The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-08
TWO RAILROADS
FOR THE SOUTH
Gratifying News Comes in
Orders to File $25, 600, 900
Mortgage.
WILL DEVELOP TERRITORY
RICH AS ANY IN WORLD
One Line TO Tap Forests Con-
tanning Four Billicn Feet
of Timber.

Southern Utah is assured two new
railroads. Work on both roads will
begin within the next two months.
One of the lines vii! run from Marys-
vale, Piute county. the southern end
Of the Denver & Rio Grande in this
state, through Grand and Kane coun.
ties into the Grand canyon of the
Colorado. 1t will also tap the forests
in southern Utah and northern Arizona
that are said by government experts
90 contain more than 4,000,O00,0OO
feet of lumber awaiting n market.
The second line will run from Lund
on the Salt Lake Route through Iron
and Washington counties on to south
eastern Nevada to Searchlight, where
IL viii connect with the Santa Fe.
The absolute assurance of the build"
ing of these two new lines came Tues
day, when instructions were received
from New York to file first mort
gage bond in Parowan, the county
seat of Iron county. for S25,0O0,00O.
last night and should be fled in that
town carly today. The company that
files this mortgage bond is the Utah
& Grand Canyon Railroad company,
which company has taken over all of
the holdings OF the Utah 4 Southern.
including the surveys and right f-way.
Early last December Frank \, Dud
ley. president of the Utah & South
orn, was in Salt Lake. At that time
Mr.. Dudley said he expected that work
on the two new roads would begin
early this year.
The first official Information of the
course the company had decided upon
came Tuesday afternoon to II. {. Ed
wards. local counsel for the company.
1t was so direct that for a moment
Nj Edwa.ds was staggered. He was
instructed TO ile 6rst mortgage for
a bond issue of S@5,oO0-00O for the
building of the two new lines
''The instructions which ] have re.
ceiVed mean that two new railroad
lines are TO be built in southern Utah,
said Mr. Edwards. 81 can state au-
thoritativcIy that work on one or
both of the lines Will begin within the
next two months. The people who are
behind this project have ample capital
to carry it through.
When informed of the plans of the
Utah & Grand Canyon company last
night State Senator K. NJ. Sevy said
This is the best possible news. The
building OF one or both of these lines
means the opening up of section OF
this state that few people know any
thing about. If the lines are built
there will be 10000 people settle in
southern Utah within the next FIVE
wears There will be such a tonnage
from the iron and coal mines that 1t
will keep the roads extremely busy to
handle the traffic If they run branch
line into the oil fields Of San Juan
county it viii mean much for tins
state. From an authoritative source
] am informed that at the point on the
=
TO reach the scenery is so grand that
all other points in the famous canyon
sink into insignificance.
State Senator Henry w. Lunt of
Cedar City. Iron county, said; 1T is
glorious news. The new road will
mean so much 10 southern Utah that |
am afraid to tell at least a part of the
truth, lest some people might think |
was not holding strictly TO that com
resources and possibilities of southern
Utah have not even been scratched
yet.
Representative David II. Morris was
tine happiest man in the state Tuesday
night. In season and out of season
Iir Morris has been working for a
railroad 20 Washington county.
elf the information which The
Tribune has is correct il will mean SO
much for the southern part of the state
of Utah that no one can tell the end,
he said ''lf we can have railroad
into Washington county we can com
pete with southern California in early
Vegetables and fruits, and with a rail
road we can get our products on the
Salt Lake and eastern markets quicker
than the growers in California.
Said State Senator g. a. Iverson:
"It is good news, so good / do not
think you people in the northern or
central part of the state understand it.
If these two new railroad lines are
built it will mean much for the south
ern part of the state y