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Show IiEiiyLimSiI What U Said in Denver About tha Reported Re-ported Sale of the Bio Grand Western. MOriAT AND SMITH DENT IL- Rumors That Roth th Burlington and Bock Island Hare Grasped the Mountains. pEKVKR. April IH. - Immediately upon the receipt of the new In a special disputed dis-puted from Salt Lake that th Rock. Hand road had purchased the Ui (hand Western, a Denver New reporter re-porter sought lYr-ddcut Moffatt of th-i th-i Denver & Rio Grande railway, but hn could not bo found. General Manager Man-ager Smith was seen at Uio Denver club. He denied nil knowledge of the ruuiorniid said it was utterly with .' out foundation. The Rock Island woublf neUhiT pun-lia or make any traffbn arrangement with the Rio Grande West-: ern until some ileal had been madoj with the Denver and Rio Grand. a the Rock Island would bo shut out frmis-j tlin former line. j U thero any deal pending betweeiv the Denver and Uio Graudo and tho Rock Mnnd ?" "Not that myself or Mr. Moffat ar aware oi." replied Mr. Smith. "V would certainly know if the Rock Istsml had any scheme to gobble the R(o Grande 'Western or make any trackage) deal." "Aro you aware, Mr. Smith, that there is a rumor afloat that the Hurling-ton Hurling-ton Is laying it plan to scoop In th entire, Deitvcrand Rio Grande system " The general manager' eye opened, aeveralfraetirtn of an inch witter, ami he coolly replied: TlmO stunner." Mr. Smith aid. "The Huiiingtou may havo some uch gigantic deal on foot, but they havw have kepi l lie head official of tho Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande In the dark, and I think they might h ive told u about it." ho added with a merry twinkle in hi eye, "I can't Imagine how the rumor could have ori'jlimted, hut I know nolhlug about it, mid neither does Mr. , Mou.it. If tho Burlington or ny other lino want In gobblo the Denver Rio Grande thry hare a hiirt Job ou their bund. In mr opinion these report have grown on : of a publication that the Rin k I .land had made a deal with tho Colorado Midland to run lis train overthe latter; lino to Grand Junction. Hul en tbi could not Iki done without tho consent of the Denver & Rio Grand, a we owu a half lutTesit in the Riu Grande Jitm-tlou Jitm-tlou rallwao I mm Vow Castle lo Grand Junction, and the MWIUnd peopln would make tin arrangement without Unit consulting ii. The Hock Maml may u the Midland track from Colo., raifn Spriii to New Castln and then run It "leepi ik or through eoaehe t Ogdcii, but I ipiewtlon whether Ibcjr have made such u deal." KM'OHTUi I riWAllO. "i At ii lute hour a privato dispatrh vra received from Chicago slating that th rumor was current there that the Kur-1 lingtoii had iu!vhHd a controlling in-f leresl In the D' tner & Kin Grande, ' thereby continuing tho rumor that were ii'lhiiit Iu thi i lly yesterday. Il would appeal thut there w-ri! certainly 1 Mime negotiation n bt from thi numerous rumor that are in circula- ti but tho Denver h ople ho would naturally be Interested rlsilm to Im In, total ignorance of any pending deal, t io vt trie ri,Am. Iim.'lal or lb Hn4 KIm-iiw 4ii ol t . I'lKtl. Vice Pre-ident Holcoitib, General Manager Dickinson. General Manager, MeNeal of the St. J'Mi ic Grand Iland Superintendent Burr and Brinkerlmff of the Nebraska and Raima divisions, ; and L. S. Anderwrn, wwUUnt lit l'r'i-' dent Adams, held a conference in Vten President Holcomb i.tllee, at which they discussed eeral iiiiot1ant matter mat-ter and Mime linprowmenuto beinadi this year, say the Omaha Itee, ( liieoiie-lioii under consideration a the probable outlay neeery for now , steel rail to Uke tho place of obi Iron ! one on branch line Iu th .M..iiri t river district. Under thi propmi- lion come tho work of changing th Kanwi Central fnun a narrwer to a broad gam. road, Thi I to lie done ae , once, conseotieiitly new and hay rail ? for 2W mile of track will bo . required re-quired . Mr. Holcomb returned from the wet ; Saturday Idght well Infonned a t new work under way. proposed tension ten-sion and other Improvement oVef which he will bavo general urvi- . In addition to lb Kama Central. , the Montana Centra!, which i abw U iiig bi out! gauged, the Union I'aeirt- has r utlv purchased another line of tweiiiy eiglit mib In Utah known a the hio Pete V'alb-y road running h-teen h-teen Nephl and M-mti. i That also 1 to l brought up l standard All this tciuire great iiia-f iiia-f titie of steel Independent of that used ' in stMitf Iiteuing and rel.iying iue) eighty mil' or wore of the Oregon, hliort Lin, the building of W mil f road from Portland i I'uget hound and pushing tl Salt l.ak outlweter toward Southern California. |