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Show FREIGHT R ATES CUT Ami the Hearts of Zion Merchants Made Glad. HEAVY SHIPMENTS IN ORDER. The X. C. 11. I. the Greatest Beneficiary Benefici-ary It Is an 111 Wind That Blow I Nobody 1 ood Murray's leep Creek R&ilroad Scheme Still In Esnl.ryo Headlight Flushes From Far and A' ear Sources. The merchant of this city are taking advantage ad-vantage of the freight rate war now raging among the Western line and are ordering larga stocks of merchandise. In 6ome rage so eager are the contending: roads after custom cus-tom a rebate is allowed, although the ship-1 meats were made before the war bgan. The Z. C. M. I. is proving to be the greatest beneficiary as their shipments are heavier than any other corporation in the territory. In tbe matter of nails alone their saving amounts to almost a thousand dollars, as they were allowed rebate of 25 cents a hundred pounds oa several carload lots. . Murray's Deep Creek Scheme. Murray'6 Deep Creek railroad scheme is til 1 in embryo and none are now too poor to do the doughty colonel reverence except his fldus Achates, Major W. L. Dykes, the great well-borer of Ibapah. That gentleman has never lost faith, even for a moment, and when questioned invariably replies: "Everything will be all right within ten (lays'" This has been going on for about tou months, and in time Murray's scheme will be alluded to iu about the same term the 'ebfooter of ten years ago mentioned the great bridge "they were going to build across the Willamette." The Webfooters now have their bridge, but as the veil of the future cannot be penetrated the benighted denizens of the Deep Creek country have no such hope to spur tlicm on to greater exertions exer-tions ia developing the rich mines of that region. Headlight Flushes. The first elevated road in Great Britain will be in Liverpool. The road is already in the course of construction. Fastbound freight shipments from Chicago last week amounted to 03,751 tons aerainst 55,540 for the preceding- week, an increase of 8,271 tons, and against 60,191 for last year. . The Canon City & Cripple Creek railway, recently incorporated, is said to be backed up by the Denver & Rio Grande, and that a survey for the proposed route will soon be made. i Denver Sun: Lieutenant-Governor Smith, treasurer of the Arapahoe & Western, has returned from Salt Lake. It is rumored that his Western trip was on important matters concerninc this route. Lines in the Western Passenger association have voted down the proposition adopted by Uie transcontinental association to extend the return limit of Pacific coast tourist tickets tick-ets from six to nine months. President S. H. H. Clark of the Union Pacific has been elected president of the Fort Worth A Denver City railway, the first division ot the Fort Worth road north of that city. G. M. Dodge retires to make room for Mr. Clark. |