Show NEW NE RAILROAD TO BENEFIT COLORADO Transcontinental System Will Link Denver With Los An Angeles Angeles Angeles geles and Mexico PLANS ARE MADE PUBLIC VAST AREA OF VIRGIN TERRI TERRITORY TERRITORY TERRITORY TORY TO BE OPENED UP UPA UPA UPA A new transcontinental line that will bring Denver Into closer communication by rail with Los Lo Angeles and which will Ill give gAve straighter connections between Den Denver Dener Denver ver er and nd the Mexican lines lIne of o the Harri Harrl Harriman Harriman man system was announced as official last night tIght from Denver The new line says saya General Superintendent dent J M Davis of the Oregon Short Line ard ald Southern Pacific in Salt Lake will In no way interfere with the traffic on the Southern Pacific and the Union Pacific but will viIi merely open up a 11 virgin territory and will benefit Colorado more than any an other state elate in the west Back Bak of the Arizona na Eastern Railroad t Incorporated in Arizona last week is of capital and the or organization of this tl s road was merely the to the construction of a great system and the merging into it of a num number tier ber of subsidiary lines Although at first announced as a branch the line which Is Isto to t be b built from Denver to connect with the Denver Rio Grande at Durango is isto to t be made a main line and it is only one rte ne of a number of ot connecting links to be instructed Information Given Out I Official information I the plans I of the tue Harriman system is to the effect that the Arizona Eastern will be made into a system comprising 1877 miles of or a system about equal in size else to th main lines of the Colorado South Southern ern frn em Of the till in capital stock au aut t will wm be used to take Jr er the Gila Valley Globe Northern Maricopa Phoenix Arizona Colorado and the Phoenix Eastern all of which are rl subsidiary lines of the Southern Pa Pacific Ifil A new transcontinental line will be via Yuma and Phoenix and from froni II tIis is line extensions will be made in two directions into Colorado The new now line iino from Yuma Tuma on the pres present presEnt ent main line to Phoenix will be 1 nul nut s long The Phoenix Eastern tracks will be used from Phoenix to from which point new newt n ne m t will be constructed to Lordsburg N M 1 another point on the present main r This route will comprise SO miles TIP r f 11 main line into Colorado will start frim fm San Carlos Arizona and run via to Globe thence to the boundary boun ar itt Imp between New Mexico and Colorado where it is Intercepted by b the Las Ant Ani Animas mas ulas river In Colorado it will be ex tt tl m iid pd north to Durango This line will willI 1 I h 4 miles mites long There will be miles mUes o branch lines to this road including fre Me e from northeasterly to the ew Mexico border 2 miles long Route of a Second Line The fhe second line into Colorado will start 1 at tile tap mouth of ot the San Francisco river 11 Li Graham county count Arizona and run via Clifton lifton to a connection with the main line between Aztec and Farmington about 75 76 Miles south of Durango There will be bes s miles of branches and connecting links built l The Durango line will connect with the them theL m L w transcontinental line through Arl An and furnish the shortest route from Denver Inver Omaha and Chicago to Los An AnK K 1 ls s It will save at least and pos poss possibly sibly s bl O miles over the present shortest r rutE jute The Clifton line is to open a through route to the Mexican lines of ot the South Southern Southern ern em Pacific |