Show I I NEW DENVER RAILROAD 6 < Southern Midland Southwestern V South-western San Pedro Idz I V z DEAL SAID TO BE COMPLETED i fi 1ri i The South Platte CutOft to Be Built 4I and Short Lino to Salt Lako Assured As-sured Details of the Latest Denver t Railroad Situation Will Tap the J I1i VFamous Mining Camps of Colorado U Southern and Midland to Be I J Given a Western Outlet Which n h They So Much DesireNotes ti iJI The D nv News has a very Interesting ii Inter-esting article on the railroad situation YiceS an extract of which was printed In The Tribune on Friday Tho article Pinr In full Is as follows V tni1 Arrangements have been made with fS Senators Clark Kearns and others interested z in-terested In the new Salt LakeLos An V gelas road which will insure direct nt railroad connection with the Pacific t iI coast The project is one of the most u hni V gigantic railroad schemes developed In I tV the West since the construction of the S first overland roads The position of aJ4pi the Denver Southwestern in the situation ai sit-uation Is primarily a small one as Its atir Interests are confined merely to tho rA V fight between the Denver Southwestern e fCJYct South-western roads and the Cripple Creek Short Line Tho Importance of the dlft 511L Cripple Creek business and the necessity neces-sity oC rapid communication between eivi Denver and the gold mine have resulted result-ed in the combination of Interests between 1r 1 I tween tho Colorado Southern and the v Southwestern company toward the t construction of the cutoff The Colorado ard Colo-rado Southern owners have for sometime some-time felt their dependence on the Rio o ii Orande owIng to the lack of an outlet west of Grand Junction and It is with i C a view of establishing an Independent oil j line to the Mormon capital that the oL deal Is being promoted ta Frank Trumbull president of tho a C r Colorado Southern company returned Vo nrVlrz re-turned yesterday from New York city xtii1 where he has been In consultation 3 ih with William KGIllett and other stockholders aruf stock-holders of the Denver Southwest r4sh ern and the deal for the construction zetli of the cutoff is understood to have tse been practically completed The new er1c road will give the Colorado Southern South-ern together with the Midland and 1 Midland Terminal I a direct line to the Mr gold camp and will enable the Colorado Colo-rado Southern with the Midland to 7SX secure a direct line from Denver to the west via Lake George on tho tk s South Park line and the Colorado Midland 53 n Mid-land The latter road is owned half 1 ls and half by the Colorado Southern e I and the Rio Grande which warrants fii the Southern Jn making an expenditure Isi ii to develop the property etik Tho construction cC the Platte canyon cutoff Is by no means a new aiiriij thing It having been broached several ttti1 years ago and at one time it was rk d practically settled that the Colorado t Southern would construct It at once Tho surveys have all been made and the construction of the entire new e r track would It Is estimated be less htI than 3ODO000 Tho route to be followed I lb fol-lowed Is up Goose creek on the South 1 Park and across the divide to Lake r1z George Tho saving of distance on the ii V route to Cripple Creek fwlll amount Jo 5 FtL1 about fifty miles over the present route c1 The announced construction of the V V cutoff will probably revive the old V project of the Rio Grande for a cutoff cut-off from Accqula to Sallda This ii F would aftord the Rio Grande a direct A Ot route weat t and ssould result in competition V com-petition between the Colorado Southern 1 South-ern and tho Gould rood V V |