Show GREAT RAilROAD DEAL I Santa Fe and Denver Rio Grande Plans i FORMING BIG CONSOLIDATION I Colorado Road to Form an Alliance With the Giant and Thus WorkOut Work-Out its Salvation = Heaiis Building into Salt lake Trunk Line and Western Heads Meeting f on Tronic I DiscussionsB 0 Gets the Pitts burg Western Work on Southern i South-ern Pacific Railroad Notes V Denver Colo July 2iAn alliance between the Santa Fe and Denver Rio Grande railroads which will result re-sult In a practical union of the two systems Js It Is reported about to be i formed Thedetails of the union are now being worked out by financiers oC the two corporations and according to I report another summer will not have passed before the coalition Is completed CThe recently announced construction plans for the Rio Grande for the extension ex-tension from Durango south and then over Into Utah are said to l > ea part of the scheme The Rio Grande will extend ex-tend its line southwest from this point until It reaches the Colorado river and will follow the river down to Williams Ariz possibly going down the canyon Itself At Williams it will unite with the Santa Fe thus establishing through connections with the Pacific coast If the above should prove to be correct cor-rect and It Is entirely plausible It would mean another great transcontinental transconti-nental road In Utah Ever since the Colorado Midland deal was made the Denver Rio Grande has been looking forward to some move that would offset off-set the advantages gained by Its Colorado Colo-rado rival and Its extension to Salt 0 Lake has been frequently talked of The Santa Fe having Its own line from Chicago to the Gulf Chicago to Denver Den-ver and on to San Francisco could by entering Salt Lake and Ogden become the dictator in Western railroad affairs fi position of the first importance |