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Show AMONG THERAILROADS The Schema to Unite tho Great Bail-toads Bail-toads of the West and South, west is Making Frogrsn. Will LEADVILLE 13 HAPPY. The Rio Grande Westim Earnings General Hotoi of Various Lin'is News of Local Linus. The scheme to unite tho great railroad systems of the west and southwest under one general management is miking somo progress. The financial departments depart-ments of the Union Pacific, the Atchison, Atchi-son, t he Missouri l'aeilie, the Southern l'aeilie, the Central Pacific and tho l'aeilie Mail Steamship company are preparing detailed statements showing show-ing the condition of the earning capacity capa-city of their respective) properties. These statements are to form tho basis upon which the relative value of each property is to be determined. The plan is to form a new corporation, with a cap til stock lai j? ) enough to rover all the iuteres.s that may bo willing will-ing to join. If a satisfactory apportionment of values (an be made the stork of the several companies will be deposited in the treasury of the central company in cxi hringo for the trust certilicates issued by that company. Tho old corporations cor-porations will be kept up and will per-lonn per-lonn their internal functions hs before, but in the matter of getting business ninl dividing tho prolits there will be a unity of interest. 'Ihere will be no competition, and joint agencies will reprice individual agencies wherever such a thing is possi- -bio. Raining a Wind. Tho Pittsburg papers are full of tho ' reported intention of tho 15. & O. to parallel the Pennsylvania from Haiti-more Haiti-more to Chicago. It is generally conceded con-ceded that tho It. & O. has secured control con-trol of the Pittsburg it Western. Andrew Carnegie, who is spoken of as liiu new president of the It. it O., says lie will not accept the position unless he has softening of the brain. Charles F. Mayer, president of the road, has no intention of resigning, and ho is not likely to step out to favor another man. lfrnrr Inrrmn. The I'io Gran le Western earnl ngs for tho secou i week of March show another heavy ineieaso. Receipts this year are: Freight, &M,OC0; passengers ?1 0.000; other, &I.H0.1; total, KIW.OIK). Last year was: Freight, f 14.000; passengers, pas-sengers, C!i,;00; other, $1,300; total, t'-'l.wio. Increase, $11,000, or 50.40 per cent. From July 1 tho increase is Jol8,().i0, or 49.C4 per cent. Trice of Coal Down at Loadellle. All of the people in Lcadville who use coal are smiling because the price is 40 per ton. For about eight months the smelters have been enjoying a reduced re-duced rate and kept so mum about it that hardly anybody on the. outside knew of it. The smelters consume n bout 7r,Cn!) tons a year, the total con-sumn'on con-sumn'on being something like 209,000 T Rallread Motes. ' The Duluth, Pierre & Black Hills road will be completed this year. . ' J. D. Kenworthy of tho Santa Fe Is today moving into his uowollicoon scalpers row. Tho Mexican National railroad is now being changed from a narrow to a broad gauge. This morning forty-two passengers left Salt Lake in tho lirst class Pullman sleeper on No. 2, Bio Grande Western. Tho Union Pacific has a number of schemes of importance to the southwestern south-western part of Montana under consideration. consid-eration. Tho Intercontinental railway commission com-mission has met and will start a surveying sur-veying party for Mexico in a few days. Another corps of surveyors will start for South America within a month. General Manager S. II. II. Clark and other officials of the U. P. are expected in Salt Lake next week. They will go Garfield beach and see what improvements improve-ments are necessary for the summer campaign. |