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Show THE RAILWAY RECORD President Mmvel Says that the Atchison is Hot Buying Everything in Sight i . HE DENIES THE RECENT EEP0ET3 Brief Items of Interest from the World of the Eailway Notes and Personals- In an interview at St. Lonis President Allen Manvel, of the . Atchison-Frisco lines, said that the purchase of the Colorado Midland has been concluded. "But," he continued, "it may be well to say that the Atchison is not buying up everything in sight. Wo have been ; credited with numerous purchases and works of extension of late. It has been said that we were negotiating for the Rio Grande Western, for the Denver & Kio Grande; that we were about to extend ex-tend the Southern Kansas line from Panhandle, Texas, to Albuquerque, the Atlantic & Pacific further westward, and that we would build up the San Joaquin valley to San Francisco. There is no foundation for any of these rumors. We are not building any new lines or extensions. I heard of the Albuquerque story in New York, and I wrote Judge Springer that it was gratifying to hear that he had the money at hand for such a vast undertaking. The fact is, Judgo Springer never authorized any of these statements. When wo do anything of interest to the public we are very glad to announce it. The Frisco extension will be carried out some day according to the original programme, but it may be many years hence." .- , . "Do you know of -ny pool in existence exis-tence by which the G 'lild-Huntington- Atchison interests control tho situation in the southwest." "I certainly do not. We have no pool, but we are represented in the new Southwestern Railway and Steamship association for the maintenance of rates, and-we believe that it will be a strong factor for harmony and stability in that regard." Ephralm and the Railroad. The Ephraim City Register says: Considerable anxiety has been felt by the citizens ' of Ephraim for the past two weeks on account of the complica-i complica-i tions that have arisen with regard to I the railroad. The first line run by the surveyors on B street was too neai the fence on the north end. The city fathers objected to this condition, . and rightly too, as they did not desire to intrude on the people and a second line was run to conform with the desires of the council, that the road was not to be nearer than 20 feet to the fence at tho nearest point. The council, committee, ye reporter and some other .gentlemen went down on the line and found that the surveys made conformed with the desires of the council. On the evening of the 22nd the surveyors sur-veyors and Mr; Babcock met with the council and presented a plat of the road, also a petition asking for the right of way and depot grounds. The People's Peo-ple's committee, also presented a petition peti-tion asking the council to buy 100 feet off the face of one of the blocks required re-quired for depot purposes. The council coun-cil agreed to grant the right of way on B street according to chart, from the north side of Third North street to the south side of Third South street. The petition of the committee was also considered con-sidered and acted upon favorably. Before Be-fore the meeting adjourned it was discovered dis-covered that theS.P V. owned the land 30 feet east of their track on the north side of Third North street which effectually effec-tually shut oui tho R.G.W. This was a condition of things not expected, and caused a good deal of consternation, F'acts appeared very gloomy for the road unless the city would let them in on A ttreet west. After some consideration consider-ation it was decided to let the surveyors survey-ors run another line, keeping as near the S.P.V. as possible considering their land claims. On the morning of the 23d the proposed pro-posed line was run and the council and some others went out to look at the condition of affairs. It was found the center of the road would be exactly on the northwest corner of Mr. Anderson's lot and that it ran off the block about midway. It was considered practical to buy this right of way and build the road where surveyed and the council oted accordingly. Mr. Henry Beal the contractor for the grade through Ephraim, had been laid off all this time waiting for a decision. de-cision. He was ordered back to work on Monday Inst, and now we hope to see no more hinderances until the road is completed. ' A Banquet In the Tunnel. The great international tunnel of the Grand Trunk railway under the St. Clair river is expected to be completed early in February, and arrangements are already being made for a formal opening which will comprise the novel feature of a banquet in the tunnel itself. The plan it is said contemplates having a table 1000 feet long located so that one-half will stand on ear h side of the international boundary, with tho chair- man seated exactly on the line, and on either side of him official representatives representa-tives of the Canadian and American governments. The opening of continuous continu-ous rail connection between the two countries certainly will be an occasion for mutual felicitation, and tho theme ought to so inspire the speakers as to prevent even the most prolix of them from resembling the tunnol itself by being a very great bore. Winter Tonrist Rate. That abreast of the times line, the Rio Grande Western railroad, has inaugurated inaugur-ated in Salt Lake City the custom of selling winter tourist rate tickets. - The company will sell round trip tickets from Salt Lake, Ogden and Provo to the following poiuts at rates annexed: Asheville, N. C $90.85; Augusta, Ga., $80.03; Hirmingham, Ala., $00.40; Calla- han. Fla., $88.65; Charleston, S. C. $00.85; EI Paso, Tex., $00.00; Deming N. M., $0.00; Houston, Tex., $(M.00; Jacksonville, Fla., $89.35; New Orleans, La., $09.40; Monterey, Mex., $77.00. The above tickets will be on sale until April 30th, 1801. Railroad Mote. Henry Deal put a full force of men on the grade Monday between Ephraim and Manti. and will now push the work to completion. Manager Resseguie of the Union Pacific, Pa-cific, is attending the time card meeting meet-ing in Ogden today. It is expected an additional train to Butte will be put on and other changes made for the con venience of the publio. |