ' said Mr. Edwaids. "I can state au-thorltatlcly au-thorltatlcly that wot1- on one or both of the lines will besin within th next two morfths. The people who are behind this project have ample capital to carry it through " |