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Show ANOTHER TRANSCONTINKN'TAL KOl'TE. , -- There is soon to Ik! another trans-continental trans-continental railway. It will consist of the Chicago & Rock Island, the Colorado Colo-rado Midland. Denver & Rio Grande, the Hio Grande Western, and the Central Cen-tral Pacific. This new route will be put in operation, as one line,, from Chicago Chi-cago to San Francisco, as' soon as tho Denver & Rio Tiranilc is' widened to a broad gauge road, which will be within a few weeks. This will give a broad gauge road from Denver to Salt Lake and Ogden, and to the Pacific coast. The two outside railroad companies Diosiluterested in this combination enterprise en-terprise are the Central Pacific and the Chicago, Hock Island & Pacific. In fact it is generally understood that a largo portion of the money for the construction con-struction of the Colorado Midland was furnished by uitsu who are heavy stockholders stock-holders in tho Kock Island road, and it is intimated also lliat these same parties have supplied funds to the Denver & Klo Grande and llio Grande Western to cover the expense ex-pense of broad-gauging. These facts give foundation to the belief that tho Hock Island proposes to eventually eventu-ally buy theso roads or to secure a controlling interest in them. In this connection Bradstreet's of May 17th says: "Doubtless, however, traffic arrangements ar-rangements will be concluded with tho Missouri Pacific and Burlington roads as well as tho Kock Island. Partial arrangements, ar-rangements, in fact, were uiado some time ago for the running of through Pullman cars from Chicago to San Francisco by the Burlington, Denver & llio Grande, llio Grando W estorn and Central Pacific, and also by the Kock Island, Colorado Midland, Kio Grande Western aim Central Pacific, ami at the same time from St. Louis by the Missouri Pacific, Denver & llio Grande, Rio Grando Western and Central Cen-tral Pacific. All of theso probabilities involve, also, the probability of a very considerable diversion of passenger traffic from the Union Pacific by. the Central Pacific and its other eastern connections atOgdon." |