Show RACE TO BUILD R R jn in railroad and financial circles the rumor regarding the building of i a branch line into the uintah basin are as rife and varied these days as they ar are e around the city arid and county build ing reg regarding arding the policy of the incoming administration on one well informed railroad man yesterday said the one one railroad in utah that has the money to build the extension is the union pacific and everyone knows it it is an open secret that the heads of the rail road are now deliberating on the best grades to follow and at what point the main line should be tapped one report says that the idea of buil building dirig from the main line at sutta wyoming has not yet been abandoned another insists that it has still another L says that the union pa civics best point would be to branch off from coalville Co alville or park city yet another is that the union pacific might buy the D 81 R G branch from salt lake to park city it is known that silt salt lake and ogden business men are watching with eager eyes the settlement of this point A prominent business man just in from roosevelt said to a 3 deseret news representative yesterday it looks like the union pacific and D R G may yet enter into a race to see which will brea kinto our country first we know that the union pacific pacific has the money but what is is puzzling us is the fact that the D R G corps of surveyors and engineers are still on the job and its work is of a more permanent 11 and thorough charac cliar acter terl than any other it is only 6 60 0 miles from soldier summit to duchesne and we hear a great deal of talk in our coun country regarding a prefer preference nee fo for that route we are full of hope ope that at oil one line or the other t this is ti time e means business we e hear ear but little of the extension of liem lie M r fat fal ait line ne and ant see seem in t to 0 be e a much in the air as ev ever e r it union pacific officio officials a is a are noncommittal pona nona on this matter in fact decline to say anything for publication li general manager apperson of the utah lines of the denver deliver rio grande is in new york and local subordinate officials say that all information on this topic must come from general officers of the company deseret news |