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Show MOFFAT USES STRONG WORDS Denounces Enemy to Prosperity, Asserts His Ownership, and Denies Vbsolutely Report Re-port of Sale. Banker and Railroad Man of Denver Conies Out in Straightforward Statement on Latest Rumor Boms papers In different pan of the country csjn out last week with glaring headlines and sensational slnrlcB about the Harrlman crowd buying the Moffat rood for ff.M&OMi which would bo at tho rate of tltO.OOO per mile. The story originated In the Denver Fcl. which starts most nf the red-Ink stories In Denver, even thuugh they are direct blows to the tOWn'l Interests All the ..lh. r papent contain the denlnl from Mr Moffat, and this Is the article appearing In tho Denver News; A wanton and untruthful attack on the Moffat road wss published In lout evening's Denver Post to the effect that Mr. Moffat wua trying to sell the line and that It would m vcr be finished beyond a point Somewhl re In Routt county Mr Moffat stales lhat the article was a fabrication In srhols and In part, and the eltl-xans eltl-xans of Denver agree that II coutd have been the work of none but a fool or a person deliberately delib-erately trying to prevent the building of the line. "There Ik absolutely no truth In any alleged 'system' trying to prevent my finishing the road." said Mr. Moffat la.-it evrnlng. "It Is Seven -eighths mine, and will be until somebody some-body offers me a profit of IMWO.OOO or J3.0on.ooo for the work to which we have ben put In building it." "Is then, any truth In the tdatemont that Philadelphia. Fro Ideoce and Holland tltian-ilirs tltian-ilirs ugre.-.l to take the bonds Of the Muff at road, nnd then booked out becauNe New York financiers, determined to crush your road, forced them to?" Mr Moffat smiled It seal US almost ridiculous ridicu-lous to deny any such wild yarn." he continued. con-tinued. "There Is not a bond of the Moffat road fur sale to anybodv. There are no bond! to sell "Nohixly. not even the Sheriff. an take this road from me. I can flnlbh It without the slstance of t.ig railroad pampaniea I have started it. and will complete it. unless, as I aid befnn , somebi.ly offers me enough profit tO H-dl It. "It can be bought nt cost now. can It? Who says ao Well, I never heard of that before. Furthermore, the road. Instead of being an elephant ele-phant "n anybody's hands. In now paying running run-ning expenses. Why should we wunt to give Il away?" Meanwhile the reading of the sensational Article predicting the doom of Mr. Moffat's lifelong ambition whs proceeding. All the while Mr Moftat smiled and made sarcastic references to -he story and Its author "Too bad." ho mused, "lhat I cannot run my busl-m busl-m so to suit the people who t un that newspaper." news-paper." Is It true that Rock Island and r.urllngton ffflclala bav gone over th.- Moffat road and examined it carefully?" "Yea; that's the only thing In all that mass of Words that Is true. . year ago. It must be. President l.nree of th Rm k Island w nt over our line and pronounced It the best -built road he ever imw That STSS a real compliment, for Mr. lyoree was formerly chief engineer of the Pennsylvania system. "Sine, then officials of the Uurllngton and other railroads have gone over th" new line I don't know that they examined BVSTy bridge nnd tie they aaw: probably they looked over thing pretty carefully, for that Is what railroad rail-road men tour n.-w roads for. If they wanted ni w Ideas land they all do) they probably hunted for them." Talking about the debt of his road. Mr. M'.fful mid :hat at present It consisted of a bill for the m w snowplcugh recently bought. ' That Id II his not been presented, and when II Is It will be paid." he added, with a Kitlsfl.-l look. Rock work Is going on briskly, and gangs of men are busiy at Hot Sulphur Springs, doing what they can at this time of th year "We du not Inten t to shovel through snowdrifts snow-drifts In order to get 10 the earth, though." added Mr .Moffat. "Wc nr stin very muck on earth, and will le more bo hnn the weather moderates ao that we can get down to good construction work again There may . r may not be a system of frenzied fren-zied finance. Lawson In as crazy as the man who Is busy selling my road, and who sees enemies en-emies from all Over the country trying to riiish me. If this be 'Isxtlng' Denver, let us have an end to It. If you us.- anything In reference to this matter, be jmre to make It as strong a .knlal us possible No truth whatsoever what-soever In It." Railroad Notes. The Gould iiiii s have another offji lol In the person of li. H. Mann, signal engineer. Salt Lake Is destined to become n storm cen-P cen-P r ns a big trafllc suit, with rebates as the chef d'ouvre, will come up shortly J. M. ;rut--r. whom tho Denver Post sent to Salt Iake. has gnn to the Uurllngton as general gen-eral m.inngiT. Sometimes u lnst moy hurt n man. The Salt Lake R'.utr's order fnr curs with the St. I.ulu Car OOmpany Includes ten coaches, eight chair cars, ten baggage earn uiid eight postal cars Thev will bo used for the vestibule limited trains. PstU) Morton Is being heard of more fre-luentlv fre-luentlv than was lie- caie uhn he was a vice-president vice-president of the Santa Fe, n In those days there wer so many ranking trafnc exports In the country thut he did not secure nu opportunity. oppor-tunity. Henry A'. Poor who died at npwvviine. Masa, a tew days ago. was the find n.-c-retary ..f the Union Paolflc He was f: .-aiR or nK., mid one of th" very cnrle reporters In th-COUntri th-COUntri a bo started (h. American Itallrosd Jouinul In 1M9 |