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Show LET THE IMfiliM The Central Pacifio is Not Afraid of Another Snow Blockade the Coming Winter. THE MIDLAND EAILEOAD DEAL. Local Men Take No Stock in the Story of The Option on The WesternNotes. West-ernNotes. The P.io Grande Western officials have received a letter from Third Vice-President Vice-President Slubbs of the Central Pacific, in regard to that line's preparations for the winter trallic. The Western and Central have a trallic arrangement by which they run through Pullman sleepers sleep-ers from San Francisco to Grand Junction, Junc-tion, via Salt Lake city, and just as soon as the Colorado Junction road is completed, com-pleted, these sleepers will be run through to Denver. Mr. Stubbs' loiter is as follows: We have put the Central Pacilic line in such condition that we are confident no delays or discomforts to passengers will occur during tho coming winter, even though it sliould bo as severe as last winter, which was the heaviest season we have ever experienced. Tho condition of the Central Pacific track is better than it has been for many years. It is practioailo sixty pound steel, excepting on the mountain division, whero all renewals have been made with seventy-live pound steel. Before the winter opens we will build over 9000 feet of additional snow fences on the Salt Lake division. On the Sierra Nevada mountains wo shall replace about a mile of snow sheds covering tho exposed section upon which we encountered the greatest difficulty dif-ficulty last season. We havo also taken down and rebuilt about three miles of other sheds. Besides tho foregoing the entire line of snow sheds and galleries has been thoroughly inspected and repaired. re-paired. In addition to Hie usual complete equipment of snow plows, we shall havo a complete equipment of rotary plows and from five to ten largo engine plows. We have a full equipment of track Hangers, which are run by compressed com-pressed air from the locomotives. Take No Htoi k iu It. Local railroad men take no stock in the report that tho Santa Fe has secured control of tho Rio Grande Western, There seems, however, to bo no doubt of tho sale of the Colorado Midland to the Santa Fo. General Manager Coll-bran, Coll-bran, of tho Midland, when asked to authenticate the reported Rale said: " I have seen reports of the intended transfer in a number of the Boston and New York papers for a number of days past, and 1 guess fully fifty people havo stopped mo on tho street and asked mo about it. I havo no official notice of of Jav Gould's, tho owner of tho Missouri Mis-souri Pacific system, C. P. Huntington of tho Southern Pacific and President Man vol of tho Santa Fe. The determination determi-nation to form the association and make Mr. Goddard chairman was reached during one of President Manvel's visits to this city. Naturally it would appear on the surface that the headquarters of such an association would be at St. Louis, Galveston or New Orleans.ns the general or operating officers of nearly all the companies in tho interest aro in one of those cities, but instead of this Chairman Goddard's office will probably proba-bly be in Chicago. Mr, Goddard is about 40 years old. In bis position as the chairman of the new Southwestern Railway and Steamship Steam-ship association, he will wield more authority au-thority than any other railway official in the country, 'except tho chairman of the trunk liue association, and the southern railway and steamship association, asso-ciation, which covers tho southern states east of the Mississippi river. The l'anilo Tunnel Completed. The Pando tunnel, 245 feet in lougth, on the new short line of tho "Denver & Hio Grande between Leadville and Red Clifl'e, was completed last night. The grading on each side of the tunnel is completed, and track will immediately bo laid over the portion of tho new lino between Mitchell's and Dugan's. This portion of the new line will make a saving of two miles in distance anil fifty feet per mile in grade, and all trains passing over the lino will immediately derive the benefit of the improvement. The headings of the tuunel were begun on the 1st of July. Tho material through which it is driven is a very hard kind of gneiss rock, and will never require re-quire arching or timbering. Denver & Bio Grande Snow Sheds. A snow shed will bo built this fall over the Denver & Rio Grande track at Elk park, for a distance of 300 or 400 feet. Tho heaviest snow slides bet ween Durango and Silverton occur at that point and causes a great many delays. It will also make tho road much safer for all who travel over the road. Hallway Notes anil I'ersonals. Twenty-eight cars of cattle arrived from M'ilford today, en route for Chicago. Chi-cago. The Missouri Pacific directors have declared the regular quarterly dividend of 1 per cent. J. F. Ralf, city ticket agent of the Big Four railroad at Cincinnati, accompanied accom-panied by his wife and daughter, is in tho city. John W. Young, J. F. Smith, James Livingston and a parly will visit Red Butte quarries this week, with a view to extending tho track. Tho Rio Grande Western has laid seventeen and one-half miles of rail from Thistle toward Fairview, which is to bo reached by October 15th. The Missouri Pacific Railroad company com-pany handled 8015 car loads of melons during the present season from tho vicinity vi-cinity of Charleston, Mo. This exceeds any previous record by 750 cars. One year ago the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe hail a surplus of iiOOO coal cars lying on its sido tracks, for which they liad no use. Six hundred of these cars were converted into fruit cars and have helped to swell tho traffic of California fruits. Tho chamber of commerce is getting up a souvenir for tho general passenger agents, who aro due hero next Monday evening. It consists of a little knick-knack knick-knack box containing binlseye views of Salt Lake City and vicinity, and a bottlo of water from America's Dead sea. the transfer; nut it is all right. I Uo not know anything about the details of tho deal." "It has been talked that the Rio Grande would purchase tho road, has it not?" "Yes. I guess that within tho past two years fully a dozen different oilers bv various roads havo been made to the Midland compauy, but none of them have come up to what the management though tho road was worth. At 50 cents on tho dndar the stockholders will realizo all they put into it and a good rate of Interest besijes." "What did tho stock sell for originally?" origin-ally?" "Thirty-throe cents." "Will the Atchison honor tho contract con-tract with other roads, especially that in reference to tho Rio Grand-M'idland extension?" "I siipjio.so so, but caunot say definitely, defi-nitely, it is reasonable to suppose that they will. A mm-partisan manager, Mr. Sanders, will bo put in charge of that extension." .lay (inuld's Ict Scheme. Tho New York Times says: Since Chairman J. F. Goddard resigned bis position at tiio head of the Western Passenger association, speculation has been rife, as to what ho intended to do. Dispatches from Chicago show' that he is to become chairman of one of the largest associations in tho United States. Tho Southwestern aud Steamship association as-sociation is now being organized out of several similar associations and is going to include all lines from St. Louis and Kansas City to the southwest. This will cover the Missouri Pacific system. Tho Southern Pacific lines in Texas and Louisiana, the Atchison properties of the southwest, notably tho Gulf Colorado Col-orado and tho Santa Fe, and a number of smaller roads. It is the chairmanship chairman-ship of this association which tempted Mr. Goddard to leave the Western association as-sociation and $12,000 a year, just as ho was about to place tho 'Western association assoc-iation on a sound footing nml firing all the dissenting elements into lino. Tho new association is a pet scheme |