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Show ROCK ISLAND Mil WEST lack of Denver-Boise Line. . . Route of This New Line From Colby, Kan., Given in Detail to Boise. Crosses Othor Big Lines and Taps the Very Heart of Wyoming on Its Way to Idaho Capital. Tho Rock Island system la behind the Colorado, Wyoming & Idaho road, Just Incorporated. The route of the line, tho Incorporators and tho general tendency of tho wholo Incorporation In-corporation points to this Important fact For months a railroad hna been talked of ,ln Bolso and an emissary of somo party or parties has been in that city securing Inducements to offer tho road or building Into Idaho's capital and thus placing it on a main line for the tirst time. Boise Is in Luck. Tho people of Boise aro to be congratulated congratu-lated on the news that the Rock Island Is behind tho project, ns that Is ono of the big systems of tho world. Independent and working to form a through transcontinental transconti-nental system over Its own rails. Hero Is tho route of the lino and any person by looking up Colby, Kan., on the Rock Island map and following the line as Indicated, can see at a glance that tho big road presided over by the youthful Napoleon of the rail. Ben Wlnchell. Is trying try-ing to work westward In direct opposition to tho railroads owned by the larger-grouped larger-grouped syndicates. Leave Colby. Kan., on the Rock Island, cross the Burlington tracks at St. Francis, Fran-cis, Kan., and Ilolyoko, Colo.; cross tho Union Pacific at Crook, Colo., and Sidney, Nob.; then tap Freeport and Gcring on tho North Platte, and enter Wyoming many miles north of the Union Pnclflo along tho valley of tho Mitchell to Fort Leonard, branch to Cnsper. the coming capital of Wyoming; from Fort Leonard westerly via Albany, Sweetwater. Carbon. Natrona. Fremont and Uinta counties to the Idnho line; cross the Snake valley lines of tho Oregon Short JUno and thence to Boise. From Galveston to Boise. The Rock Island will then reach from Memphis. Tcnn.. Chicago. 111.. St. Louis. Mo.. El Pnso and Galveston with Intermediate Inter-mediate points through to Boise, Ida. Here aro tho Incorporators of the now road: Mooro Brothers, who financed tho Rock Iflland; E. S. Chonoweth, Herman Knhn nnd John D. Mitchell. Possible this Is ono reason why tho Oregon Short Line started the work on twenty miles of tho Minidoka & Southwestern this year and why tho talk has been of making It a big cut-off on lines detailed In these columns col-umns two months ago. |