Show UINTAH RAILWAY OFFICIALS VISIT UINTAH BASIN with already the uintah basin as the objective of two railroads with proposed extensions the basin may mai be the goal of 0 still a third that ol of the uintah Tair railway way with vernal as the objective point A delegation of 0 railway officials off from philadelphia and chicago traveling to mack colo in the private car washington of 13 C felton a director of the pennsylvania railroad and official of the uintah railway brought arthur W sewall president of the uintah charles W bayless charles H former vice president and general manager of the denver and rio grande western A L robinson frank seamons of 0 south america and E L riter alter all uintah railway and barber asphaltum company officials together with L C sprague vice president and general manager of oc mack colo superintendent john mcandrews of vernal hon thos W odonnell attorney tor for the company of vernal homer D ford manager ot of the rainbow gilsonite mines visited every section ol of the uintah basin on an inspection trip ot of their properties and railroad possibilities mr sprague met the party at denver and accompanied compa nied them here the trip ot of the uintah officials following so BO closely that ot of the denver and rio grande officials much to the basin railroad situation there are those who have declared for a long time that the uintah railway would be the first to enter the basin and that too with a broad guage road with a tunnel under the baxter pass no official statements were made by any of the group but the denver post in an article published when they learned of the intended visit of mr felton and the others had the following to say railroad men of denver heard the news of the proposed visit of the eastern railroad officials to the uintah basin with significant nods they characterized the basin with its square miles ot of virgin untapped territory as one of the most valuable pawns on the western railroad chessboard chess board applications tor for permission to construct two railroads into the uintah basin now are pending before the interstate commerce commission at washington D C one of the applications is by the denver deliver rio grande western and calls tor for the building of a mile extension to its main line westward from soldier summit utah the other Is by the salt lake city denver railway a re reorganization argan of the damberger bamberger interests ot of utah which asks permission to build a Tall railroad road from rom prow provo utah to craig colo to connect with the denver salt lake railroad the moffat road it if the visit of the eastern rall rail officials to the basin means that the uintah railway company is to become an applicant before the interstate t ter state commerce commission tor for still a third tall rail project into the uintah basin railroad men atre agreed saturday that colorado is in an enviable position regardless of which ot of the three railroads Is given permission to build the line Tail railroad road men pointed out that the rich agricultural products ot of the basin would have to be freighted through denver or pueblo colo to find an outlet to eastern markets extension of the rio grande western from soldier summit into the basin will cost it la is close to 6 million dollars J samuel pyeatt president of 0 ro grande western recently returned 11 from an inspection trip into the basin and characterized is as one of the most fertile undeveloped agricultural sections in the west in its project the rio grande western would have tho the backing of the missouri urt pacific and western pacific railroads which control it and which are regarded as financially able to car ryan enterprise ot of the size and kind to a successful conclusion cl it reports are correct that felton ot of the pennsylvania Is a member of 0 the delegation ot of Tail railroad road officials visiting in denver railroad men bel believed I 1 eved his presence in the party parly might indicate any project which tho the uintah interests may baa in view will receive the financial backing of a strong group of eastern railroad financiers |