Show THE GRAND JUNCTION ROAD work on it stopped slopped through the warring Rail Raff ivay ivay interests I 1 THE SANTA FE IS ONLY BEGINNING 1 speculations on the situation D R G surveyors garfield closes close on Sunday M youngs utah notes reports from grand junction and the colorado railroad offices state that the entire force of 0 mea mca on tho the rio ilia grande junction tion railroad have been dibe adli charged barged and paid off air at grand junction end abid that work Is at an end this too the stub end of the truck within a few miles of the depot when operations are arc to bo be resumed no one Is rash e enough to say probably ably not until the D RG R G midland muddle Is settled peaceably or by some gordian GorI ln knot proceeding in g on it the kron part of 0 the bant banta fo fa in pr the meantime en n tile the patrons patrona of three railroads railroad i are put to grout great inconvenience if not dot positive annoyance and much business Is thrown over to the cho union which otherwise would bo be cheerfully riven given to the new line present indications tay railroad men are that matters will con come to a liend head in three weeks viz tl a railroad cot coup J p d amt in which V a P and d J jay gould are to figure as the motive power department gould has lla big hand band already antho on tho D R G while lie and huntington are beat lly interested in the santa fa As tor for the rio ko grand western people with H huntin g tun to the west of them and gould rod huntington to the ithe east cast ot of thorn them say insiders the tha time la Is neat near at hand band when they have gato sell it itla Is a case caro of hobsons choice it wont do to stick out tor for a big price tor for it if thel alic western ines not accept the term t illde combination the ilia latter has bill its immediate command to fiant newcastle west ot of the hogback baccam back kaM unit up rello creek and the meeker rod road through tho the white while river find and country across the strawberry be ry to park city and nd into salt lake via emigration cation carign the line was surveyed some ago find and it runs through a glo ilona region all the way to this city a re region glon in marbles minerals umber thriller cattle ail and withal excellent tor for agricultural ri to say nothing of its being a continuous panorama ot of s and romantic scenery enery bc there I 1 Is a who rothe paralleling will come in and with the combination sending no through freight or passengers vla via grand junction nothing will he be lott left lor for the western to feed on but purely local traffic trade however there hero 1 ii 19 9 not much chance ot of this being done general palmer paliner and colonel dodge dode fire are no tools fools and know very well who in a hout bout with gould and huntington would come oft off first drat best in other words palmer and dodge will sell and this that t too within weeks as reports go 0 and in speaking ot of gould and the denver fc rio grando it is evident to old non men that the wily magnate Is springing upon the D K R G the same or approximately the same saino game he be worked on oil the manhattan railroad in new york his ila flue fine Itell tu hand is manifested through the S santa anta fe glove in many ways hitting n a blow here and hitting a blow there running down the stock find and embarrassing the road in count loss ways lot the A ji R G 0 make excursion rates between denver pueblo and carion city point and straightway the santa fa Is out with rates going the rio grande ono one dollar better then down comes the original rate or tho the santa fa walks off with the cake one great incentive to tho the central pacific flo R G W and santa jintil 1 fo 16 combination Is the necessity the tb southern pacific Js Is under to find a different exit than the southern for son that it Cali Calf fornias fruit crop which Is already become enormous tho the southern route is too hot moreover vor huntington and gould want coal cuil and they want it bad for f 0 r the lines east and west est of 0 the mountains and colorado arid utah can all the coal needed coal of an excellent quality then the union pacific Is pointing for southern california at tile tho rate of two and one halt half miles a day true Is the objective point but then charles francis and W if holcomb know athi a thing ngor or two and are trying no doubt to make tho the southern pacific folks believe that they will go no further than for a long time lime to come perhaps not there JR if no d doubt on lit but that when the rails roach reach clover valley junction the local engineering department ot of tile union pacific will have P a revelation from the angel adgel of 0 the lord and start in toward los angeles at a rattling pace huntington proposes to be ready for this veteran observers say ay it will be the best thing that can happen both for the dublin and the roads interested that they fill all come coins under oil conr general manager rent in one general system competition has become so tharp that while railroads all it over the country are doing a largely increased business the alie margin of profits lt Is so small that unless consolidations of smaller railroad systems into larger ones are effected not a low roads road will have to go under this idea has bas been outlined time und bud again in titu till TRIBUNE and its advantages pointed out with the consolidation or of interests comes come the reduction of tile official and it 1 I clerical staff with its sweeping reduction 0 of high salaries conflicting Inte interests robt ot of different roads wll will be done away with one general policy will prevail thero there will ho be one system of accounting one general toner al method 0 of management and matters jn in beneral will be so bosini alm illtred that expenses will bo be reduced to their 10 OM eat terms consistent w ith safety und find real economy tho apropo bcd gould system Is to include the central pacific rio klo grande manuo western denver rio grando grande tile tho ia n ta F fe missoura Misso ills bourl url pacific and tho the other roads detailed in tho the recent dispatch from theu then gould controls tile the new caland and new york elevated roads road and these in connection with the erie give it a comprehensive group of lines from ocean to ocean the whole scheme will be made plain before november two colorado midland are reported as having come over tho the union pa club ciffo this week end and gono gone east to grand junction over the rio grando grande western what this means may be conjectured I 1 VOTE NOTE AND PERSONAL garfield will bo be closed tor for the season monday next jolin john W young Is building the utah western up fourth west street to ninth north street 11 II B 13 lodges Il harvard arvard 74 chemist find and engineer of tests of the alie union pacific Is la in from omaha the conductors of the chicago northwestern system have for an increase in salar leg of train from 85 to 15 per month maps of lavo bavo been printed tor for distribution trib ution tile saltair road wll will 1 not ha be built it john W young builds west I 1 this Is winter vice president IV II if at 0 the union pacific 11 has re returned tUrnell to omaha from roni cheyenne and did not come further west president A dams adams Is also at omaha patson gorr gori who etnie came in yesterday over the union report having passed through deep snow from Jul osburg colo to ranston evanston F wyo a distance of miles milel this snow allow delayed their train several bo hours U r the walls ot of the first of the new union pacific freight are gain coin up atilt and the work wor kli 2 now to bo well ja in motion that tho the erection and completion of both houses hou ses aro are merely iho matter ot a bhart time yesterday wui the day on which territorial treasurer bolivar roberts joberta w was as to have opened bids tor for territorial bonds bo ada ot of tile the denomination ot of 1000 each but the matter was postponed until monday next president manvel of tho the atchison At chiron topeka asanta A sainta fa authorizes authorises autho author rises lyes thi the Rail ays age to deny the report that if his I 1 a company has secured an option on OIL the rio grando western road lie says that there hula hae beer no neg stift tiong in regard to that road find and that none ono are to contemplated dt A atall Nt cur car is being fitted up at the gardnor burton milt mill for or J S H young tho the freight find and agent of tile alic j talt tuo this eats will be a closet ditl wah ro room kitchen cantry i dining room stateroom office storeroom store tore room tic eta tho a car will tr be nicely Y ona fitted 1 1 1 ay up p and nd be b made a source of comfort to mr 1 young U g A huge boll bell weighing log 12 aioo pounds tho the fourth largest large ot the kind in the united st atoo Is to be b im in tho the tower af 6 tho now grand central passenger pai station static a ot f tb tho if northern pacific and wisconsin central al roads in chicago tho the bell was recently cast in milwaukee A NEW ROUTE omaha attus 1 within a short time now routes will bo be opened between chicago end and st loul louis by tilt tho atchan Atch lson ln and burlington to roads it the atchison Atch lson will rai neer er be complete until it has aft a st louis line in connection with ith lu its lines between chicago and kansas city president manucl said recently 1 I should not wonder it 1 the st loiles live from chicago will be the next property the atchison Alc hlson owns but he bo would not say that thai this line was how cow under consideration tho the reason was made plain today when it wag waa learned that the ilia atchison Atch laon had mado a contract with the jacksonville southeastern by which it gained mileage rights over that line and from which route it can by various lines run into st loul louis this line hue it Is especially deco sary oary tor for fret freight and in connection with the atchason Atch lson st louis san francisco line which now practically ends in tho the air LS tar far as through Is co concerned the atchison recently ordered ahn I 1 he equipment for seven boven 0 t the ibl n most alost elegant trains of pullman car flo car build and it a thought that the st louis 1 a lines will III bo be opened up as soon as they t anro 1 re completed tho burlington Is the other bidder fox forthe t 1 a rich st loula louis pass passenger anger truffle it itin has as been a standing wonder why tho the burlington has not used u s lt L existing C n g line I 1 or passenger raffle f not adi and 1 l t today to 0 day a y G general ent air a 1 P nasf sor a g pasq A agent cac art E eusula raf 9 t ala bald i iwo wo have as good a line and a as good terminals na 9 as any of the lines between chicago and st it lot louis when the line was first opened pas passenger benger trains were run but they were balcon take nolt oil to avoid ratta competitions but rato rate matters WilL tOrs have gone from bad to worse sinco since ahll unit thero there Is no reason tor for our longer staying out boutot of tile alie st louis passenger business wa have everything toga to gain inand and nothing to lose tile ali 0 opening of these two to routes dias wit will greatly change tile tho railroad situation cacti being what the late tom potter would call 11 a corner although to la neither case will tho the routes be short abort lines they will be in every sense competing lines and will fairly divide the business with those already existing I 1 THAT FIno CAR DECISION DEC officials of the pullman company claim that the decision ot of the cho minnesota M 1 n as a ta 8 court does docs not nat pass at all upon commiss I 1 the a v validity a 1 ade lt y of the order of the rall WILY commissioners 1 0 r r requiring that upper berths bertha bo be closed when not occupied it simply decided they claim that the district court tov to which aich the appeal from tile tho order ot of the commissioners was taken by the railroad rill roud company bad no jurisdiction to consider such appeal RAILWAY nAiL WAi construction the railway aye age gives a summary of the railway construction in tho the united states tor for the first nine little months this year showing miles of now new road already built in thirty nino states and on different lines the total construction for or the year Is estimated at from to miles against last lab year 1 D H R 0 SURVEYORS rocky hocky mountain i news aeu A party of about fifteen denver rio grande engineers left yesterday lit in wagons for or evergreen whore where they will continue their surveys on tho the route to dillon for a couple ot of me months li past engineers have been kept in the field and lievore cold weather sets in they th or will in all probability in auvo five u route selected the matter has been kept alose secret because the company did not act the south fork and other roads to got scent of their scheme bobe 0 buforo it was far enough under way fly to prow kludo the possibility of 0 interference the union pacific Is very much interested to know just what the denver rio elo grande Is going to do anti anil has engineers out watching somo some por sont ato have been interested la in the matter for a good while are of the opinion that tile the rodd road projected by william 0 miller lieu lieutenant t governor smith and others Is identical with the scheme now put on tuot foot by the denver rio elo grande gr ande people it Is even hinted by some persons that the engineering parties tho thought light to be sent sect out by the denver rio eio drande grando are in reality sent out by the parties fl previously mark mentioned who it Is known are ara very tory closely connected with tho the latter company IT IS A BEGINNING denver do nv a r republican the greatest railroad deal ever consummated west of tho the missouri river 1 a rapidly approaching a full nil conclusion not only will no other western purchase compare with I 1 it t I 1 in a importance imi but it Is doubted it any eastern transaction of 1800 1890 will compare 0 n pare with it IL it Is stated abut the rebion recent t tho the midland by the santa sant pa system was but tho the leader to one oneff of the boost gigantic transactions known in annals tho the announcement no of 0 tho the prop proposed oed visit of 0 P huntington to the west and recent revelations in tho the east especially wall street have let the cat out of 0 the bag there are prominent railway officials la deriver denver who think they can trace trac e a notable and significant beginning of a long campaign of railroad generalship in the purchase of tho the frisco property by the santa fa through the instrumentality of this deal 0 P huntington Hunting toa became a large owner of atchison stock wall street 9 speculator speculators in eon claim to have bare unmistakable evidence of tho the authenticity of this assertion find and it Is 19 also generally believed that jay gould find and russell sage also became largo large owners in a the system WI when 0 O 11 this Is considered the ee of the purchase of the southwestern lines Is clearly apparent this opened up E also 1 ao a new flow flold field to the po powerful triangle tor for their aggressive campaign further to the north through the instrumentality of the atchison Atch lson topeka santa fe asa As cardinal principle of modern railroad kings especially when consummating gigantic combinations Is to conduct fit all their negotiations as a nearly incognito cog its as tile purpose pur poes of the santa fa purchase of the midland I 1 lava been ena enveloped jo in dat knes As the facts become known cnown railroad officials from kansas city to sun francisco coin 1101 ICO to sec boo IN hat h at they bellore believe Is the truo true Inward inwardness nes of at the unprecedented ce operations w which bich have been conducted under their noses without ut previous eipl explanation a 1 alro alon As gould could sako sage and 11 outing 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