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Show iMllllD. Tiie R. G. W. 'to Build lo the Gcast. For this Purpose the Line Will Be Extended From Manti. Passengers For San Francisco Fran-cisco Will Leave the Main Line at Thistle. President Palmer of the Rio Grande Western is going to Denver next week to meet General Manager Dodge. Then the two are going West, and on a very important mission, too. The fact has long since been known that the Rio Grande Western line wanted an outlet to the coast, and the matter has been given publicly in the Denver Noes from time to time. The way it looks now, the Western has just about accomplished its purpose, has v 1 1 the plans perfected and is going to California just as fast as brains and money can take it. The Western ha suddenly become a power in transcontinental transcon-tinental traffic. It is like a queen, reigning ovtr all, and its independence, independ-ence, while rtmsirkable, is nothing more than should be expected. An road whose earnings show au increase of 05 per cent per month over the corresponding cor-responding period last year, can afford to be autocratic. Then, too, the stock of tfie, road is going up like a skyrocket, and just so long as there is such a phenomenal Increase in earnings the stock w ill continue to advance. Hence if i he Western wants t'j build a line anywhere there is no reasoa why it cannot be done. About 125 miles from Ogden at the town of Thistle, on the line of the Western, is the point Irom which the company concluded to build a branch line. That is what it was called while in course of construction, and now as the sttel rails extend further and further to the southwest the railroad rail-road people begin to see that it is go iug to be a great through line. Not a great deal of progress was rmule on the road until last winter, when the construction was very vigorously pusuea. rne roau now readies aoout seventy-five miles, and it is expected that it will reach Salina, Utah, by July 1. That point is more than 100 miles from Thistle. The .road 'will then not be more than a comparatively short distance from the California coast, and it would not take a great while or a great deal of money to complete it. To look into this iattter is just what President Palmer and General Manager Dodge are going to see about. It looks now as though they would have smooth sailing to the Tacific wsiters. A wealthy syndicate lias secured a riffhtrof way (and terminal fsicilities lor a roaarm.o L,os Angcdes through Pasadena. It. is si very valuable franchise, fran-chise, and they had a knock down r.nd drag out fight with the Southern Pacific Pa-cific before it was secured. The owners own-ers of the franchise are desirous of building a iine through eastern California Cali-fornia towards Utah, from which point it wmilil w-ifft- ! r fiuld, i Mitlot- I Inn. the grand coupe d'etat will be made, when the Western forms au alliance with the infant California line. It will be a great combination. Such a desil is almost an assured fact, as if the Western did not join hands, the Union Pacific has built a line as far west us Pioche, which would offer fair connection for the Los Angeles line. The Western would not permit its enemy to gain any such advantage. They claim it would give them the short line from the coast to Denver and Chicago, because the through line wroitld cut off at Thistle and save 150 miles. The Western would then hold a winning hand. Speaking on tlie subject hist night's Salt Lake Times says: Although sub rosa, it is understood that President Palmer will be in Salt Lake next week. The presence of General Manager Dodge here this week is looked upon as a forerunner of what is expected to happen. The Denver papers have a string of stuff to the effect that, these two Rio Grande Western officials will go west from here to look up the matter of an extension ex-tension of the road to the cosist. This matter has beeu rumored frequently before. |