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Show RAILWAY FOR SOUTHERN UTAH. Sale of Kaibab Timber Makes Building Build-ing of Road Possible. Washington. Sale of a billion feet of timber from the Kaibab national forest in southern Utah and northern Arizona, with authority for the construction con-struction by the purchasers of 200 miles of railroad through one of the richest sections of the west, was approved ap-proved Monday by Secretary Houston Hous-ton of the department of agriculture. Bids will be received up to the middle mid-dle of June this year, then three years will be allowed the contractors for building the railway. The timber will be cut gradually over a period of twenty-five years. |