Show RAILROAD RUMBLINGS new route said to have been selected san pedro may rebuild and leave st george and pioche both out of the count here is how the railroad ie leporter porter for the tribune his the matter of the new route for the san pedro sized up from lund utah the cast or south side of the mormon range to moapa will in all probability be the new line of the salt lake route according acco to certain officially caIlY unofficial information received in salt lake this week this line nowhere shows apparent ly y over one and one half per cent grades in either direction is diee from heavy const construction rution coast is high and dry above all floods and is forty miles shorter than the proposed routes via pioche to the debt north side of the meadow valley wash over bennett or bristol passes the proposed route is the shortest route of all do possibly sibly shorter than the old one down down the wash it vill ft ill leive st george georee thirty miles to the south although in time a branch may be built into st george but not in the near future pioche will have it is said a branch running from probably Cr essline or bercegay BEr Bare celay elay but by just what route is not yet determined this will in all probability give Cal caliente ballente lente railroad connections via panaca and pioche engineer arthur meguire mcguire went west along alone the proposed route from lund into moana while engineers tilton and stradley went west by the ii ay of st george and the virgin river all met at moapa last monday n g now all three engineers are on their way east from moapa along mc eguires guires back track ohis it is understood will probably bathe be the ne v route from all ic counts it is far bette than the management expected to find anywhere general manager R E wells well is no now w in los angeles after inspecting the scene of the flood and is quoted as saying Nn nothing thing definite is known but we are daily expecting chief engner engineer tilton and d arthur meguire mcguire in with the reports of the line they have looked over tilton and mcguire both are looking at rights of way east of the present line and we have not considered the line through pioche there la is a branch line there now and that probably is all that will be built A modena correspondent writes the tribune as follows the railroad situation is still a subject for much speculation throughout dixie but appears to be jakine more inte form it is 13 reported that the cum ial club of pioche is 13 in of m cation from froin ex CA senator A clark which assures them that no event will pioche be left a railroad regardless of W wa in the main line may be bc and also advises that abrana vada i is likely to be decided engineer arthur 2 who went over the new route coma via the east side gives a le ie and somewhat enthusiast ii r t covering the route he is a to have discovered a very practical route along the top of a mountain ridge offering no obstacles and bringing the main line to a connection wenty twenty miles north of moapa near carp station he diverged westerly Ne sterly and fedt off the big biff mesa alesa lie he is slid to have found fine sti rines of good frood water elroi te while throns the main line for a short distance back into the Al edow villey drainage near oak sannes it is 13 at a point where the road may inay be properly pro pirly safe guarded this route is pr che illy as aa outlined in the TL abune last week and runs vi i jillson springs the distance from this point to st george can be cia down to filc miles it ih is that chief engineer tilton is IB returning aroa the st george section vi i jackson which aich color to the belief that a branch line from jackson springs may be considered that this is no idle speculation may be inferred when it is considered that the mileage inn im oving a change of the main line ocr 0 cr the new route including a branch road to st george and the uvada branch to pioche would not exceed the mileage ot the abandoned track |