Show BIG LAND DEAL Largest One Connected With Opening of Territory Along Idoffat Road Just Completed Tit IL511 iV 12 S P1CCIA L Denver r Colo Sept 2One o the biggest deals connected with the opening open-ing of the new territory along the route of the Moffat road was completed today James A Pearce turned over papers and deeds for 72000 acres of Hind In Grand county ruining for twenty miles west of the main range through which the railroad tunnels The purchasers are capitalists from Boston and London whose jdentlty Is kept secret The conFid1 a lon Is In the neighborhood of 100000 The land corn PulSeS oil ccil and timber sections and oi anc with the advent of the railroad Is lo be developed on a Inige scale I Pearce secured some of these lands months before the route of the Moffat otat I road was known and In order to get ahead of others made snowshoe trips Into the country D J1 Moffat tonight confirmed the news of the land transaction but said that neither he personally nor the railroad rail-road company were interested financially finan-cially in It Mr M off at also stated tonight to-night that the road would not pass through Steamboat Springs |