Show NO OPPOSITION CAN STOP This Is Official Reg Burlington to Salt Lake TRAFFIC MOVE DENiALS ARE TAKEN WITH GRAIN OF SALT Special to The lJ RI my orti oat New I Commercial says In the flu denials widely cIrculated with statements designed to discredit announcements of the Burlington from the MissourI river to Suit Lake City it would seem that some one has talked too much or too noon or baa beer misquoted The announcement of ha plans and preparations comO from Omaha and was made upon the au authority of G IV of that city general of the weal of the Missouri river who by the of his position knows what he Is about What Mr said was to the filing of an amendment to the articles If incorporation of the Nebraska Wyom lag l Western of which Is The amendment In question covers the building of a line of miles which is to be begun at the prine ent junction of the and th Platte river at in county Nebraska an run iu a easterly direction through Cheyenne DeU ci Lincoln Davison Frontier Gee iel Phillips and counties to point either on the line of tho s Colorado between Somerset anti or a point on the line of the Bur Missouri River between Kear ncr Lowell The statement credited to Mr after the of the amendment Is as follows In 1900 the Burlington constructed t lIne between Alliance antI Brush forming the best line between Denver and thio Black Hills Montana poInts Spokane Sc attic and the northwest This inc crosseS the north fork of the Platte river at old Camp Clarke now on the south and on the north bank Long Under Consideration In the same year a line was con from this crossing of the river up the valley along the historic Oregon Trait to the iron mines at Guernsey tons of ore are now being mined daily and shIpped to Pueblo Cole At the same time the location for a first class line was completed between Guern Guernsey sey and Salt Lake it was at ways a part of this plan to construct a direct line from this crossing of the north fork of the Platte river to tiit town of North Platte and to a con connection with tim main line of the road at atthe the most convenient point east thereof The has for sonic time con an additional line between the Missouri river and Salt Lake a enterprise that would be well by the growing at salt Lake City iii and in the contiguous territory from Guernsey west It never has been the policy of the Burlington to construct roads that are not demanded by the natural development and resources of the country This company has sought to avoid building an necessary feeders that would create tie ad additional traffic ard serve no other pur purpose pose titan to damage legitimate railroads It Is confidently believed that this line the North Platte through the town of That anti the extension to Salt L ke wilt sufficient traffic to he of no to railroads that have been con and that these improvements wIll form necessary important addi additions to the existing Burlington linen in operation in the territory went of thO Missouri river Coming Without Doubt it is rumored that some opposition tion may arise from corn panics to these plans but whatever obstacles may arise this work that has been upon will willbe be carried through Construction is isnow now under way and will be prosecuted ed When asked as to the probable time the Burlington would build the line now un iler construction rota Frannie to Basin n the Mr said Thin is a progressive age and there will be plenty of In that territory the probably will o right titer it Ther Is quite a gap the the LOlls in Wyoming but there will be plenty Di iii the near future N ene doubts the ability of tue Bur to reach out with its lines to the PacIfic coast easy financial stances if so as It has 11 moos surplus in the treasury which It possible to extend Its system mi without a dollar from 4 f uw line in is built miles of wili added ti tue system is a big surveying party in the field in said to have received instructions to follow the line of survey laid across Wyoming about four years ago It lies een intimated that certain operations poInt to possible sale to the Lion of the north branch of the Colorado fimi give the a north and south line front Denver to Dna Junction and a further extension would it to connect with the north northbranch branch at Newcastle it line beet otien said that the ton would build west Guernsey to Salt Lake City or a line were completed and offIcial we then made that this wu preliminary to for meeting eon Has Bought Much Coal Land It ha that for yearn time road ha been acquiring rights to coal lands in Sweetwater Carbon and Albany An Ord Nab Is supposed to be Working the ion has recently bought vast areas of coal Lands in southern central an it Is assumed be turned over overto to the when the road is corn The holdings of thin are vast that ft hs taken nearly to rights thereon in vew of tIme of the Bur and tint Pacific and the un of the St Paul also to the e coast with own hines presumably iii of by means lf what has incorporated as the Pa a period of ac lies i is accepted an roo of tit successful develop heat of a to oh alii a Outlet Sue a mav al alays ays acts as a on others No Ins doubts that operations icon secretly way for a long which mu now come t th surface a spite of the to still compel pro which like tra show n tile wind is blowing After Oriental Traffic Of course the desire to keep mat matera era under cover far the longest possible line that rivals might anticipate chat is being has heels natural The rivalry for a almare C the has been con growing more anti more Intense the big railroad systems of the Wintry Strenuous effects to thO at as a date as ii have fully alive each 3 to the commercial development taking lace on the end their earnest de ire to be ready and equipped to handle lie commerce of tl Orient which It is wil be carried the Pa it is quite clear that thoy have long the situation and realize how it was for their greatest pros that they should extend their lines tile coast as oon and ad vapid 51 permit NO OPPOSITION CAN STOP ROAD Continued 1 Denials on behalf of the St Paul ar I Burlington simply serve to t naiad pest experience whoa great pr have been in process of have bome known before bein fully matured These d are looked upon as purely Technical it na been the common practice when a g company wishes secretly hi i tend Its system to permit people t go ahead with the business with u that they would be tak care of on the quiet and the road built taken over whoa completed This was shown in the history and Ii mate of the San Va Valey ley now part of the Santa Fe and carried it to San as a of the Southern Pacific two big systems through th Santa 1 and tine Southern Pacific have airn worked so closely together and such friendly terms that the has been more largely in maine thain fact as they have found it more able to divide territory and do other things that brought disappointment people on tine coast who ook fee a display oC at variance w such an In Point mentioned L been the We era Pacific not inn acknowledged lime and intended to carry the system to tine Pacific coast Later em developments will detern whether denials concerning the St P and the projected Pacific Railroad cn nany are not deceptive in fact wh literally true in tile form in which th appear The St Paul is a cc entity actIng officially un its directors and other officers a corporation It has not of course itself by any official action to support of tine new corporation or to th purpose of building for itself as a cnn part of Its existing system a lir to tine Pacific coast The denials in question do not go b yond and therefore can be accept 1 as absolutely true but they do nut dude which may or Yin not be true that who cc the St Paul are the nw Pacific will finance tins new road see that It is means to finish It and that when thC proper time as heretofore the new road will pass by lease e to the control or ownership t the St Paul aind thereafter be as putt of Its system Tills is the of all such ned are tOO many Indications in tints case as to the facts to he entirely ignored It t cC first and great sigui that the real parties interested cover and evidently to r main there for the present while the f fleets of the nv company are men wh In the railroad world in conn rich with their long identification wit 1 the St Paul in an official capacity s construed ann warrant that th thare are not up to any ord ordnary nary Lare in grounds anti lines zat Tacoma ant other distinctly to the mind of men who usually the cot that the pacific completed be part of a transcontinental system the purpose of tho secrecy and r denials many believe that Paul is a reSt in interest and wilt continue to be bei i a I 1 |