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Show UTAH MAY HAVE A HEWRAILflOAD PURCHASE OF THE MOFFAT ROUTE AND COMPLETION OF TUNNEL PLANNED Financiers Contemplate Branch Into Unitah Basin; Provo is Proposed .Terminus of Road Los Angeles. Plans for the consolidation con-solidation of a half-dozen long dormant dor-mant railroad enterprises in California, Califor-nia, Utah, Arizona and Colorado toward to-ward the possible promotion of a new line which may utimatcly form an important link in a transcontinental system has been announced in Los Angeles. The new road, which is not yet incorporated in-corporated and for which the pro- inuii-is say mock win not. oe oiiereu to the public, is named the Colorado-Utah Colorado-Utah Pacific raiywav. It is dubbed by the promoters the "C. U. P." system and they have devis-ed a symbol sym-bol of a cup and saucer for it. Officers of its financial derart-mertt derart-mertt have been opened on the tenth floor of the Marsh-Stron building, Ninth and Spring streets, in Los Angeles, and in Denver and Salt Lake as well. Thos associated! with the promotion promo-tion include Judge John T. Pope, former attorney general of Utah; George Blair Sturgeon, former consulting con-sulting engineer, University of California; Cali-fornia; H. M. Giilam of Los Angeles; Arch L. Mitchell, former state corporate cor-porate n engineer of Oklahoma an. I once connected with General Goethah in the construction of the Panama canal; C. 15. Oliearn of the Noil Stationery company; I Sterling, formerly for-merly of the Gold Seal Refining company com-pany and Utah and eastern capitalists, capital-ists, wl.ose namer, according to the promoters, will not be made public until conferences now being conducted conduct-ed are concluded. As told by Mr. Gilliam, secretary of the temporary promotion organization, organi-zation, the ensemble follows: The proposed road will be in three divisions. The first calls for the purchase pur-chase outright of the Moffat route, for which promoters say an option has been obtained at a price of HJ cents on the apprni-cd dollar variation; vari-ation; the completion of the c i-struction i-struction of the now unfinished tunnel tun-nel from the Denver side of the mountains to n point near Ixemni-ling, Ixemni-ling, Colo., with the resultant abandonment aband-onment of twenty-three miles of the existing road over the mountains; and the straightening of the road into in-to its terminus at Craig, Colo, This will cVl for cxponditurs of $.".r.ij0. 0(10 for the purchase ol the road and an additional $1,000,00;) for the completion of the tunnel. The second division contemplates const rrction of a new line fro-n the Craig ternr'nus over th. Tampa platan pla-tan through the towns of Maybcl'c and I.ily. Colo., and tapping the Flk ( reek oil fields and t,' ice dropping into the gigantic and undeveloped Uintah basin of Utah, touching the towns of Jcnscu, Vernal, Taft, Roo cvcll, Myton, Midview and Du chesnc, and (hence via the SI raw-berry raw-berry river. A dozen undeveloped townailes have been loca'.cd on the way to Ilchcr City, Utah. Former Judrjo Dies I, os Angeles' 'i'hoiras K. Owen, president of the .Jerome .superior Copper company of Aii.ora and former for-mer probate judi.e nnd as; t'lnblyniall in Colorado, died Friday al his home in Alhan.hra, near bote, agedd VS. |