Show 1 KRAMER DENIES DENVER RUMOR V I Colorado Col r Midland Will N Not Be Used as Rio Grande Club SALT LAKE PARTY RETURNS 4 I TO BB EE J BIG JUG icHEs 4 Dearer r May tsy y iThe i The News today cai Za a caiA A to 18 I on between tile the Colorado Southern allied with the Har liar Int Interact iid tile the Denver enver I Ie Rio Rion Crande randa n C raDd a pert part of the tile Gould O doBs for or control tile the Colorado Midland road zoad The primary oa of or trite strife to 4 the new hew Moffat road read from froio Denver Dearer to Salt SaltI I Lake which to III I in fa of eon truc construction tion ion t When W the Moffat road refused to grant Grande Orande an ah Interest in inthe the survey of the proposed line liDe from to toI I wInch which will invade inv territory hitherto Mid held exclusively by the latter road rad the Rio Grande in retaliation set fret finding a means of shortening its line 1 i ne to Salt Lake By building a line the direct from Denver to some ome point on the Colorado Midland at least miles or of travel could be saved gaved and the Rio Grande people began becan to negotiate for the Midland This was the purpose e of Russell ell Hard Hardings ings 1112 j S recent sojourn in the state The A Southern d discovered what was being lx ing done and realizing that such a as the Denver I Rio Grande proposed to mak make would materially bene benefit be e fit them in the run to the coast th the thel 7 l egan began gan planning to defeat the scheme echeme The rhe Rio Grande Orande now threatens the South Southern ern eln by holding boldine off oft renewals of old ar arrangement about to expire concerning joint The deals in the big co coal l fields Trouble has not reached th the eruptive 1 stage as yet however j G O W Kramer vice president pre ident of the Colorado Midland and his private secre secretary secretary tary A H Cowie Cowle Co are registered regi at the Knutsford Mr Kramer said Bald he had bad seen men menthe the dispatch He denied that there was wa anything of the foregoing nature peed pend pending ing and added that the story was hatched hat hed up tip in Denver for tor a sensation You can get almost any sort ort of a story tory you Ou want in the railroad circles on Sev ev reet said Mr Kramer with witha a laugh lauah lauahI I Is there any probability of such a deal dealin dealin dealIn in the future was asked ked I There t very Pery v much ed of anything of the Mad kiM There te Is no nO stock Mock on n J the market to get control of It is te J owned by two parties and George eorge J Gould owns half of Mr Kramer said that his visit vf lt at this I time Ime I was in connection n with the Utah Fuel company of O which he is the peas pres president l coHa rehe I ident He has been here looking over the business bu affairs of the company He was here in February for the same pur purpose purpose purpose J pose The business bu transacted acted tran is of ot a aroutine aroutine aroutine routine nature I |