OCR Text |
Show DENVER CONFERENCE WAS WITHOUT RESULT ' , DENVER, Feb; 25. The trafflo con- IH Terence Just closed between officials ot the Colorado Springs & Cripple Crook , District railway and the Denver & Southwestern railway, owning tho Mid- land Terminal and the Florence & Crip- tM pie Creek railroads, competing lines in IH the Cripple Creek district, was, accord- Ing to one who speaks authoritatively, . without result. The traffic agreement JM which expired February 1st last Was jH not renewed, each demanding a greater ' , percentage of the earnings. As a result 1 of the failure to arrlvo at an agree- ment both sides aro preparing for an- ( VM other rate war. 1 IH The Denver & Southwestern Is an In-dependont In-dependont corporation which Is owned largely In New- York City, as Is almost ' tM all the bonds of both companies. About 1 ' IH eighteen months ago the competing I IH lines waged a disastrous rate war ex- 1 tending over a period of several . IH months, and the bondholders of the 1 Denver & Southwestern took over that corporation. , |