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Show RAILROAD THROUGH CURLEW VALLEY. The following news item comes to us under a Brigham City date line: "The farmers of Curlew valley are making another effort, It is said, to Interest the officials of the Southern Pacific company in building a railroad through the Curlew, valley by way of Blue Creek and Pocatello valleys. At a meeting recently in Howell, in Blue Creek valley, attended by officials offi-cials of tho railroad company and farmers and land owners in Curlew, Pocatello and Blue Creek valleys, tho officials offered to lay tho ties and rails on a proposed branch from Lam-po Lam-po station west of Blue Creek, to any given point the farmers desired, if the farmers would agree to furnish the land and build tho grade. It is said that the proposed route of the branch furnishes an easy grade and that the grading would be comparatively inexpensive. inex-pensive. The proposition is under consideration by the farmers, but it will be some little time before definite def-inite action is taken. Tho valleys through which the' proposed branch would pass are among the big grain producing sections in the state, and the output would easily be doubled it is believed, if a railroad were built." Eventually the surveyed route from Saline, on the Southern Pacific, north across the old line of the Southern Pacific at Monument and thence north through Curlew Valley, will be built. The road originally was planned as a cutoff for Union Pacific traffic to the northwest. Freight and passenger trains, instead of going by the Granger line in Wyoming, were to be sent through Ogden and west to Promontory Promon-tory Point and then north over the new road to Twin Falls, Ida. This route would have about the same mileage as that west from Granger through Pocatello, but tho grades would be more favorable. If the Union Pacific gets possession of the Central Pacific branch of tho Southern Pacific, Pa-cific, construction work on this proposed pro-posed road may not be long delayed. There iB'a great dry farming area In Curlew Valley, the development of which would be hastened, if the railroad rail-road were to be built, Ogden is interested in this prospective prospec-tive railroad construction as it would closely connect this city with tho heart of the grain region of Idaho. |