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Show ' 1 Great Northern Movements. A special from San Francisco says: The fact that H. D. Minot ami F. C. Criiger, intimately connected with the Great Northern road, have been in the city several days has given rise to tho rumor that the Great Northern Railway company intends building to San Francisco Fran-cisco from Butte, Montana, via Boise City, Idaho. These gentlemen have been asked several times as to whether or not their presence in the city had any connection with any proposed extension ex-tension of the Great Northern railway into California, and they have denied that such is the case. Railway officials admit, however, that tho road in question ques-tion is fully its able to build into California Cali-fornia as any of tho largo western roads. Hill's properties are recognized us a great rival svsteni to the Northern Paeilic. It is looked upon as an incomplete incom-plete system, because il has uo terminus on the Paeilic coast, a condition that will soon bo changed, for a part of the loan it necurcd in Loudon was for the especial purpose of building an extension exten-sion from Great Falls, Montana, via Spokane, Falls, to Seattle. Work on this proposed extension is now going on in Washington under the uumo ot the Fairhaveu and Southern Railway company. No one questions the intentions inten-tions of the company to build to Seattle, but as to its buildiug to San Francisco there is nothing oil that subject that can ho said that will be moro than speculation. At tho present time it has a traffic arrangement with the Union and Southern Paeilic people by which it has an entrance into this city, and it has an agency here to look after its interests. |