Show WESTERN BUYS STEEL big purchase of rails made on thursday vat TAKES TWO THOUSAND TONS sufficient to lay about twenty two miles of track will probably be used between summit and spring ville old rails balls to go on 11 extensions company will also order one hundred stock cars and one lI hundred undred coal cars of tho the gondola pattern the rio grande destein Ve stein li ii in the market for steel ralls rails avid and rolling stock it us was learned yesterday that general Ali naser D C dodge la Is lit in Cli chicago leago and that he placed an order on thursday for tons lona of en 0 pound M rails its to ith one no of the ih lilg big houses of the lake city this amount of steel would complete about twenty two tao miles of track irack it te is surmised that this hoary heavy rall rail III he be used in relaying the curves curve 8 in soldier canyon Iet between Pen the summit t and tile and the old ra rails taken up x will ill lie be used as a starter tor for the exten slona lit in projection for the summer in addition to this good order it la Is said that the general manager rill mill a also too ot older der modern stock cars of the feed it and nd water type it hach m will ill be after the pattern used by the burlington when it ordered stock cars iaac year they will be si 36 toot foot cars with all modem appliances anither Anith vr order to be placed mith ath the same car factory is tor for coal cars of oton SO O ton capacity and built on the gon gondola dolit gattein pat tein it la Is stated that the peninsula company of michigan apts the orders for the flip cari but it 1 I not known who furnishes bishes th the steel but as aa the price camo came dow n to 17 IL a t ton on recently it Is thought that the company took advantage of t fliam the I 1 e d drop ernp in price an example set joy by the missouri pacific last week isaich chich with other big st louis companies pa illos ordered many thousands of tons ol of 1 steel the lilo nio bande grande westerns We sterns order m i ill add to the confidence in which that company li 14 held by the people an and d heightens the booi gooi prospects of the toads extensions summer transpacific ROADS deal by which they will be operated in ill harmony new tark tork reb feb 19 alie renewed report that president J J hill of the great northern railway had bad secured a controlling interest in the northern pacific railway cannot be verlund on wall street the revival of the th story estory at this ft time me attracts no attention among dealers in railroad securities 1 w ho havo had information of such a state of 0 things for several w 11 ecks it became known february that tho the bankers syndicate which under wrote the northern plan of reorganization had sold two shirts of the stock accruing to it toabe joithe DOu ische bank of berlin and others tho the purchasers ate aio recognized as aa close friends of president hill of the great coith thorn them northern pacina securities hants ha been dealt in on the stock exchange ever cover since on the conviction that president hill will mill henceforth have a voice in tho the direction of northern racille affairs this sale wag regarded as 33 the culmination of a plan top for the sympathetic control of the two roads long in contemplation and the mutual advantage of which Is obvious the almost it simultaneous announcement of a sale of orr oregon xon railway navigation securities curi curit ties les to interests Inte resti identified with the th northern pacific great northern and union pacific indicated the still further furt lier ramification of the plan of the management of this group of transcontinental lin lines p while none of the interests concerned have consented to give sanction to the inferences drawn from thesis theno transactions or to disclose the ultimate holers holders of nf the securities sold the fact that tho the northern pacific and the great northern will be b in harmony aa a result Is generally recognized railroad Hail road notes 5 W eccles returned from idaho yesterday J C divi division plan engineer of the union pacific was lit in t alic I 1 ic city yesterday supervisor of bridges and buildings A 11 king of the th union pacific arrived in town yesterday W craig nets acts as joint agent at provo for the farmers Far mera institute luther foster will sign tile the certini a top A burlington special made the run from chicago chic ago to denver 1026 miles in lla in 18 hours hour 62 minutes the journ journey y goo g into history as one of the th greatest Krea test rail load feats eier eer |