Show APOSTLE SMOOT BACK Says Los Angeles Line Will Surely Be Built WAS < AT DIRECTORS MEETING Also Believes That Part of the Short Line South and the Utah Pacific I Will Be Bought and That the Line o t Will Be Independent Player of Santa Fe Heslgns President Burt Inspecting Union Pacific Messrs Babcock and Heints Return Railroad Notes i Apostlo Hoed Smoot returned from the East yesterday afternoon and after j a short visit in Salt Lake went to his ionic In Provo lie was in attendance at the late meeting of the directors of I the San Pedro Los Angeles Salt Lake Railway company In SU Louis mid says he has not the slightest doubt but that the road will bo built and that 1 It will be an Independent line from Salt Lake to the coast He also believes that It will absorb part of the Oregon Short Line south of this city together with the Utah Pacific Askod ns to whether he had read the I story concerning the alleged letting of I the 50500000 contract by the Union J acllle for a cutoff he smiled and said ho had adding still further But I bHicvr It purely an imaginary vision I ot the contractor Why on earth I hhould the Union Pacific pay such a fabulous sum for nothing That is I 4 hat hey t would do 1C I that scheme vis carried out There is nothing in I the Union Pacific cutoff story pin I jour faith to the proposition that the Los Angeles road will be built I Apostle Smoot visited Washington whlIc av ay and met many of the leading I lead-ing politicians who spoke in praise of Vt ih for going Republican He doC do-C that the Itory printed 1 in a I morning paper that ho would resign his apost1e hip to run for the Senate jvas the veriest rot Rio Grande Western Earnings Kio Grande Western gross earnings for the third week of December were I JSG700 an increase of S2200 for the three weeks of the month 235200 an increase in-crease of G700 For the period from I July 1st to December 22nd 2412200 I an Increase of 2S5CS3 I I President Burt Inspects Line President Burt and other officials of I I I the Union Pacific are In Laramle on a l epf ial train Their visit Is for the purpose of making an inspection of the 1 new line over the hill They vill take carriages and drive over the new grade I slowly for the purpose of approving the 1 work The grade Is read for the laying of the steel l with the exception oC the section of which the Sherman hill tunnel Is the principal contract Ono traclclaylng machine has arrived I and another is on the way and the hope Is that the traclclaylng will be begun j very soon after the first of the year New Colorado Line Pueblo Colo Dec722ThS Colorado Wyoming Railroad company a connection > con-nection of the Colorado Fuel Iron company today gavo the contract to Orman Crook of which Govclect Hunan Is a member to build twenty three miles oC track from Trinidad up UK Pcrgatolre river to Weston Work will begin within a week Player Has Resigned Topeka Kan Dec 22Il Is reliably S j ported that John Player superin umknt of machinery for the entire yurii Fe system mJ resign about J imiiry 1st on account of ill health 3Ii I will be succeededby rR P C San r llr i son the present assistant superintendent superin-tendent Mr Player Just returned from a three weeks trip to California where I ho had gone for his health Mr Player 1ms been with the Santa Fe for about ton ears Railroad Notes = funeral Superintendent Calvin Is In Idaho C jeneral Superintendent Welby Is I home from thc south The Union Pacific IK I using Its ballast I car ns temporary coal cars o 1 The electric headlight proving a great success on local roads r Attorney C O Whlttcmoro of the to Los Angeles road wIH be home today The rules about persons riding on freight trains is to be more rigidly enforced en-forced James J Hills presence In New York c hue caused many rumors to be floated Jn Wall street < < abopt Northern consolidations 1 consoli-dations t Director Thomas Kearns who has r J i been at the St Louis meeting of the 1 Han Pedro Los Angeles Suit Lake ti J IK expected home today Jot 1 CMntura a German being f > o much omhufled oer Utah as told by Mr 13 j lleintr In many books and leaflets has describing composed a pianoforte piece de8crlblI j i Xtah and a trip over the road which lie inscribes to Mr IlolnUi Traffic Manager Babcock and Gen rrme eral Passenger Agent Helnlz of the Rio Grande Western returned ycstcr Uay from a hurried businesS trip on the coast They visited their agencies In San Francisco and Los Angeles in the Mr lleliitz says all latter city al later cl 1lr Los An j are talking of the proposed geles road |