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Show I A NEW UTAH RAILROAD. Last week The Standard Examiner published a statement to the effect that the Union Pacific had decided to construct a branch lino from Delta to Fillmore a distance of 36 miles This morning the Salt Lake paper3 were awakened from their lethargy to j the extent of discovering that the news is true and worthy of a first page story. This is one of the most astounding newspaper "scoops" in the hiBtory of Utah It required the Salt Lake newspapers news-papers three days in which to sense the importance of the story and as i many days in which to allow the new? to percolate and soak in No part of Utah will show greater I improvements man Miiiara county, following the building of this railroad It is estimated there are 200 000 acres j of arable land which will be opened up by this line At present over three thousand acres of sugar beet land is under cultivation. This will bo the first railroad construction con-struction in Utah in a number of years and it is a forecast of coming pros perlty, indicating as it does the con i fidence of big railroad Interests in tin solid agricultural and business structure struc-ture of this state, and the brighter m outlook which this early has been dis closed to the men who are leader.- in j finance and Industry. |