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Show ITU ROAD TO COSTS WIILUON Former Governor Teils of Plans to Build New Railroad SALT I.AKE. Jan. 6. Cost of the proposed Salt Lake and Denver rail-, roud, which former Governor Simon i'.amb.-rger will build into the I'inta basin will reach $3,000,000. according Mo an announcement made yesterday.) I Preliminary surveys of the route havoi i been completed and maps bxsed there-Ion there-Ion filed with the federal government.' ps required because of the crossing Of the public domain. Guest of honor at lost night s meeting meet-ing of the Suit Lake Rotary club, th.- 'former chief executive of the state I told of having but yesterday afternoon j approved and attached hlsstgnatur. to (the maps of the preliminary Kiirvev. i Introduced as a private citizen, the man who but a few- davs Since Quitted the state house declared that ho had I Just begun to serve tho people of Utah, and that the Immediate ambition of his life Is ti s.e the road to Flnta com-, Ipleted. The survey, he said, calls for construction of a road -00 miles in I ! length, t eaching Into the Rangely oil I fields. Some thirty mile.-? east of Wat-j son, and twentv miles into the state of Colorado. Leaving Sprlngvllle, whore then v. in be available through rail connections connec-tions with Ihe 'Denver & Rio Grande! railroad, th Salt Lake Route and the Orem llnea, the route of Governor Bamberger's road will g up Cobble Creek- canyon and Diamond Fork In I'tah crtunty to the divide u Squaw jv-,rvrv .siiniiiiK, men noun 1114 rur.ivv r-, r-, berry reservoir lit Duchesne county.' Thence the Mm- goes through the Pll b agricultural section of the I'inta basin to the Green river, and a rosy tnat important im-portant stream up the White river to I the Coloradb-UtsTb line. Aside from serving the alreadv well Settled regions of Utah county.' the; road goes up through the mountains; jof tho southern part of Wasatch conn-! ty to serve the atockgrowera, dry farm-. ers aud other hardy agri ulturtsts. The) opportunities for tho development of the deposits of hydrocarbon minerals; will also be presented when the transportation trans-portation of the road is ready for service. ser-vice. In Duchesne and Uinta counties the new railroad will find the heaviest) traffic, wealth of raw materials that have been but waiting the coming of transportation to open their store-, houses of riches to the exploitation of capital anxious and ready to develop I them. 1 or |