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Show IadTeIiiio ! vernal sought I UINTAH BASIN LINE FROM SOL-j SOL-j DIER SUMMIT IS THE LATEST j PROPOSAL j i One Hundred Thirty-one Miles of Road Building Would be Necessary Neces-sary to Tap Thousands of Fertile Acres Washington Two projects for :x-tensive :x-tensive railroad construction in the west have been laid before the interstate in-terstate commerce commission. The Denver & Rio Grande Western West-ern asked authority to build Into the Uinta basin, Utah, by carrying a branch 131 miles from Soldier Summit, Sum-mit, Utah. There nil? approximately 750.000 acres ot tillable land in the j territory which the branch would reach, the application declared. The second application, though filed fil-ed under the name of the Fort Worth & Denver South Plains, indicated that the Colorado & Southern system intends in-tends to provide about 190 new miles of the line for its system in Texas. The Fort Worth company, which is a subsidiary of the Colorado, formerly former-ly asked permission to build from Carey to Plainview, with branches extending to Silverton and Lubbock all points in Texas. No estimates of cost were filed on either project. Denver. Construction of the proposed pro-posed branch line from Soldier Summit, Sum-mit, Utah, into the Uinta basin by the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad would involve expenditure of approximately $7,000,000, J. S. Pyeatt, president of the system said here. Preliminary surveys have been completed and material is being held in readiness for actual construction pending the action of the. interstate commerce commission in granting authority au-thority for the branch line, Mr. Pyeatt Pye-att said. The line would terminate at Vernal, Ver-nal, Utah. A maximum grade of 2 per cent is provided for in preliminary surveys, the executive declared. |