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Show Railroad Notes. The Rock Island-'Frlsco Is surely ambitious. am-bitious. What with the Goulds Western Pacific, the Moores's Boise line, the Hill steamers to tho Orient and StllweU's Moxlcnn coast road, the other lines to the Paclile will have to keep a sharp lookout. But then the country is growing and tho vnat area which In tho halls of Congress a few decades de-cades ago was spoken of as being utterly worthless has successfully supported a scoro of through lines, so there Is plenty of room for othcrH. From Memphis to Boise, however. Is not so far as from Baltimore to Salt Lako. so Gould still has the beat of It. However, the Rock Island, should It over reach Boise, would not stop there, but would continue to the const. It Is now certainly up to tho Northwestern Northwest-ern to build from Casper, which could be mado tho shortest lino to Boise. You cannot keop a good railroad man' down. J Stanley Brown hau resigned as as-Blatant as-Blatant to the president of the Long Island railroad. Ho formerly held tho ; samo position In tho Union Pacific and Short Line offices In New ork. Mr. Brown, who married Miss Molly Garfield Is well known hero owing to his frequent trips with the Ilnrrlman party. W. II. Emmons has been appointed advertising ad-vertising agent of tho Colorado Midland, with office at Denver. It will bo of Interest to note the comparisons. com-parisons. The now Rock Ieland lino via Colby. Kan., from Chicago to Bolso will bf tm miles. Tho distance via the present pres-ent Overland route Is 19SS miles, so tho Mooro brothers will have to build somo cut-offs Immediately to compete with tho Short Line. However, the- Short Line can possibly build the main lino over tho hill into Bolso and cut down tho dlatanco somo miles. |