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Show TRUCE CALLED IN R. R. EIGHT Differences Arising From Railroad Projects Aired By Board s.ur i.akf.. August 2F. a truce was called yesterday before the pui-lllc pui-lllc utilities commission between th Iron i 'ounty Hallway company and the Ixs Angeles A Salt Ljike Railroad I com pan) for th purpose of arranging the dispute between both compnn amicably. Hoth companies, the former a sub' sidiurv of the newly organised Columbia Colum-bia Steel corporation and the. latter a subsidiary of the l'nlon Paclfir iy tern, have announced ;dnns of constructing con-structing railroad from Lund. The Iron County cohipan) would tap the Icon county cool fields, over which the Columbia Co-lumbia S'.eel corporation has recently assumed control. The Fnlon 1'aeiflc line desires to connect liund with Cedar Ce-dar City, ns the gateway to the southern south-ern l.'tah scenic wonderland, and to b r . the Iron mines on the " The Iron County company filed Its application for u certificate of public convenience and necessity with th public utilities commission of I'tah some few weeks ago. and the mo for was set for hearing before that body yesterday, It filed a similar application appli-cation with the interstate commerce commission August H, The Salt Iike Route, as the railroad is called, until yesterda had made no filing with t Ii state ' nmnilklnn, but on August 17 It made a filing with the Interstate commerce commission Si Washington. The notification from .that commission, with a copy of the filing, reached th public utilities cotn-' cotn-' mission the day before the hearing on th iron County line's application. Testerday Ueorge II Smith, for 'he il'nion Pacific system, filed s protest to the Iron County line's application. : ii nd It was decided between attorneys 'for both interests represented thnt the I hearing should be continued until t i was ascertained whether there was a 'chance of both Interests getting to- jgether. and preventing further dela jln the matter of construction of the I road. no |