| Show = GOULD DID NOT BUY THE ROAD But His Refusal MaKes It Possible for Moffat to Extend Line to Sail Lake City f I For seventeen years tho people of Colorado Colo-rado luivo wondered why the Colorado F i Eastern Railway company operated a road fit a coat of 25 a day when the receipts all told amounted to ICRK than I a day rime problem him al lost been solved Tho company owned rights or way worth probably 001000 and to suspend sus-pend operations meant to lose tho fran chluc Purchasers or the property have been hard to md until now rrom the fact that tho owners had nothing to sell except rights or way and a little real estate ana neither has neon of any value I cue Denver INorthwestern Cs Invlllu la 1 about td begin the construction work on Its line tram Denver to Sail Lake and chic uilcngo Rock Island Paeillc company wants a right of way Into Denver Den-ver and na a result he two roads have purchased the Colorado i Eastern which nao a moat Intcrcutlng history lima road wan built In 16K from Elyria a suburb of Denver I to time Scranlcn coal Holds ulxteen nillea east of Denver Thy company before building the road secured se-cured several thousand acres of land which contained millions of Ions of coal and for a time It looked as 1C the mar I KCL would be Hooded but before thu world knew what had happened the railroad rail-road company was buying coal to burn In Its ono lone engine and 1L ling done no ever wince Great bodies of this Scranton Scran-ton coal here opened up and It appeared to be the boat on earth but almost Immediately Im-mediately after Il was exposed to thu weather the muff went through a chemical chem-ical process similar to the slackening of burnt limestone Scientists were puzzled and the only conclusion they could reach was that nature In her dealings with that particular portion of tho earth hud not done her whole duty In other wcrda I that the material has not yet rna nircd and that It will be hundreds oC years before It Is available When It Is ready for use there will bo enough to l cupply the whole Stale of Colorado for a century The railroad had hardly boon finished before this startling announcement announce-ment was made public A million dollars dol-lars had been expended Tim franchise was granted with the UiulcrgtnndliiK that the property was continuously In operation opera-tion and from that day to this with few I exceptions the ono train consisting of a dinky engine a combination coach apt a Hat car has made a trip to tho IClyrla coal hells and return every twcnlr our hours Hundred and hundreds of times the engineer anti firemen made up both crew and passengers From the HrKt of December 1SOS until the last of TUnrch JSS9 I it Is said the train didnt make a single l through trip The snow during those months was from ten to forty foot deep all over the mountains of Colorado and for three months not a run was made Ono enure week of the time tho train and crew were lost and searching parties were sent out In JSS8 Mr Jay Gould made a trip to Colorado with the tom u of securing aright a-right of way Into Denver for the Missouri Paclllc and probably but for one little Incident his road would today bo running Into Denver and the Idea of the Denver Northwestern Pacific might never have been conceived Mr Could had heard of the C E and determined to buy It One mornlru he notified the officials that ho would take a trip over IU The engineer got a tip lie knew that his rolling stock war llrrht and that the rails didnt weigh but eighteen pounds I There was only one thing to do if he wanted to avoid a wreck and glvo Gould a good impression of the road and that was TO run hIs train not much faster than a horse car The ofll clals of the road and the then great railroad rail-road Icing got aboard But a few miles had been covered when Mr Gould who stood on the tint car net cuylnc asked time fIIIlnccr to tom time to rUn ftar I hm there wat no etrtlmc0 Sen = o In time wror S seed 10 or three l tlmen 11 rro ° f stilted Gou101 that the train t hI run faster but if 1 tlG cIIblncr kuowln whnl time result would < ho kept OUIIl the even tcnot oC his Pull that throtllewldeopcn n n open lrrr nail jp demanded Gould und the let hlr obeyed The cnRlm idiot iilonr the g tru n the at a fcnrfiil rate SoinctimSi lruc ti the was a foot from the ralln nnd tiJ that car It was high up in the air i tl111 ncallx I point tho track humped up a little cosh i i I than orl at other polnta and when P car struck that Mr Gould thl fic head 11 hen ho aros iho Htooi On hili Htol1l1cll and nil on bnilrmlinc train bid 1Jrlncr had gathered arommriLding lime loolcll at the engineer and then him lIfl know how and when La buy iallro IL hut I ten l kmnosy nl1lhfrlE ahout L r llJrOl 1p rln You eau thl1 CIIIIIO an fn self belt hl sure you rust Il to Il11lt y r townrel vor Irmn that day until 11 o He never Bpoko another 0 i word also Lot 1nmYing tin Colorado I Eastern Tho building or thu Donvo western means blir things for north TJin road Is to shorten tho 11lanco COlorado Lake 150 to 2W mllcn and It will travcrit n large territory III nortllwCSlQtl1 trncr1 1 Culorad rich in mineral fie cnn3trllc0I1 tunnel along the line will r lulrc two or ago a hair years lllJ |
