Show MOFFAT ROAD 15 COMING THIS WAY hill trying to buy linik lin that everyone said would break builder Ba ilder if james J hill does not buy the moffat road it will be because D 11 II moffat asks very much more than mr hill thinks it is worth says hayath the herald republican publican Ile hill recently paid eight times the 2 coat cost price of the colorado southern in ill order to get it so there is little duurt he will be williec willi pc to give moffat at a good profit on his line moffat MolY atis is now in new york negotiating with mr lr hill he lie has refused a number of offers for his road the history of the troad is that pf one mans stubborn obstinacy against the advice of all his fellow follow financiers it wil will break you is what they told moffat wl wen en he said he was going to built build a i from denver to lake city he ile laughed and selected the very route that biars before the union pacific engineers eng iners had pronounced impossible it itaas was the shortest line but there was plenty of engineering authority for saying no railroad could be built where moffat line haa his binco since been built mr moffat was worth between and but it was tied up in real estate stocks and mines no other railroad was ever so costly for some of the miles niles r consequently there came a time when he sought to borrow on his road financiers simply would not beer of tt it so he sold some of his holdings and put them into the road finally he got across the rookie and put on one train each way of mixed care every day the cars were crowded and the fares charged were on the stage line basis presently the road began pay ing expenses and when it got fairly into routt cholity it began making money these profit are now being u bied bcd to extend the line and wh while it e not very vory much is heard about it the moffat road ia Is creeping toward salt lake just as the builder baid it would no one doubts now that mr moffat can build it to salt lai lils e without aid he ile hai ha i a pretty good road bed along the route the union pacific engineers engin eera hviid id was impossible i some of hil his trains area are a couple of days late while they are being dug duir out of the enow snow but similar delays happen to the southern pacific when the snow sheds get on firs eventually all that thit will be done away with by snow sheds and tunnels mr moffat hae has reached the age of three score and ten and no doubt be ie would be glad to relinquish the he road at it fair lie ife has built many rt ads burls but never lost money on any of them and no one doubts this last crazy venture will be the most profitable of them all before mr moffat returns nm irm new york will know whether he Is 13 going to keep the road or sell it to mr hill if hill bua a a it the road will get to salt i anky somewhat quicker and hill will pro babi build on to the pacific coast if he docs does not buy it he will extend the burlington from its wyoming terminus 3 to the pacific coast in either event salt lake is very likely to be on the new trans contInents route |