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Show Basin Railway Hearing Set Salt Lake City. A hearing will be held in Salt Lake in July 27 by the interstate commerce commission to consider the applications of the Salt Lake and Denver Railroad company and the Denver & Rio Grande Western West-ern railroad relative to building a railroad into the Uintah basin, according accord-ing to word received by Julian Bamberger Bam-berger of the Bamberger Electric. Both of these railroad companies have made application to build a road into the basin. The Salt Lake & Denver company, which is said to be backed by a group of Salt Lake and Utah men, headed by former governor gover-nor Simon Bamberger, is seeking permission to build a road from Salt Lake to Craig, Colo. The distance of this line will be about 300 miles. The Denver & Rio Grande Western is seeking permission to build a road from Soldier Summit to Vernal, a distance dis-tance of 131 miles. |