The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-08
FINE OUTLOOK
FOR RAILROAD
Now Confidently Expected That
Line viii Be Built i'm South
western Utah.
WOULD OPEN LARGE AREA
OF RICHEST OF LAND
Surveys Have Been Completed
and Work Is Likely to Be-
gin at Once.

That the long talked of railroad spur
from Lund, on the salt Lake Route,
to ST. George via Cedar City, will soon
become a reality, touching score or
more of thriving towns along course
100 miles in length and giving direct
access to what is conceded to be one
of the richest sections of the state,
seems apparent both from authentic re
ports that have circulated and the
statements Of John Parry, real estate
and mining man of Cedar City, former
member of the legislature and 3
prominent Democrat, who is now in the
city
Mr.. Parry SAYS that The project is be"
ing handled by White 4 Sons of New
York, who are promoting similar under,
takings throughout the country, and
who have actually begun activities
that arc confidently expected TO result
in giving southwestern utah much
said yesterday:
"Nearly twenty years ago the prom
ising soil and resources OF that sec
tion bounded by the Escalante desert.
the Parowan range, the Virgin river
and the Dixie national forest, called
forth the attention of no less Il man
than George Gould of the Denver y
Rio Grande system, who, | am conn
dent, planned at one day TO construct
line that would include the Rush
Lake valley and surrounding territory,
With the growth of that section and
increased settlement, there has sprung
up Il community that needed only such
line vastly to benefit itself and the
stale alike.
Are Getting Rights of-Way.
= 4. n
New York have been securing fran
chises and rights-of way through their
representatives, The ground and terri
tory were carefully inspected two years
ago. following which survey work along
the proposed course was taken up
This work has been in charge of Mr..
Dudley, representing White & Sons,
and has nov been completed from lund
to point six miles over the Washing
ton county line on The north, covering
fifty Ave miles of grading and survey,
ing and touching towns between Lund
and that point by way Of Cedar City.
Within a few weeks this preliminary
work will have been completed and
the construction of the road will fol.
low.
"The spur line will pass through the
Iron mountains at Iron Mountain Gap
which divides two mountains of solid
iron ore. and Will touch that section
where exist thousands of acres of
patented coal lands and rich timber
fields, Besides an abundance of iron,
timber, building rock of the greystonc
type, coal. gypsum and shale, the terri
tory sbounds in splendid grazing lands
and agricultural tracts, both for dry
farming and irrigation projects.
Large Tracts Available.
Mr., Parry also said that although
most of the land was privately owned
there were large tracts open for settle
ment. either through the enlarged
homestead act or that might be had al
nominal sum He declared that
the proposed line would pass through d
community where the combined re
sources could rot be equalled in the
west, giving the st. George district q
direct line 80 the markets of central
and northern Utah.
OF especial significance in connection
with the proposed spur is the visit tc
that section of Professor Lewis S. Mer
rill of the state agricultural depart
ment, Douglas White of the Salt Lake
Route. and others who are now eli route
from Modena to ST. George by auto II
is reported that these officials are max
ing an expert analysis of the sol
and careful inspection of future pos
sibilities In the growing southwestern
section. 1T has been hinted that th'