Show IT IS PAYING TELL The 3IidInnil Terminal Road a De clclcil Success Encouraging reports continue to come from the Midland Terminal railroad rail-road the short line from Divide to Midland It has all the business it can carry with its limited machinery and Vice President Collbran feels fully warranted war-ranted in assuring his backers that the road is a winner The earnings of the road show It to be paying 1 percent per-cent a month upon its investment and it Is predicted this rate can be kept up and even increased when the road Is built right into Cripple Creek It is doubtful if similar returns are being made on any other American railroad today Work tf preparing the way for the tracklayers is being rapidly pushed on the intervening stretch between the present terminal at Midland and Cripple Crip-ple Creek It is only a question of weather so the contractors say until l1 they will lay the last rail into the big camp When this is done there will be another very Important change in addition ad-dition to the fact that the camp will have a railroad rates will be reduced Mr Collbran says he appreciates that the present rates charged over his line are comparatively high but says he is obliged to enforce them by his traffic contract with the Santa Fe railroad It is hinted that the rate from Divide to Cripple Creek will be no greater than is now charged to Midland Speaking Speak-ing recently about his line Mr Coil bran said The Midland Terminal wUl be a popular line 1C human Intelligence can make it so It Is to be accepted that < J at first flush many troublesome details will crop up but as they are discovered 1 discov-ered so also doubtless will a remedy j G J and we propose to get rid of them as 1 fast as possible |