Show STOP THE BUHlNGTON Reasons Why Rival Roads 5 Are Alter It l NOT BEEN SOLO HOWEVER Negotiations Entirely to Keep tho Big System Fiona Aggressive Work I in Extending Westward and if It Keeps Its Stock Will eeps on Change I Hands J J Hill Emphatically 1 I Denies That He Is After Burlington George Gould to Havo One Big System In the SouthwestNotes r New York March 19rhe rise In Burlingtons shares continued today without actual developments to account I ac-count for the heavy advance In thC I strike A wellinformed authority in Burlington affairs said today that them I Is no longer icason to believe that any change will be effected In the independent inde-pendent Hiatus of the property or that there will be any change in control One consequence the episode of the past few months Is thought likely to be less aggressiveness In extensions by Burlington It will bo given every facility for Instance to reach the coast by existing routes but any effort to reach the coast by new construction would arouse antagonism on tho part of the largo financial Interests which might end in Burlingtons passing Into I new control Aa the situation has now developed such a change Is not likely President James J 11111 of the Great Northern railway who Is at the Hotel I Nethcrland In this city denies positively I posi-tively that he Is seeking the control of the Burlington system I I It Is not true Mr Hill saidthat the Great Northern with the Northern Pacific has either purchased a controlling con-trolling Interest In tho Chicago Burlington Bur-lington Quincy railroad or that we have negotiated a lease of that railroad rail-road We have secured no interest in Burlington stock through Mr Morgan or Mr Harrlman We are attending to our own business In our own way and find that the successful management of one railroad can keep us busy |