The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-06
Utah & Grand Canyon Railway
Company Files Articles of
Incorporation.
TO BUILD 140 MILES In
IRON AND WASHINGTON
Personnel Of Officers and Direc-
tOrate Indicates Eastern Cap !,
ital Behind Road.

Another big movement in the railroad
advancement OF southern Utah was made
Monday afternoon, when Incorporation
articles Of the Utah 6 Grand Canyon
Railroad company were filed with the
clerk OF this county. The capital stock
of the company Is s150.O0O divided into
shares of the value OF 500 each. The
articles state that the object Of the COM
pany is to build railroad from Lund,
Iron county. to St. George. Washington
county. a distance of eiGhty-fivo miles.
and from Marysvale to PanguItch dis
tance of ffty-Gve miles.
The Incorporation papers have an in
nocent look but the personnel OF the
officers indicates that big eastern capi-
tai is behind the survey that is known 10
be under progress III the southern part
OF this state
Frank a. Dudley OF Niagara Falls is
president; Frank II. Reed OF New York
! City. first vice president: Frank Harris
sell b. Merchant of New York. secretary
and treasurer; s. l.. Seldom and Thomas
G. Gillespie of New York and Victor E
Huntsacker of Salt Lake City, additional
directors.
II has been known for months that
| financiers were looking toward southern
| Utah as a good field for rairoads-that
The wonderful resources Of that part OF
show their possibilities. Said a we'll
known business man Monday night:
Southern Utah will have railroad
within two years unless the next session
OF the legislature enactS q measure that
VIII stop every dollar of investment in
this state for years to come. IL the next
session OF the Utah legislature is wise
It will pass no adverse railroad laws, and
above all things. will not create a rail-
road commission, the entire cost OF which
will be paid by the taxpayers. with little
or no return To the public. In this con-
nection l would like to read over the fol-
lowing. which l recently clipped from the
Gettysburg News of South Dakota. Mr..
Robinson is the superintendent of history
In that state and perhaps knowS as well
or little better than any other man in
The state the conditions. Here is the
clipping;
+" 'Doane Robinson is suggesting revo-
lutionary idea in regard to the treatment
OF South Dakota railroads. He says that
in View OF the fact that South Dakota
has Il large territory remote from rail-
roads, ana still larger territory with poor
idea TO ''lct down tho bars" and exempt
tho railroads from the annoyance OF ad-
verse legislation for a term Of years, at
least until they have finished the con-
struction- of a lot Of new mileage in the
state. He also suggests that all the new
railroad mileage should be exempted from
taxation for five years. 1t is easy to
imagine the storm OF protest that Mr..
taken seriously. At the same time they
contain great deal OF common sense.
In the popular clamor against corpora
tons the great debt the state owes 10
the railroads is too often lost sight OF,
The vast region west OF the river would
still he stoclman's paradise If the rail-
roads had not crossed the river The
people follow The railroad. The railroad
does not follow the people. There arc al
ways two sides 10 every question:. and
they have been handed unmerited jots.'
while | am not ready 10 go as far as
Mr.. Robinson, and | do not think that
any railroad company has ever asked
what he suggests. ] insist that the rail-
roads should be given IL chance in Utah
To develop the state and capital not he
driven away by fool legislation.