Show BIDS ARE CLOSED Tent Firms Want to Build First Section of Itloffats Road Dtnvcr Doc ljThe time for receiving receiv-ing bids for the construction of thlrty tvcn mill 3 of the Denver Northwest Y to Pacific railroad extending tram rarda to a point five miles beyond TIol1lrivllle expired today About tWnt bids were iccclvcd It Is cx Petcii Uiut the examination of the hid I will be completed and the contracts let lthln a week Oklahoma Is Interested I Guthrie Okltu Dec Ju iThe incorporators Incor-porators of the EnidSan Diego Pacific Pa-cific ralltcvid recently chartered are receiving petitions from many cities anton an-ton In western Oklahoma asking hat the Him be constructed and offering I offer-ing all manner of Inducements In order Lo secure It The survey through Ohm loma as far as Woodward Is practically complete Railroad Notes The Railway Age illustrates an cx musllve article on the Omaha shops You can go to Ogden almost any hour from 7 a in to 1 a in the next morn lag ngH H M Gushing IK 1 back WT Rldd 18 J CUShIng the Incoming Macca bees Local holdorn of Denver Rio Grande preferred will get a 2V6 per cent dividend divi-dend for ClirlstmaM General Superintendent J H Young I of the Rio Grande Westcin went to Grand Junction yesterday on No 2 I The Kansas City Mexico Orient Is almost a local road with KO many veilknown local railroaders at Its head What with Dickinson Purdy and larding the Stllwell road will be operated op-erated on Al principles when It Is competed com-peted In Kansas City a now railroad journal Jour-nal has been started under the patronage patron-age of the Railroad club It is called the Kansas City Gateway and Is a fine publication H T Huson vicepresident of the Pacific Coast Construction company of Portland is the latest contractor to go over the Moffat route preparatory to submitting a bid Judge J W Judd formerly an eminent emi-nent member of the Salt Lake bar has recently delivered before the Tennessee Bar association an address Can Congress Con-gress Constitutionally Empower the interstate Commerce Commission to Fix Railroad Rates In a masterly way he argues that It cannot that the commission Is an administrative body solely and Congress alone has the power pow-er to fix the rates which the commission commis-sion shall see to it that they are properly prop-erly carried Into effect The address will prove Interesting to railroad men generally I |