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Show WE8TEEN BAILWAY PROOBESS. The 8t. Joseph Gazette saya tbe Union Pacific railroad company proposes pro-poses to make St. Joe one of ita astern termini, provided that city will relinquish to the company us stock in the St. Joseph bridge company. com-pany. The Omaha Herald wants the Longmont extension of the Colorado' Central railroad celebrated by an excursion ex-cursion in which Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming citizens shall join. A dispatch published to day states that the Atchison, Topeka and Santa F6 railroad has determined to extend its line, the terminus of which is new at Pueblo, Col., to some point on the Utah Southern railroad, thereby making a western connection with the Central Pacific, and competing directly di-rectly with th Union Paotfio ler the continental traffic. Aa the Utah south- j rn and Utah Central roads are con- j trolled by the Union Pacific the problem of through connection might not b? satisfactorily solved in this way, but if the Atchison, Topeka and Santa F6 track should ever roach the Utah Southern line, the company would probably push on to a connection connec-tion with the Central Pacifiii road at some point farther west. The friends of the Texas Pacific railroad are stiH hopeful of the suo-cess suo-cess of their bill in the present congress, though it will be fought desperately by the Huntington interest, inter-est, who will endeavor to obtain the commitment of the house ou the anti-subsidy resolution early to an session. The public interests demand that there shall be an effective competition com-petition in the great continental railway rail-way traffio.and if a subsidy is necessary for this purpose, it may be the cheapest cheap-est methed by which competition1 could be secured. |