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Show TALK8 OF UINTAH ROAD. Provo, March 27. John M. Pope passed through Provo today on his way from Vernul to Salt Lake. Mr. Pope Is engagod in a big irrigation and power project on Greon rlvor by Al, which thousands of acres ot land In Wfc Utah and Colorado will bo irrigated. " Ho Is connected with a company , 1 which proposes to build a railroad 1 Into tho Uintah basin from this end, fj' The route has beon survoyod, and whllo Mr. Pope will not give detalli of the work nor names of thoao bb-soclated bb-soclated with him, ho saye work will be commenced this summer. Tho Importance ot the project for ' Utah is most apparent, as, according fe; to Mr. Pope, tho Donver road will bo completed far enough west by next fall to become an outlet for tho Uln- , tah country in the evont that there m is no road from tho west The com- .'Js pletion of the Denver road to the a basin will make the Uintah country a trade tributary to Denver, If there . g are so transportation facilities from the Salt Lake end, Mr. Pope aays. :S |