Show DENVER 7VOT SATISFIED I I A Kick Against the Midwinter Fair Rate I The San Francisco press if it desires I the complete success of the MIdwinter fair cannot too vigorously press the necessity of reasonable rates of rail road fare upon the management of the railroad lines says the Denver News At present the existing passenger tariff tar-iff prohibits the region east of the Sierra Nevadas from a full participation in what is certainly the grandest and noblest effort of the isolated people I of the Pacific coast have ever made a an exemplification of western American Amer-ican enterprise Colorado Kansas Missouri I Mis-souri Nebraska Iowa the Dakotas sour and in fact all the transMississippi I region have a warm sympathetic feeling feel-ing for the Pacific coasters But their I sympathy and support cannot be given over a veritable Chinese wall of excessive exces-sive railroad rates In the instance of the circular issued by Secretary Julian Sontag of the TransMississippi convention to meet one month hence in San Francisco the i railroad rates for round trip tickets are I made as follows From Missouri river points 6550 Ogden 35 Denver and Cheyenne 60 These rates as applied to Denver are only 510 less than the I regular thirty days round trip first class excursion rate open all the year round I this is the promised reduction reduc-tion of the transcontinental lines to I the Midwinter fair then the San Francisco Fran-cisco people must not expect a popular I influx from east of the Rockies A half rate excursion round trip ticket I good for thirty days would be 35 as the existing excursion thirty days limted firstclass is 70 while the announced Midwinter fair rate is 60 I from Denver I is time that the San Francisco i press looked after this business if it I would save the Midwinter fair from i failure A united demand upon the railroad authorities might not only secure se-cure reasonable or half rates from Ogden and El Paso but make the round trip rate 12 from southern California instead of 18 a announced I is sincerely hoped east of the Sierra Nevadas that Californias great railroad monopoly will not kill the goose which lays the golden egg There is far more in the Midwinter fair for California than the mere fair itself Millions of idle capital awaits investment and it is only the lack of I information westward which prevents its coming |