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Show ' ; : : ' , , . . . ' " ' - -" ' ' " ' -.... ' I ' " ' 1 ' . , " : ? . . .. v. . - - - . . . - - -- ' -t" - 4 - ' . - Harriman Interests May Build a Shorter Line From Den- - ver to Block Moffat; Big Railway Plans. ' -y-.With George J. Gould, David H. Moffat and the Western Pacific, Pa-cific, Eastern Wabash and Denver, Northwestern & Pacific railroad interests arrayed on one side behind young James H. Hyde, and E. H. Harriman, A. J. Cassatt, Henry C. 'Trick and the Southern Pa-i Pa-i cific-Pennsylrania forces, on the other, the most gigantic financial SV&tle in all history, with the f 480,000,000 of the Equitable Life- Assurance As-surance society as the prize for the victor, is being waged in the tae-' tae-' tropolis with its skirmish lines covering the entire Nation. ' ' '. ' ' Victory for the Gould-Moffat-Hyde army will mean the making easy of the completion of the Gould system to both the Pacific and Atlantic seaboards, and the speedy construction of the Moffat road. Defeat for them will not spell the destruction of vast ambitious . plans; but it will mean that the financial difficulties to be overcome will be enormous, and it may mean indefinite delays for both the ( Moffat' and "the Gould lines. . ;f ., , . '. ' - . Young Hyde seems to be master of the situation at present, but j .the narriman-Cassatt-Frick combination is made up of master of ; financLil maiieoyering, ani-no one in Wall-street pretends to fore P cast the outcome. . " - t.- 'S er done any work on this proposed line and that the right of way was forfeited for-feited years ago. HARRIMAN PLANS' TO BUILD RIVAL UNE TO SALT LAKE CITY v (Special to The Telegram.) DENVER, Colo., June 6. E. H. Harriman Har-riman of the Union Pacific is believed to be making good his threat to Invade .Routt county in opposition, tothe Moffat Mof-fat road.' . . ' ' The- construction of a road south from the main line In Wyoming to Encampment En-campment is about to begin. E. K.. Hum, general manager of the . Penn-Wyomlng Penn-Wyomlng Mining company, states that the Union Pacific has officially announced an-nounced Its Intention of building a , railroad from Fort Steele to Encampment, Encamp-ment, a distance of forty-five miles. Fort Steele is near Walcott and recently re-cently the Union PacISc threatened to build from Walcott to Steamboat Springs unless D. H. Moffat gave up the projected short line" from Denver to Salt Lake City. It (s now believed he Is making good the threat ' A Competing Line. " ' . There is no doubt that the Moffat road will hurt the Union Pacifto as Foon as tt reaches Hot Sulphur Springs. Cattle shipments from , Middle and North parks that were formerly made over the Union Pacific by driving cat-ile cat-ile from Colorado ranges to, Walcott, Wyo., will be turned over to the Mof-fta Mof-fta road at Hot -Sulphur and intermediate interme-diate points. This will mean thousands of dollars annual loss to the Union Pacific Pa-cific if it cannot Invade the territory of the Moffat road. For some time It has been known that Harriman was preparing to enter i the northwestern part of the State. A report from Encampment, Wyo., says there are already several miles- of grades existing along the route between Fort Steele and Encampment. Many industries are proposed between Fort. Steele and Steamboat Springs because of the threat made by the Union Pacific Pa-cific to build a Line between those points. , . . May Build to Utah. '-. ( The Union Pacific is expected to build a shorter line between Denver and Salt Lake City, so as to compete with the Moffat short line or with any . short line the Denver & Rio Grande may establish. es-tablish. The Union Pacific will probably prob-ably follow the surveys of the old Colorado, Colo-rado, Wyoming & Idaho railway througlwT'ort Collins and North park. It will then cut through Routt county, connect with the branch from Fort Steele, and will take much of the traffic traf-fic Xhat would otherwise go to the Moffat Mof-fat road. " Information has teen received In the city through railroad channels that the Colorado, Wyoming A Idaho railway, : projected to extend from Denver . to Eoise. Ida., by way of Laramie, Wyo.; will never be built unless the Colorado & Southern railway has succeeded to the rights of th? company, as reported recently. The Union Pacific Is also trying try-ing to prevent the construction of the Colorado, Wyoming & Idaho road. - CONGRESS TO PROBE ' - . I'.OFFArS FIGHT FOR GORE CANYON ' (Special to The Telegram.) . DENVER. Colo., June 6. Congress will Investigate the merits of the Gore ' canyon controversy. A committee rep-resenting rep-resenting the House and Senate will arrive here on June 6, and upon" its report will depend the disposition of, the canyon. The committee was ap-- ; pointed originally to look into the irrigation irri-gation question, in the West, but since " the controversy was brought to the at- tention of President Roosevelt, an In-, In-, vestlgatlon of .the Gore canyon dispute has been addeti to its duties. Mr. Moffat Mof-fat has filed affidavits attacking recla-. recla-. - mation officers, whom he accuses of being be-ing interested in the New Century Power company, which is fighting him for" possession of the canyon. Will Inspect Canyon. . The1 Union Pacific and other Harriman Harri-man lines have made arrangements for ' carrying the Congressional committee through the States of the West. They will make an extensive tour of the arid land section tp Investigate all irrigation irriga-tion projects, and will determine the necessity for work on the part of the. Government in Colorado, Utah and .Wyoming. ' T Union Pacific railroad officials end the officers of the reclamation service ser-vice say that if the schedule is lived up to bv the committee that Denver will be reached July , when an immediate imme-diate trip will be made to Gore can-N can-N yon- ' " ; '" ' ' . Among those In the parly are Sena- tors Newlaads, Ne'vadai Warren, Wyo- mlng. and Fulton. Oregon; Congressmen Congress-men Mondell. Wyoming; Cooper, Penn-. Penn-. fylvania; Hitchcock Nebraska; Reed-er. Reed-er. Kaniae: Marshall, North Dakota; . 'Pmith, Texas; Jones.; Wssfilngton.. and Judge Parker. Washington, D. C. The ' Harriman officials have sup- i-lied the party with a special train and has routed the train over all roads necessary nec-essary to travel over to leach the many reservoir projects of the United States " reclamation service. i J. H. Quinton, supervising engineer j for the service In Colorado. Wyoming vr.d Nebraska, intimates that the re-ciamation re-ciamation service will not rest Quiet tinder the charges of Mr. Moffat. He -fays Mr. Moffat -has no right to Gore cfcnyon. . . . ' " He says the canyon is worth $200,000.-- $200,000.-- r Ci00 to the people of Colorado more than tha Moffat road can ever be worth to ths State. ; ! , Seek a Forfeiture. i . The latet move of the United States I In ttii Gore canyon matter controversy is the filing of a motion In the United States court for the forfeiture of an old - right of way held by the Denver & Rio ' Grande road since 1SS4, from the mouth of the Blue river In qrand county along y the Grand to where the Eagle river enters it on the old Ute reservation. This covers an extent ot sixty-four miles, passing through the Gore canyon. can-yon. The United States District Attor-. rey states in his pt-tition thdt under the law by which the Denver & Rio ' .- Cranda road obtained this right of way -; It must do a good amount of work on the proposed line within five years after af-ter f.he franch'se was granted. The pe-tl'. pe-tl'. i states thet the railroad has nev- J -1" v;- ' i '" . ' |