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Show NEW RAILROAD RUMORS. Wo hopo that tho latest railroad report, re-port, which tolls of an allianco botwoen the Clark and Gould interests, may provo to bo correct. This report concedes con-cedes that Senator Clark has obtained control of tho Great Western railway, from Chioago to Denvdr. That rond would need but little construction to bo a complete and favorablo lino between thoso two cities. Mr. Clark is also said to havo bought largo interests in tho Denver & Northwestern road, dom-monly dom-monly known as the Moffat road, which is under construction from Denver to Salt Lake, and which is being pushed with all the onorgy and rapidity of which tho project ia capable. If it ia truo that Senator Clark has obtained the Great Western and has Bufliciont interest in the Moffat road to give him a potent voice in its affairs, ho will havo a lino of commanding importance im-portance from Chicago to tho Pacific. It will bo by all odds the shortest and most attractive route for all eastern travel to Southern California. It has been manifest all tho time that tho Moffat road would need connections, con-nections, both eastward and westward. It has been assumed recently that this is a Gould enterpriso, which Mr. Gould would use in connection with his Western Pacific, now building between thiB city and San Francisco, which, with tho Moffat road, would givo him tho shortest line from tho Mississippi river to San Francisco. Whether these reports will eventually turn out to be as now stated, wo shall, all. know after a while. Probably thorc is something in tliem; possibly they may bo exactly fpio as given. At any rate, it is evident that gront things will bo doing now in a short.-timo short.-timo in tho railroad world, from mid-continent mid-continent westward. Tho Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul ib building to tho Northwestern- coast. Tho Chicago & Nortbwesteriv-has -lfegotiated $100,-' 000,000 of ita'capital -stock for railroad 1 extension. It will without doubt also build to tho Northwestern const, as its policy haB always been one of olosa competition with the Chicago, Milwaukee Milwau-kee & St. Paul, aud undoubtedly both of these roads must come to Salt Lake in the near future in order to get their connections with tho Pacific- Coast lower down, with Portland, San Francisco, Fran-cisco, and southern California. Salt Lake offers tho choice of four routes, covering all of these points; the Oregon Short. Line to Portland, the Western Pacific and tho Southern Pacific Pa-cific to San Francisco, and the Salt Lako routo to southern California. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and the Chicago & Northwestern havo both completed lines far this side of Omaha. The completion of their lines to Salt Lake would give them n thousand miles moro of transcontinental haul in passengers and freight, besides affording afford-ing tho choico of connections wostwnrd to any desired poinr. The Rock Island also must come either on its own track or by connections ah Denver as heretofore. here-tofore. This city unquestionably must be tho .mooting point of all these" transcontinental lines, including thoso uamed, as well as tho Burlington. As stated above, tho era of railroad construction is now fairly on, nnd Salt. Lake will cortainly bo tho focus of an immeuso amount of thi3 construction, construc-tion, and tho goal which all must strive presently to reach. |